Lotus plants are aquatic perennials that often grow in ponds and lakes and can be grown easily in backyard water gardens. While often called water lilies, they are not. Lotus (Nelumbo spp.) leaves and ...

American lotus, or Nelumbo lutea, is an aquatic plant found growing in still to slow-moving freshwater habitats across much ...

The near-mythic lotus is easy to grow here in the subtropics. And you don’t really even need a proper pond. When I was a kid up north, I didn’t think the Everglades was a real place. It seemed like a ...

For the past three years, I have been trying to learn all I could about growing lotus (Nelumbo species) in a bowl. After two years of failure, I finally got it right last summer. And it was not that ...

With January marking a new year full of new possibilities, many of us are spending this month setting some goals and manifesting what we want our 2025 to look like. Well, what if I told you there are ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Dai-Duong Ton-That and his family have a secret on the city's North Side. This secret bears fruit: plums and nectarines, currants and gooseberries, two kinds of persimmons and up to ...