Water Lillies are in Season

Pink Water Lilly, Nymphaea hybrid. The pink water lilly in the oak barrel in the front yard is showing off it's annual flower. Actually, each year it puts out somewhere between 1-3 flowers. I used to have a few different varieties but, over time, this lovely pink one pretty much won out. The rest, I suspect, went to water lilly heaven. They all came from those little boxes of water lilly tubers they sell at Home Depot every fall for pond plants. I tossed each in a plastic pot with some dirt; put some gravel on top; and into the (plastic lined) oak barrel they went. So far so good. Maybe someday, it'll get a real pond...