Lily pad upgrade!

Lily pads are dumb in Minecraft. Only tradeable and found in swamps, it sure doesn't do a lot of things. Imagine travelling tons of blocks just for your garden. And what if you need more? There should be a plant, like maybe a stem of some sort, that generates lily pads in a 1 block radius of it, and since most lily pads are not half a meter in radius, they should add a new variant: mini lily pads! These lily pads are grown in their own stem and do not act as their bigger variant because you can't stand on them. Another feature they can add to the lily pad is to give a rarer, flowering version! The big lily pad has pink flowers and the small ones have white. This sure would be nicer than either trading with a scammer or travelling all the way to the swamp for some lily pads.