Contrary to public opinion, there is a change of season in south Florida’s semi-tropical environment. No, it isn’t about the typical “winter, spring, summer, fall” cycle Yankees are always missing, but there is a noticeable change when the summer’s wet season moves into the winter dry season. Whenever someone bemoans the region’s lack of seasons, I tell them they are looking in the wrong places. Especially in terms of changing leaf colors. The leaves of these water lilies in the eastern Everglades of Broward County do in fact change with the seasons in gloriously colorful shades of red and purple and yellow-orange. This variety of water lily (gigantean Tricker), occurs throughout much of Florida, but you haven’t really seen them in their full glory unless you’re out in the Everglades basking in fields of the flowers and their colorful leaves as far as the eye can see. Besides its vast acreage, the Everglades is a perfect place for the fragrant water plants, because they grow best in full sunlight and prefer still waters free from too much wind and wave action.
Small: 12.75” x 10” – $140.00 | Medium: 38.25” x 30” – $320.00 | Large: 51” x 40” – $570.00