Nymphaea 'Madame Julien Chifflot' is a hardy cultivated water lily with submerged growth and floating leaves and deciduous foliage. It favours a south-facing, sheltered pond site in full sun. Plant in a loam substrate at neutral pH that remains moist but drains; it tolerates typical UK winters (H5). Flowers are produced from June to September.

Nymphaea 'Madame Julien Chifflot' is a hardy water lily for south-facing, sheltered ponds with flowers from June to September.

Nymphaea 'Madame Julien Chifflot' (H)

Water Lily (Nymphaea 'Madame Julien Chifflot') | Pond plant

Nymphaea caerulea, the blue lotus, is an aquatic water lily in the family Nymphaeaceae notable for its blue flowers and floating leaves. It grows with submerged rhizomes and a mix of submerged and floating habit, and the foliage is deciduous. Suited to full sun and ponds or containers with poorly drained clay or loam, it is hardy in UK gardens to H5 and flowers from June to September.

Grow blue lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) in full sun in clay or loam ponds or containers; hardy to H5 and flowering June to September.

Nymphaea is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Nymphaea caerulea (T/D)

Blue lotus | Nymphaea caerulea

Victoria amazonica is a floating waterlily in the family Nymphaeaceae, notable for its surface-forming habit. Native to the Amazonas, it flowers in the UK from July to September and carries deciduous foliage. It prefers full sun and a loam substrate of neutral pH kept moist but well drained, and suits sheltered, south-facing ponds. As a tender plant (H1a), it requires frost-free conditions over winter.

Floating Amazon waterlily from the Amazonas for sheltered, south-facing ponds; flowers July to September and prefers neutral loam kept moist.