Central Midwest Gardening: What are you planting?, 1 by darlindeb

darlindeb wrote:
The bowl lotus which I think is 'Sunrise Bowl' was a gift; however, the person got it from Water's Edge in Lawrence, KS. I contacted them to see if they did mail order, but last year they were only selling from their shop. Y ou can go to their website.www.watersedge.com and check them out.

I had tried a different variety of bowl lotus several years back with no luck; however, this one performed very well with five blooms. The blooms didn't set seed or I'd send you a seed Aunt B. I grew this one in a large size plastic salad bowl in a 3 ft wide patio pond and had it rigged so the bowl was only about 2 or 3 inches below the water line.

With the ice storm and power outage we had in December I don't know what is going to make it in my water gardens. Only time will tell.

I love lotus. I wish I could talk my husband into building me a bog area where I could grow more.

About the middle of May I will endeavor to start all my lotus seeds.