Given the bare root one foot deep in the bladderwort pond treatment, a crown of Nymphaea Carolina Sunset chugs up to a blooming size in about a month. That puts it into the robust, healthy disease free category with very little doubt. Always pleasant to see a variety bounce out of quarantine and isolation with the cliched 'right first time' performance

Pale bloom varieties can be a bit hohum tedious when you are familiar with a wide choice, Carolina Sunset has a few subtle features which make it memorable... Elegant marbled lilypads, unusual foliage tones, very round lilypads, symetrical lilypad spread, long lasting tough foliage, excellent bloom to lilypad ratio, consistent steady blooms, heat tolerant, robust in a volatile climate... modest size

Set in a position against a clear blue sky, its combination of lilypad, bloom tone and markings make a bright breezy impression like few others, a rather understated feature which would appeal to folk with hot, blue sky continental Summers.

As Summer warms to hot, the aqeing blooms can throw quite a happy mood, to upchuck an unusually distended set of stamen and petals with an intriguing blush of peachy? apricotish? tone

Regards, andy
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