Lotus are such cool plants.

[bagsmom]

This blossom is taller than I am. I had to hold the phone way up over my head and tilt it down to get a picture of the inside of the flower. They are really fun to grow!

 

[mrsclem]

Really beautiful white lotus. Mine are all pink but are doing well this year.

 

[qclabrat]

I'm so jealous, my two plants didn't make it through the winter

 

[KDubU]

That is very pretty. @bagsmom are you in a zone that it survives the winter? There were a couple plants I thought of getting and lotus was one but read they will not survive for me (5b).

 

[mrsclem]

This is mine last year. Didn't get too many seeds and they didn't survive this hot spring we had. Over a dozen blooms so far this year but only about half the seeds are looking to be viable.

 

[bagsmom]

I love the pink ones! I have some that did well initially, but I just had to cut off a bunch of leaves. They got brown at the very edges, then slowly turned very yellow. I think they have some kind of lotus funky crud. I know you have to cut the stems far above the surface of the water, so water doesn't go in and rot the tuber. There are some brown floating leaves, too, but I don't want to pull them off for fear of water getting inside the plant. I'm hoping for the best!
I am in zone 7b. With a lot of things, I just do a "wait and see and hope for the best" strategy. I think we got down to 19 last winter and some years it has gone to single digits. But those temperatures never last long, so things in the water seem to do fine. I've had some ice around the edges of the waterfall, but nothing ever freezes solid here.

 

[mrsclem]

Mine are in shallow preform ponds and so far have not frozen. Same zone as you so guess i have just been lucky.

 

[bettasngoldfish]

Those lotus are so beautiful. I didn't realize they came in white.

 

[addy1]

I have the white, pink and pink and white. With this hot weather they are blooming but the flower does not last long. Lots of flowers so far, do really enjoy their brief stay.

Also the severe storms we are having is hard on the flowers.

 

[bagsmom]

I have the white, pink and pink and white. With this hot weather they are blooming but the flower does not last long. Lots of flowers so far, do really enjoy their brief stay.

Also the severe storms we are having is hard on the flowers.

I'm always amazed at how strong the stems are, especially in the winds of big storms!

 

[addy1]

Found the pictures of my three colors, we were just drinking a glass of wine waiting to see if the tornado would hit, It was right over us

The whole house was shaking

 

[SherrysPond]

Found the pictures of my three colors, we were just drinking a glass of wine waiting to see if the tornado would hit, It was right over us

The whole house was shaking
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How scary for you, hope it passed you by.......

 

[addy1]

It did, one heck of a booming storm. We luck out here most of the time have some hills that direct the storms around us...................usually

 

[Lisak1]

I'd wanna go out with a glass of wine in my hand too @addy1 !

I'm jealous of all the lotus blooms - ours are just now sending up aerial leaves. We'll have blooms in a week or so I'm guessing!

And ours do survive in 5B @KDubU - just get them low enough in the water so the tubers don't freeze and they stand a good chance of making it.

 

[Tula]

Stunning blossom ! I love the one with the bee in the center.......you should submit it for the photo of the month sometime

 

[bagsmom]

Addy - those are so pretty! And super scary about the tornado! Tula -- thank you!

 

[mrsclem]

Found the pictures of my three colors, we were just drinking a glass of wine waiting to see if the tornado would hit, It was right over us

The whole house was shaking
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Addy- do you happen to know the name of the white and pink one?

 

[addy1]

Addy- do you happen to know the name of the white and pink one?

If I can manage to find it, yes. It should be on my old lappy. I will take a look

 

[poconojoe]

Wow! Those are gorgeous!
I had no idea lotus grew that tall. I though they sat on the water surface like lillies.
At what depth should they be planted?
I've had bad results with lillies. Between my fish eating the stems and having them planted too deep, they never did well. I guess I could have corrected the depth problem by sitting them on something like a milk crate.

 

[addy1]

The surface of the dirt is 12 inches below water level, the kitty litter is 1.5 feet in depth, the lotus are growing free. They are in a 300 gallon stock tank.
If you put them in a pond, they need some containment, they send out runners and will take over. I had one break free and I had a ton of runners to pull out of the pond and that was a mini.