Water Gardening: Lotus in the garage?, 1 by randbponder

randbponder wrote:
Lori is your lotus in the pond now or in a bog garden?
This is only my second year with lotus. but I got my tubers before I could plant them. so I just hung them down in my pond. I checked with several people and they were sure that as long as the tuber don't freeze you are ok. I know of one person zone 5 , his ponds are not very deep. 2&1/2-3' is all. He just leaves them be. They are in the water all winter So unlees they are a tropical. they should be ok. We have a lake up here close by that has lotus in it, and they get no care at all. They come back every year. I do know that they don't like their roots messed with.
Don't know if this is any help or not, will check some other sites as I realy plan to leave mine in the pond. I'll get ice 3-4" thick
but I keep a hole open with a small pump as I have quite a few large Koi and it is a necessity for the "gases" to escape.