After a while the petals of the water lily spread and fall leaving the seedhead exposed.
The beauty of the water lily plant seen here in The Botanical Gardens, Geneva, Switzerland. Note the seedheads of the ones that have gone before and the bud of the one that is to come.
There's this sleek new building near The Botanical Gardens in Geneva, Switzerland. But it was such a cloudy afternoon I just couldn't get a clear shot at it.