In summer, the most splendid flower is lotus. But they are not just flowers, they can also produce edible roots and seeds.
Please enjoy my collection of the lotus varieties.
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This is sooo impressive! Congratulations! 
Did you plant them by seed or you get the plants?
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Half and half!
Half of them were grown from seeds. Half of them were bought from the nursery.
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thank you for your reply! And it’s easy to plant them by seed?
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Pretty easy. But pink and red single layer are dominated .
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Thank you very much! I think i will start tow them too… 
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I am digging a pond this weekend for the 4 lotus seeds varieties I swapped from @Sophia2017. I always wanted a Koi pond with beautiful lotus and some frogs sitting on top of the lotus leaves. I got to keep the coons from eating the Koi though.
Tony
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Tony,
You are an avid grower in this group even in zone 5. The weather condition is very limited, but you are unlimited.
That’s the reason that I am willing to share my treasure with you.
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I will dig the pond deep below the freezing level like 5 feet deep to prevent the tubers from frozen out and let the Koi hypernate on the bottom. Here is my brother’s pond in Chicago and I will try to replicate it here.
Tony
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Wow, Can’t wait to see your pond!
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Your’s brother’s pond alone is about 50% of my backyard space 
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