Nymphaea ‘Pink Grapefruit’ – Medium Water Lily

Description

So what’s a lily with pink in its name doing over here with the “Peach” lilies, you may be thinking? And compared with the other “Peach” lilies it looks very “pink.” Indeed it does. But when I had it over with the “Pink” lilies it looked very “Peachy.” And when you pick a color on a picture of this flower with a computer color picker it most often comes out a shade of orange.  It’s similar to ‘Colorado’ in that regard – the overall effect is “pinkish” but the underlying colors are shades of orange. Both are Kirk Strawn hybrids and probably closely related. ‘Pink Grapefruit’ is a bigger plant with a little bit bigger flower than ‘Colorado.’ I guess the way to think about this is that some varieties of “Peach” water lily are going to be more on the pink side of the spectrum and others are going to be more on the yellow side of the spectrum.