The 2015 3rd Annual IWC New Waterlily Contest
3rd Annual New Waterlily Competition
The International Waterlily Collection is hosting our Third Annual Waterlily Competition.
We invite any hybridizer who is interested in entering to fill out the entry form and arrange to ship your plants as soon as possible. The plants will be grown out and displayed at the International Waterlily Collection (IWC) in San Angelo, Texas, USA.
What Will the 2015
Winners Look Like?
Initial guidelines:
1) The competition is open to any waterlily hybrid that has not been in the trade for more than two years and has not previously won any New Waterlily Competition.
2) Three divisions – Hardy / Tropical / Intersubgenerics (ISG’s)
3) Awards for the Best plant in each division with 1 overall winner
4) No entry fees
Reasons to enter the San Angelo Competition
1) Ken Landon
* Ken has been growing waterlilies for over 50 years
* World acclaimed grower, collector, hybridizer and conservationist
* Innovator of superior a fertilizer formulation, tuber production and tuber storage techniques.
* Perry Slocum and Dr. Kirk Strawn sent their newest hybrids to be trialed by Ken to see what their maximum potential would be
* Ken worked intimately with Patrick Nutt formerly of Longwood Gardens on growing techniques and preserving collections from such famed hybridizers as George Pring and Martin Randig
* Ken’s efforts were featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, he recently received a Texas Conservationist Award, his Nymphaea ‘Texas Dawn’ was named Official Waterlily of the State of Texas.
2) The waterlilies will grow under optimal conditions so it maximum growth potential and flower production will be realized. We have Anecypha and Brachyceras entries that exceed 12 feet (3.6 meters) and Nymphaea that exceed 8 feet (2.4 meters). The image below has a standard 3 foot measuring stick. As you can see, the plant dwarfs the measuring instrument. If you want to enter a competition where your entry has the greatest chance to reach its maximum potential, the IWC contest is the perfect choice.
3) The International Waterlily Collection at San Angelo’s Civic League Park is a botanical exhibit exclusively dedicated to aquatic plants
4) A superb staff and team of volunteers maintain the exhibit in peak condition.
5) Civic League Park is free and open to the public 24 hours a day
6) We have a lengthy growing season – March until November
7) High Temperatures and maximum sunlight availability assure excellent growing conditions
8) The competition will be viewed by tens of thousands of annual visitors to the park
9) Outstanding publicity by the International Waterlily Collection’s websites and the City of San Angelo assure maximum public exposure of the plants and the competition
10) Excellent photo and video documentation of the competition and all of the waterlilies.
11) The IWC is one of the top-ranked water gardens in the world.
If any Nymphaea hybridizer would like to submit varieties to be grown for the competition, please complete the entry form and submit by July 31st, 2015.
Plants, tubers or rhizomes need to arrive in Texas by the middle of May 2015 for the best chance of winning but will be accepted until the middle of August 2015.
The entries will be judged in conjunction with LilyFest 2015 in mid September of 2015.
Arrangements can be made to send entries by contacting Tim Davis at
tim@internationalwaterlilycollection.com
Downloadable Entry Form in simple text format .txt