Water Gardening: darlindeb..... and also others... I'm starting lotus seed..., 1 by darlindeb

darlindeb wrote:
Hmmm, I noticed a lotus for sale that someone said was a "Sacred Hindu Lotus." Do you know if that is the one that grows where you are?

I have never cut any of my lotus flowers. Do they make a nice arrangement in a vase?
Do they open and close with night and day?

One time I was getting a pond ready for a tour in the future, I trimmed and groomed the hardy water lilies and cut all the blooms. They made okay cut flowers. Those flowers did close up at night though. I also have heard of people dripping candle wax between the petals to keep the flowers open.

This is something odd that I see almost every year on one of the first blooms of the season. The pod just doesn't form right. I have seen this same thing in photos of other peoples lotus.