Koi Pond's swimming fish offer a surprisingly relaxing and addictive antidote to modern life. ... (App Store link) would involve meandering Japanese carp, floating lily pads, and ambient noise.

Fragrant yellow and white blossoms seem lotus-like amid a raft of floating lily pads atop shallow freshwater ponds. Their hollow stems link floating leaves to shallow roots anchored in soft muck.

Giant Amazonian lily pads are the world’s largest and strongest floating plants. How they’re built is inspiring real-world structures from skyscrapers to wind turbines.

The flowers and leaves – the lily pads – grow from a root-like underground stem, or rhizome, in the muddy bottom. In the fall, the flowers and leaves die back but the rhizome survives the winter.

They're not your typical pond lily pads, either. They're the Gardens' power players, the Victoria cruziana, Victoria Amazonica and Victoria 'Longwood Hybrid.' If you've been to the Denver Botanic ...

PLANS have been submitted to build a new floating home near Winchester. Produced by Winchester-based architects AR Design Studio, the plans for 'The Water Lily House' show the house would float on ...

The Missouri Botanical Garden won first place by piling 142 pounds on a Victoria water lily pad floating in the pond across from the Climatron. At 5 feet across, it was the largest pad in the pool.