A tour of displays at Denver Botanic Gardens The Monet pool features a wide variety of waterlilies and marginal plants. Nymphaea ‘Manee Red’ (left) is a hardy waterlily from hybridizer Pairat Songpanich of Thailand. Nymphaea ‘Detective Erika’ is an intersubgeneric hardy x tropical cross from Zijun Li of China. A display of taro (Colocasia esculenta and hybrids) in the Reflections pool Canna ‘Tony’ makes a bold and colorful statement in the Monet pool. Nelumbo ‘High Cotton’ is a lotus cultivar from Ten Mile Creek nursery and grows in the Monet pool. Nelumbo ‘Aoyun Lian’ (Olympic Lotus) bloom Nymphaea ‘Wanvisa’, a hardy waterlily with variable flowers [Show slideshow]