Water Gardening: Lotus Tuber Photo, 1 by darlindeb

darlindeb wrote:
There are lots of water garden plants that come in miniature form.

The other thing I've noticed about water garden plants is that sometimes if they are in a smaller container the actual plant will be smaller. I had a small pot of 'Arrowhead' someone admired and I gave her a start. She had put hers in a larger pot and she brought some to a plant exchange the next year and her's were huge.

Ideas change with time. And, sometimes there is more than one way to do something. I've grown some lotus in those large low round pots you can get in the water garden section at Loew's with maybe two or three inches of soil in the bottom. The idea being you can actually scoot the fertilizer tabs under the plant. This method also makes them lighter and easier to move. I've grown them in 3 foot patio ponds. I've grown them in several different kinds of pots. I've cut up old pond liner and put that in nursery pots to cover the hole in the bottom and grown water garden plants in those.

Below is a picture of a small lotus leaf as it looks before it starts to unfurl.