Price list 2008 - Container plants -

A) Nymphaeas and deep aquatics in 16cm black pots:

Botanical name Description Unit price

Aponogeton distachyos white R 42.00
Hydrocles nymphoides water poppy R 60.00
Nymphaea marliacea alba large white R 60.00
Nymphaea marliacea albida small white R 60.00
Nymphaea marliacea rosea light pink R 60.00
Nymphaea Col. A.J.Welsch spiky yellow R 60.00
Nymphaea chromatella yellow R 60.00
Nymphaea capensis (nouchali) mauve, lilac R 60.00
Nymphaea Mrs. Richmond medium pink R 70.00
Nymphaea sioux orange, copper R 70.00
Nymphaea perfect pink medium pink R 90.00
Nymphaea attraction large light red R 90.00
Nymphoides indica star shape, yellow R 60.00


B) Marginal aquatics, floating assets & bog plants:

Botanical name Description Unit price

Acorus gramineus variegata 4kg japan rush var. R 18.00
Alisma plantago-aquatica 8kg water plantain R 55.00
Apium berucca 4kg water fern R 30.00
Colocasia esculentes 8kg pending, velvet R 39.00
Iris pseudacorus 8kg yellow flag R 30.00
Iris species 8kg mauve,blue,white R 50.00
Zantedeschia aethiopica 8kg arum lily R 50.00


Subject to availability
New stock will arrive next week, so place your orders

Please post some images for us that do not know the plants.

There are photo's of the lily's on my website at http://www.koionline.co.za/lily.htm

I will post photos of the other plants in due course.

The photos are incorrect.
The white "lily" is infact a white lotus, the yellow lotus is a tropical waterlily and the red lily is a night blooming tropical cultivar possibly red flare.
Although the photos are of tropical lilies none of your lilies are actually tropical cultivars except the Nymphaea nouchali (previously capensis) which is classed as a tropical spieces.

Thanks Gerald, I will look into the matter. I got the photos from my supplier and I think the idea was more about giving an indication of the looks of the various colours and shapes. I am not an expert on the subject and found quite a lot of conflicting viewpoints on the net.

As my lilys are starting to bloom now, I will take photos of the actual flowers.

It seems like you are an expert. One of the questions that arise quite often is what the difference is between:

1. Tropical lilys
2. Non tropical lilys
3. Lotus

Could you perhaps enlighten us on the subject?

No problem
Tropical lilies can generally be distinguished by their flowers which are more dramatic than hardy types and are held high above the water on stems which can be 20 cm above the water surface. In addition to their blooms being larger the colour range is greater including blues and purples which are not colours found in hardy lilies. The day blooming tropicals can be divided into those which are viviparous, producing young plants at the top of the petiole which float away as the leaf to which their attached dies, and those which are non viviparous. Viviparous tropicals are hardier than the non viviparous types.
Locally (Cape Town) available tropical lilies include:
Tina -a smallish blue
Hillary -a white blushed pink
Zanzibar -a blue improved nouchali
Ruby - a red
In addition to the day blooming tropicals there are night blooming tropical lilies these are yet more tender and more exotic. Red Flare being one of the better reds.

The hardy lilies that are available locally are generally old cultivars developed by a french nurseryman at the turn of the 20th century Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac these are still sort after varieties.
Amongst your hardies, Sioux is actually a changeable, flowers open yellow orange on day one and turn to orange red by the third day.
Colonel A.J.Welch is also the one hardy that is viviparous producing new plants from the old blossoms.

Lotuses generally refer to the genus Nelumbo there are two spieces N.Lutea the yellow American Lotus and N. nucifera the oriental lotus all other lotuses referred to - the blue Nile lotus and Indian Lotuses are actually Nymphaeas (water lilies). They are large round leaved bog plants as opposed to deep water aquatics like water lilies. There are many cultivars available from dwarf to large plants in white through to red with single or double blooms. I have so far only seen the spieces, Nelumbo nucifera here in nurseries.
Perhaps they are more suited to growing in a Koi pond as they can be better protected in the shallows.

Some of my waterplants in bloom. They are only starting to bloom now in the Cape.







Yellow water Iris



Blue water Iris