Shoot I just bought 3 lotus plants. I don't have any extras I'm just getting started with Lotus. Hopefully next year I'll have a couple to trade. These Lotus were anywhere from $30 to $50 each. I'm so new to them I can't even come up with the names of them at the moment. I have them marked outside in the pond. LOL Shiroman Lotus is not one of them however.

Good luck and I hope you do find someone to trade with.
Do you have any other water plants you could trade for other plants or postage???

I already have parrots feather, umbrella plant, water lettuce, water iris, and 2 different water lilies that I've never seen bloom so I don't know what they are.

I just finished building a big pond in the front yard. I've had the hole there for nearly a year but we're old and just couldn't ever get around to finishing it because everything else needed our attention. Hopefully this year we will be able to sit out there and enjoy watching the fish, listening to the water, and looking at the plants.

Good Luck with your trade and happy gardening,
Marian

i thought i sent you a message but do not see it try buying your lotus and water lilies from Teaxas Water Garden they have prices half of what you pa,next year tell me what you have and we can exchange, i plant mine in tubs bought from lowes and put a bag of black cow from lowes and then hevey garden soil and then put a 3 or 5 gal plasic pot with holes in the bottom put hevey garden soil in lotus on top,and next year you will have lotus tubers all aroiund the outside of the plastic pot to share LOL hightider