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Carolina Sunset
Here’s a gorgeous peach water lily that belongs in just about every water garden. It makes a big impact — the leaves are nearly 12 inches across.
Plant spread: To 5 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 4-10
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a hardy and fragrant, day-blooming, peach-color variety.
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Blue Beauty
This stunning selection offers huge flowers that are nearly a foot across. The color varies from pale lilac to beautiful deep blue.
Plant spread: To 7 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 10-11
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a fragrant, tropical, day-blooming, blue-color variety.
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Arc en Ciel
We love this variety not just for its lovely white flowers, but also for the delightfully variegated foliage.
Plant spread: To 5 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 4-10
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a hardy type with white flowers and variegated foliage.
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Red Cup
‘Red Cup’ is one of the deepest colored, night-blooming water lilies we know of. It’s a heavy bloomer and is graced with an apple-spice fragrance.
Plant spread: To 6 feet
Bloom time: Night
Zones: 10-11
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a tropical variety with fragrant red flowers that open at night.
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Mrs. George H. Pring
This scented, night-blooming water lily can send up four to six blooms per flowering cycle. The big leaves measure up to 16 inches across, making this a great choice for larger ponds.
Plant spread: To 6 feet
Bloom time: Night
Zones: 10-11
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a tropical variety with fragrant white flowers that open at night.
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Colorado
This award-winning beauty offers red-mottled foliage: in addition to its lovely and profuse salmon blooms, it has a lovely scent.
Plant spread: To 10 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 4-11
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a hardy variety with fragrant salmon-pink flowers that are open during the day.
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Afterglow
This cultivar is known for its intoxicating fragrance and mass numbers of blooms over a long season.
Plant spread: To 8 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 10-11
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a tropical variety with boldly colored coral-pink flowers that are open during the day.
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George L. Thomas
This gorgeous, heavy-blooming selection offers rich, double pink flowers to 5 inches across.
Plant spread: To 12 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 4-11
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a hardy and floriferous pink-flowering variety.
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Shirley Bryne
We’re fond of this selection because it blooms well even in part shade and has a great fragrance.
Plant spread: To 5 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 10-11
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a tropical variety with fragrant bright pink flowers that are open during the day.
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Rembrandt
This compact selection is perfect for container water gardens. It offers boldly colored flowers and a great scent.
Plant spread: To 3 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 3-9
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a dwarf, hardy red-flowering variety for containers or small ponds.
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Peach Glow
‘Peach Glow’ offers creamy-peach blooms that are held high above the water. It also bears red-mottled foliage, extending its interest.
Plant spread: To 12 feet
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 4-10
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a hardy peach-flowering variety.
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Luciana
Free-flowering and fragrant, this variety produces large, 7-inch-wide flowers that appear throughout the season above bronzy-green foliage.
Plant spread: To 4 feet across
Bloom time: Day
Zones: 6-9
Fragrant: Yes
Choose It Because: You want a hardy variety with soft-pink flowers that are open during the day.
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