🌸 Nymphaea ‘Princess Elise’
2024 IWGS 3rd Place – Best New Water Lily
By Peter Nitzsche, USA
Introducing N. Princess Elise, a striking new hybrid from American hybridizer Peter Nitzsche, offering intensely saturated blooms with a sweet fragrance and strong flowering performance. Resembling N. Bangkok Miracle, this cultivar features larger flowers with broader petals and a richer, more vibrant color palette. Its lush deep green pads provide a beautiful contrast to the brilliant blooms.
Highlights:
🌺 Flowers: Large, fragrant, and vividly colored — more saturated than N. Bangkok Miracle
🍃 Pads: Deep green, adding balance to the vivid floral tones
🏆 Award-Winning: 3rd Place Winner, 2024 IWGS Best New Water Lily
🛒 Exclusive: Available only through Aquatic Oasis Lilies
Planting Recommendations:
🪴 Container: 12–16” circular pot or larger
🌊 Depth: 6–18” from soil to water surface
🌞 Light: Minimum 6 hours of full sun daily
📍 USDA Zones: Ideal for zones 6–10
With its vibrant presence and award-winning pedigree, N. Princess Elise brings elegance, fragrance, and vivid color to your pond — a must-have for collectors and enthusiasts alike.
This lily is U.V. sensative in hot dry climates does best in USDA Zones 5+ If the flowers are burning we suggest planting it under a white 40-50% U.V. Blocking shade cloth. Best if planted in a depth range of 4-18" from soil to surface.  Plant in a large rectangular pot as the rhyzome likes to run horizontally.