Love Song Lotus will be music to your eyes and brings forth harmony in your heart with the bright-red flowers that bloom above the handsome, green foliage. The single petal red blooms are adorned with a fringe of golden-yellow anthers and golden-yellow receptacles on this tall lotus specimen. Love Song Lotus grows to four feet tall or taller when planted in your pond or in wide containers. Love is in the air when you plant Love Song Lotus!
Planting Instructions
Plant your lotus in a wide container 24 inches wide or wider, using loam soil. Add 4 - 6 inches of water above the soil. Place your lotus where it will receive 8 - 10 hours of sunlight daily. Do not fertilize your lotus until you have aerial leaves. Then place your lotus on a regular feeding schedule. Your first dose of fertilizer should be 1/2 a dose, then every three week you should add 3 - 4 fertilizer tablets to the soil in your lotus container.
We recommend Waterlily World Fertilizer Tabs for optimum growth and best bloom.
*Please see our 'Complete Lotus Growing Guide' included with your purchase.
What Is Loam Soil?
Loam soil is a good mixture of Topsoil and Sand
If you are lucky enough to have good topsoil in your backyard, by all means, use your topsoil. All you will have to do is add fertilizer. If you are not so lucky--and your backyard is sand or heavy red or yellow clay, you can mix up a batch of loam soil.
You can create your own loam soil by mixing these two ingredients together
- 2/3 Inorganic Topsoil (Little or no organic material added)
- 1/3 Pool Filter Sand
Mix together thoroughly with a little water. Your soil should clump when squeezed. If your soil is mixed properly, it will not muddy your pond water.
Don't buy brands like Scott's or Miracle-Gro, as they will contain too much organic matter that can foul your water. Buy an unbranded bag of topsoil instead.
You can purchase Pool Filter Sand at any store that sells pool supplies.
Loam soil is well suited for all aquatic plants (except oxygenators). Oxygenators rarely need to be planted, just anchored in the substrate or in a container filled with sand or 1/8 inch pea gravel.
Sand holds little water but does allow for aeration and drainage.
Some DO's and DON'TS regarding Aquatic Planting Soil
DO NOT use potting soils ( as they are too light and will float right out of the pot). Potting Soil has organic material that will rot and foul your water!
DO NOT add too much composted material (as it is too rich in organic matter and it will ferment underwater and destroy the ecology of your pond).
DO NOT use 100% calcined clay as there is no nutritional value in calcined clay.
DO NOT add rocks, stones or pebbles to the top of your planting container as this will inhibit the growth of your plants. Plants do not grow in rocks and stones in nature!
DO NOT purchase API Aquatic Planting Media or Microbe-lift Aquatic Planting Media as these products are NOT suitable for waterlilies, lotus or most other pond plants. They are suitable for submerged grasses ONLY!
