Nymphaea ‘Pink Beauty’ – Medium Water Lily

Description

For me, this is the quintessential pink water lily. The color is pure pink and that color is uniformly distributed throughout the flower. Most pure pink lilies have odorata rhizomes and do best in large containers or earthen bottom ponds – ‘Pink Beauty’ though has a Marliac rhizome – it grows really well in a small to medium pond or in tubs. Even though it has a Marliac rhizome and was introduced in 1899, it’s not a Marliac creation (indeed Marliac never was able to produce a really good pure pink lily – his pinks tend to be pink and white bicolors). Instead it was created at Dreer Nurseries in New Jersey. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it’s extremely free flowering. Just like many of Marliac’s creations, ‘Pink Beauty’ remains one of the best and most popular pink lilies more than a century after its debut.