Which greenhouse is this?
>> Okay, now this is A3 >> A3.
>> And, Eric I'm sorry, but you're
gonna have to get your feet wet again. >> All right.
>> I'd like you to meet somebody.
>> I don't even care anymore.
It's actually getting fun now.
>> This is Emily Grant Hutchings.
>> Oh my gosh she's beautiful!
>> She is my favorite pink.
She is beautiful.
>> She's massive.
>> Yeah, in another month, she'll be much more massive.
Now, in real life Emily might not have liked to hear
you say that she was massive, but I don't think this Emily will care.
>> What size pot is that?
>> This is a 16 by 7 inch pot.
Oh, that's good size pot.
>> And, this is one that they can really grow into.
You can always plant one in a bigger pot than this, and
it will appreciate it, but it will do just fine.
>> So these are the same leaf, right?
>> Yeah, this is a newer leaf.
This is a little bit older leaf.
And, as you can see- >> That's a great look in a pond.
>> It's a- >> Two different colors.
>> It's a bronzy look, but
it's a lighter bronze than you found in the Maroon Beauty, in the red.
>> Night bloomer, right?
Even though it's daytime.
>> Even though it's daytime, it's 9 o'clock, it's still fully open,
9 in the morning.
>> Let me smell her.
>> It's coffee time.
>> Emily smells beautiful, too.
So, Emily Grant Hutchings was hybridized by George Pring.
Came out in 1922, so- >> '22?
>> '22.
It's a- >> Okay George,
I gotta remember this guy's name, too.
I know the Slocums, the and Nelson.
>> Yeah, George Pring.
And, it came as a seedling out of C.E.
Hutchings, which was her husband.
And they were friends with George Pring.
In Missouri George Pring was a famous hybridizer at
Missouri Botanical Garden. And-
>> Like a scientific hybridizer or
an accidental hybridizer?
>> Yeah, he was more of an intentional hybridizer.
>> Okay. >> Yes, he did a lot of intentional
hybridizing rather than accidental bee pollinating.
So, she was a seedling off of what was named after her husband, so
it was kind of natural for Pring to name it after her.
She was also famous back then in her own right because she.
Wrote a book, and she wrote it as the medium for
Mark Twain through a weegie board after he died.
>> What?
>> [LAUGH] >> That's wicked!
>> So, she's probably more famous than that, than she is for
the water lily. But-
>> I'm gonna have to check
that one out.
>> Yeah. >> Emily Grant.
>> She- >> So she was into weegie boards?
>> Yeah, she communicated with Mark Twain through the ouija board and
wrote an entire book through the weegie board.
>> That is a cool story for water gardening.
>> [LAUGH] >> I mean, I never even heard
such a thing.
>> You never even know [LAUGH]. >> So 1922, okay.
>> Yeah, it was in 1917 that she wrote the book.
>> Okay. >> Well,
that Mark Twain wrote the book after he was dead [LAUGH].
>> Mind blown right now.
This is amazing.
>> So- >> So George Prune you said, right?
Is that right? >> Pring.
>> Pring, George Pring. >> P-R, like Pringles potato chips.
>> Pringles, okay.
>> George Pring.
>> So once again, so this is a night bloomer, but it's kind of red, but
it's pink.
>> Right.
>> But, it's kind of a cross because it has the green leaves, but
they come up kind of bronze.
That's what I'm kind of getting from-
>> Right, it's in-between.
>> Yeah, from our talk from the reds.
>> It's in-between.
>> We're moving towards- >> The white will have green leaves,
the red will have more red leaves, and the pink is in-between.
>> We have another, you have another pink, right?
>> Yes, we do have another pink.
>> Okay, I just don't know if I wanna leave Emily yet and
move to the other pink.
Yeah, I'm kinda mesmerized right now.
>> It is very cool.
>> All right, let's go check out the other pink.
>> Okay.
>> Where's she at?
Is she a she?
The other pink?
>> She is an it. >> An it, okay.
>> State of Texas, Texas Shell Pink.
>> All right, let's go find out, let's go to Texas.