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Nelumbo Momo Botan Potted Dwarf Lotus WE DO NOT SHIP PLANTS. LOCAL PICK UP ONLY
Stunning carmine-red double flowering blossoms. Dwarf variety suited to smaller ponds and patio gardens. Zone 3
- Common Name: sacred lotus
- Type: Herbaceous perennial
- Family: Nelumbonaceae
- Zone: 4 to 10
- Height: 1.00 to 2.00 feet
- Spread: 1.00 to 3.00 feet
- Bloom Time: July to August
- Bloom Description: Rose pink
- Sun: Full sun
- Water: Wet
- Maintenance: Low
- Suggested Use: Annual, Water Plant, Naturalize, Rain Garden
- Flower: Showy, Fragrant
- Fruit: Showy
Easily grown in calm water in full sun. Winter hardy to USDA Zone 4 as long as the roots do not freeze (i.e., water does not freeze down to the roots).
Established plants are generally less aggressive than the species, but will spread and colonize over time.
Roots may be planted in containers about 4-6" below the surface and anchored in the mud at the bottom of the water body in order to both control growth and facilitate any later moving of the plants.
Rhizomes of container-grown plants may be lifted in fall after plants die back and stored in a cool location (basement, root cellar or other frost-free area) until spring.
LOTUS PLANT CARE: - The Lotus plant should be fertilized sparingly for the first year.
- Too much fertilizer may cause the Lotus foliage to burn.
- A Lotus plant that is established can be fed every 3 or 4 weeks during the growing season.
- Care must be taken when inserting fertilizer tabs, because the growing tip and new growth can be damaged.
- It is important to protect the Lotus roots from freezing.
- Lotus can winter over in the pond if the pond depth is below the freeze line for your area.
- In late fall, the yellowed foliage should be cut off and the plant lowered to the deepest part of the pond.
- Or you may lift the tubers after the plant has died back during the fall.
- If you lift the tubers, store them in a cool, frost-free location until late spring.
- To help prevent mildew and rotting, store them in living sphagnum moss
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