By Jackie Wullschläger - Author, Monet: The Restless Vision Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond ... unusual for landscape pictures. A burst of dazzling light streams down from the top, twists ...

This is not the meditative calm of earlier water lily paintings. It’s a storm brewing under the surface — a grappling not just with water and reflection, but also with deeper themes of time ...

Victoria water lily leaves stretch up to eight feet wide, big enough to be seen from space. But how much can these thin leaves hold? Denver Botanic Gardens asked that with its water lily weigh-off ...

After an 18-month hiatus, a restored “Waterlilies” by impressionist painter Claude Monet is back on display through August at the Portland Art Museum, its home since the museum acquired the ...

Its six pools, located outside the new West Conservatory, include nearly 100 varieties of tropical and hardy waterlilies, lotus plants and water platters – lily pads that can stretch as wide as ...

The giant Victoria water lily held 142 pounds of sand in the Missouri Botanical Garden's strength contest. (Video: Denver Botanic Gardens) “They really look like they’re from an alien planet ...

For botanist Edward Read, it was worth it. Cultivating a massive Amazonian water lily in a modest concrete basin has been his labor of love. Since 2017, Read, who is Cal State Fullerton’s ...

The smallest water lily in the world, Nymphaea thermarum, its flower about the size of a fingernail, had become one of Kew Gardens’ prized possessions. In 2014, it was stolen from the gardens .