This shows how a water lily plant growing in 88 days from a tuber to blooming. The chosen variety was a cold hardy Nymphaea ...

Sunny days and warmer temperatures greeted us as we passed the solstice and entered the new season. Nature is rapidly revealing the summer to us. Birds that returned from migration and sang on ...

In a recent discovery poised to enhance agricultural resilience, scientists have demystified the elaborate cold resistance mechanisms of the white water lily—a plant that flourishes in the frigid ...

The white water lily is a special plant that has special requirements. Yet it gives, too. The lily, a native plant, needs quiet waters, not too deep, and a silty bottom to live in certain lakes, ponds ...

With the water still high on the Mississippi River, including at my backwater cabin, things are not normal in terms of plants and aquatic critters I would usually see. Come to think of it, I am not ...

Monet loved these summer flowers, and you will too. Water lilies, plants in the genus Nymphaea, are aquatic blooms that grow in ponds and water gardens. Their green lily pads spread out across the ...

In southern Alabama or southern Georgia, seeing an American alligator gobble up a beaver amid white water lilies would be a memorable sight, and an entirely natural one. To see a Nile crocodile chomp ...