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ing to the thriving plants and un-derscoring his defiant nature. Ittook me two years to get em up,but they are up.
The plants, which he describesas temperamental, like 90-degreewater and little movement in thewater. Landon grew the tuberslast year, overwintered them andthen grew the plants this year.
To see this flower bloominghere, to John Q. Public it doesntmean anything, he says. For abotanist or botanical enthusiastor water lily expert, its meaning-ful.
Nutt, who describes as a pil-grimage his visit to West Texasfrom the 1,000-acre garden inPennsylvania created by PierreduPont, says Landon probablyhas one of the finest displays ofwater lilies in the world.
While he concentrates on cre-ating hybrids, he also is intenton preserving the species. A dec-ade ago, Landon founded the In-ternational Waterlily Preserva-tion Repository, through whichhe collects specimens and sharesseeds.
When flooding on the NileRiver threatened the sacred bluelily of the Nile (N. caerulea),Egyptian officials called Landonand came here to get 2 millionseeds to restart the plant. Of thelarge order, Landon says, Itsnot hard to do because each seedpod has 60,000 to 70,000 seeds.
Landon treks to jungles andremote locales in search of rare
specimens, and he relates storiesof hopscotching across an alliga-tors head (he thought it was arock until its mouth opened) andother harrowing adventures toget his hands on seldom-seen aq-uatic plants.
The gene pool is going away,he says of the genus that isthreatened by flooding, swampdraining for development and en-croaching populations in third-world countries. Theyre notworried about lilies, theyre wor-ried about surviving, he says.Efforts to wipe out invasive spe-cies such as water hyacinthsometimes wipe out noninvasivenymphaeas, and hybrids alsotake over established species.
Landon worries that futuregenerations wont know theplants he knows. But hes trying
to perpetuate the species.His focus is to preserve . . .
Nymphaea from all around theworld, not just Texas, not just theSouth, not just the United States,but the entire world, which is apretty awesome task, says PaulaBiles, executive director of theInternational Waterlily and Wa-ter Gardening Society based in
Bradenton, Fla.From two seedlings of Nym-
phaea gigantea, a species nativeto Australia, Landon createdBlue Cloud, a lavender-blueflower. We have it in the pool atLongwood, Nutt says of the hy-brid. Its our pride and joy.
Visitors to the West Texaspark can see giganteas bloomingin their entire color range pink, blue and white. Often, gar-den guests from Australia havenever seen a single variety of theplant in their homeland, Nuttsays.
Landon notes the park displayrepresents only about 1 percentof his plant family, which he saysis the largest collection of the ge-nus Nymphaea in the world. Hegrows the plants in a greenhousein Miles, about 20 miles north-
east of here and at gardensaround the world.
While this semiarid region,with an annual rainfall averageof 18 inches, seems an improba-ble place to establish a world-class water lily garden, Landonsettled here to be near family. In1988, he took over a pond built inthe 1930s as a reflective pool in a
Works Progress Administrationproject, and with the support ofthe local Council of GardenClubs transformed the muddymess into what is now the mainpond. Five smaller ponds sur-round the center pool, andtheres room for one more thatwill be built as funding allows.Landon says he has turned downpotentially lucrative offers to re-locate the collection. He owns allthe plants, and the city pays hissalary as curator.
Guests, with cameras clicking,wander the labyrinth of side-walks among the pools. Some fo-cus their lenses on the flowers.Others use the lilies as back-drops for family photos, captur-ing the next generation with theplants Landon has preserved forthem. National Geographic pho-
tographers have come calling todocument rare species.
And if this is an unlikely loca-tion for a world-class water gar-den, Landon is an unlikely gar-dener. Trained as an industrialengineer with a minor in botany,his love for water lilies beganwhen he was a teen building apond in Albuquerque, N.M. Aftera bit of searching, he found a re-tailer who ordered an aquaticplant for him.
That plant died when the fam-ily moved to Fort Worth in the1960s, but Landons mother spot-ted a newspaper story about awoman selling water lilies, andLandon began digging a pond.He overnighted his new plant inthe garage before the pool was
complete and was smitten by thesweet fragrance of the flower thatgreeted him the next morning.
I was hooked, he recalls.Landons work has earned
him a spot in the InternationalWater Gardening Society Hall ofFame. That, however, isnt whathe views as his greatest claim tofame.
Landon also finds time to in-dulge his passion for pyrotech-nics. He received a call from theWhite House to supply strobestar fireworks for President Rea-gans second inauguration.
Locals, in fact, know Landonas well for his annual Fourth ofJuly fireworks display as for hiswater lilies. Giverny couldnt saythat for Monet.
TRACY HOBSON LEHMANN/STAFF
ABOVE: A flower of Ineta Ruthrises above a pond at the Interna-tional Waterlily Collection. KenLandon, who developed it,named the plant for his mother.
LEFT: A bee hovers over a flowerof Nymphaea Blue Cloud.
Water lily
collection
among
the bestCONTINUED FROM 1E
What: Celebration ofthe InternationalWaterlily Collection.Tour the collection andsee the latest hybridsdeveloped byhorticulturist KenLandon.
When: 9 a.m.-noonSept. 16. Landon willlead a tour at 11 a.m.
Where: Civic LeaguePark, San Angelo.Located on North ParkStreet between Harrisand Beauregardavenues.
Admission: Free.
Info: (325) 657-4279or SanAngeloTexas.org.
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PATRICK DOVE/SPECIAL TO THE EXPRESS-NEWS
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However one decides to allo-cate cash for flash, Thwart De-signs manifesto emphasizes:Dont let creativity lie dormant.
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