Kay wrote:
In article , Mike Lyle
mike_lyle_uk@REM OVETHISyahoo.co.uk writes
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.

The "blue lotus" Nymphaea caerulea grows in the Nile too ;-)
The true lotus is Nelumbo and I think from India.

Thanks both: I must brush up on my tomb-paintings! Not at all sure
why I associated the pest water hyacinth with Charlie's mention of
water-lilies.

Mike.