Special Notes on Lotus Tubers
Important Note on Shipping Lotus: Lotus orders come from a special, limited-availability, farm and because of this cannot be combined with other products for shipping. Shipping is a flat $18.00 regardless of the number of tubers ordered
Limited Time & Limited Quantities: Lotus are harvested during winter dormancy and shipped bare root, March 15 - Early May Only. Orders ship Mon-Wed of each week and are weather-dependent. Please allow extra delivery time if the order is placed Wed-Sun or during extreme temperatures.
How to Plant & Care for Lotus
Description
Nelumbo nucifera ‘Tiny’ — bowl lotus, shipped as a dormant lotus tuber.
Can be grown as a micro lotus...excellent for planting in very small pots!
This little lotus blooms, and blooms, and blooms! From spring through summer it will produce lots of flowers. It is perfect for a small pot on the patio and is well suited for miniaturizing when placed in an extra-small pot since it is an exquisite of bowl lotus (see planting instructions below).
Please specify by writing "Send small rhizome" in the comments section of the Check Out page if you want a rhizome suitable for growing in an extra-small pot.
At a glance
- Flower color: Versicolor, Changeable
- Flower type: Single or Few Petals, less than 20 petals
- Plant height: Bowl, up 13" tall
- Container: 10" and wider, 4"-8" deep
As a bowl lotus, this one settles at 2 to 12 inches of water over the crown once established — start a new tuber under 2 to 4 inches and raise the level as it pushes aerial leaves, with the growing tip left uncovered. Pot size, soil and the rest of the method are in the lotus planting instructions.
Browse more multi-color lotus or see every bowl and miniature lotus we carry.
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