Water Gardening: What do I do now?, 1 by ardesia

ardesia wrote:
GA girl, plain old backyard DIRT will do fine, some people even use plain gravel. Like realsis said however, never use potting mix, the peat and perlite floats and makes a mess too.

Lotus grow so easily from tubers and I have found I have to divide mine every year (I grow them in large containers) or they do not bloom as well because the tubers are strangling themselves. Growing in a bog would be different and easier I think. Winter is the best - and coldest - time to divide. If it were not for the alligators and snakes, I would sink a child's wading pool in the ground and grow lotus there.

One of my friend recently called then "Southern Peonies". Since we can't grow peonies and the flowers are similar it works for me. LOL