"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Charlie Pridham wrote:
"z" wrote in message
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any idea where I can purchase a hardy lotus (indoor/outdoor)
plant? TIA.

Could you be more specific, do you mean Lotus hirsutus? which is a
sort of silvery leafed sub shrub or the stuff that grows in the
Nile
like a water lily!

No, the Nile menace is Water hyacinth from S America...Eichornia
something?? Very pretty, but a disaster. I don't think the water-lily
lotus is anything l;ike hardy, either.

Mike.

The Lotus is found in the Nile (among other places) and is thought to be the
source of the expression "cast your bread upon the water ... etc" As the
ancient Egyptians apparently ground the seeds for a kind of flour, and used
to plant the stuff deliberately. And yes I know its not hardy, I was just
gently trying to point out that with vague naming you get rather strange
advice! :~)

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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
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