Water Gardening: uh-oh: Nelumbo seed looks bad..., 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
I think the problem with people growing lotus is they keep them in containers or in areas that are far to small. A lotus needs at least a 4X4 or larger area to look really good. What you see in the photo above and this one as well is bogs that I built for my mother. All I did was dig out a whole 8 feet wide 6 feet wide and 1 foot deep on the edge and 2 feet deep in the middle. The top was leveled off and rocks were laid round the the liner. The center 2 foot area was then filled in with the clay soil I dug out about 9 inches to 1 foot deep. You then add your lotus some fertilizer and a few gold fish that survive just fine and you have yourself a bog that keeps frogs fish and an amazing lotus. Their is virtually no maintenance to the whole thing once installed. At one time she had over 30 flowers all around 10 inches across no this lotus Perry D Slocum