Beautiful Daniella, are they fragrant? How difficult to grow?

Brandon

thanks :) I had to go check after I read your question, lol. yes they are fragrant!! But I had to bring it to my face to smell it. They are easy to grow. Mine have their own preform pond filled with soil.

Beautiful! I only had 1 bloom on mind.
Lucky you.
Dorothy

You ssstinnk!!!! JK Daniella, Luv Ya, Come talk to my lotus and see if you can get it to produce some blooms like yours.

lol, honey..I come down to FL, I aint never comin back!!!!
Have you been givin it fert? I use Jobes tomato spikes every couple weeks, although I have to admit that I havent done it as much as I shoulda..keep forgetting!

Those are gorgeous!!! Great job! My pond currently gets too much shade for lotus and lilies, grrr! So this fall I'm going to do a second addition on the east wing, and hopefully get at least part of the pond in a more sunny location! But that addition will have to be Koi-free! little buggers (er, big buggers) keep eating everything I put in there!

Daniella it was worth the wait!! Just beautiful and you are so lucky you have a pond to grow them in. I would in a heartbeat...but no pond :-(

Lucy

Ooooooooh! Now I know why people just keep making their ponds bigger. I love my lilies but the ponds are already overpopulated and now you've created lotus envy.
.......sigh.

thanks guys :)

ooo Ryan, you can connect by a stream, that way the fishies cant get to it! ooo I can see it now!!! nice lil bridge to cross over... some day I'll have that..some day....
I will win the battle of the yard..IT IS MINE!!!

Come on Lucy..you can do it! Just a lil preform is all ya need. to begin with anyway..lol

Mantorvillain..its never big enough..never. I told DH, "ya know, some people have their whole backyard as a giant pond with bridges to walk around...nice lil island in the middle would be nice.." I'm in gaga land with a half smile, a world away nodding my head, and he just looked at me like I was psychotic..I dont know why? HA! He's the ones who's nuts! Why do the kids need a yard to play? Why I ask? Theres playgrounds all over for cryin out loud! LOL!

So beautiful your, I have lotus too, no name. I looking for other lotus, if someone have seed, I'd like to trade.

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Mine is going dormant already boohoo. They seem to want to go to bed for the winter after they bloom. I have to figure out how to get them to bloom longer. It would help if Lucy Lou would quit eating them, lol. Very pretty!

Kristy roflmao. Your Lotus is probably just playing DEAD...so Lucy Lou things that there is nothing more she can get out of em ha ha ha ha

But do not worry, I got a little terror too now. Precious breaks everything because she things all is hers and plants...well I can not count the times I have to vacuum the dirt off the floor now from plants she rips out and knocks down...would be better if she would do all that outdoors lol

But she is still my Precious!!

Sue very pretty bloom too

Daniella...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO lol

Lucy

LOL, Daniella, I've already got the bridge! It's the only means of getting into the gazebo. I purposely put the pond directly in front of it so it the pond became as much a destination in the yard as the gazebo. Of course now the fish are trained to beg for food every time someone walks across the bridge.

you knoooooow you want to Lucy!!! lol!!!!

Good idea Ryan...yeah um..I'm stiiiilll waiting on pix of your pond! smart lil fishies eh? Its amazing how fast they learn people=food, lol. I feel so bad every time I go by the pond and dont have anything to give them..I try to search for bugs real quick, lol.

Kristy I agree w/Lucy..its a defense mechanism, lol

Ok, I don't seem to have a good picture that shows the actual pond...

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It's buried in there somewhere. LOL

Did you know that the seeds are edible? I've had the tubers before but never the seeds. I think I heard that they taste a bit like chestnuts. Beautiful and edible : )

Ryan, thank you so much for postin a pic..I LOVE it! Its beautiful! So peaceful, if that were my yard I'd be out there in that gazebo aaalllll the time! Summer, I'd eat every meal out there, lol. Everything looks great!! I'll give ya a lil more time to get a good pic of the actual pond, buried in those lovely lush plants..but you dont get as long as you did last time..lol

Karyn, I had heard that about the tubers, but not the seeds. Interesting. How do the tubers taste?

I've had the sliced tubers stir fried and honestly don't think they have much of a taste. They just look kind of cool. lol Since my lotus didn't bloom this year I'm going to see if DH has any fresh seed pods so I can taste the seeds.

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Mine is currently blooming too, I have Mrs Perry D Slocum.

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Danielle, do you know the name of yours? It loose a lot like Roseum Plenum

Dang Ryan, that looks awesome. I think I'll have my pond wrap around my gazebo. When I get a pond. And a gazebo. haha. Thanks for the idea. Now all I have to do is win the lottery

Beautiful, D! Ruth Ann it's named "Sunflower"! Oooh, I just got a Mrs. Perry D. Slocum(God, I hate that name)LOL this spring. Growing lots of leaves, maybe I'll get a bloom or two yet.
Ryan, your little escape is so beautiful! It's got to be winter for you in that picture with all the pansies. Nice yard too!

Theresa

Haha Theresa, so many responses come to mind. Think I better leave this one alone ;)

Thanks! The pic was taken in April, just before the first wave of heat kills everything off. hehehe I'm so over summers!!! C'mon winter!!

Brandon, my original "plan" was to create an island in the pond where one of the four support posts for the gazebo would rest. So the pond would actually extend inside the gazebo. But I haven't been that ambitious yet! Not sure if I'm going to stay in this house long enough to do it, but I'll definitely do it in the next house. Funny thing is I was looking at a house the other day that had a swimming pool (which I don't want) and thought to myself that my koi would be thrilled to have a pond that large! lol

haha move to Jersey..you'll live for summer!

Theresa, the name comes from the lotus being named after the wife of one of the premier lotus hybridizers in the USA, Mr. Perry D. Slocum

They are all beautiful. Ryan I saw a really cool place on Central Texas gardener show that had a shallow pool with a greenhouse built on top on stilts and you could see through the floor. It was really cool. They used it like an outdoor room in the summer and she keeps tropicals in it during the winter.

Ruth Ann, I knew that! I still hate the name!LOL

Theresa

I know why Dani's Lotus is so happy and beautiful!
It's because Dani has the habit of sticking her head into the pond, to kiss the fish.
Apparently the Lotus likes that, too.

haase roflmao

ruth ann your Lotus bloom is just so gorgeous also!!

Ryan I just say dito to all everyone said. Is that you in the picture? Was just going to add that even though I do not have a pond...but seen all of you pond owners here go through the making of theirs...and in the end when they are all grown over with plants ...they look the BEST!

Lucy