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White Pear Flower Lotus
Bowl/Dwarf / Early bloomer!

Pond Plants, Water Lilies, & Live goods ship in Spring & Summer during your proper growing seasons. Check by email for availability to ship other times of the year.
$55.00

White Pear Flower Lotus  (Lihua Bai) 

Lotus Plant description

WHITE PEAR FLOWER  LOTUS is an early bloomer with elegant white flowers and yellow-green petaloids. White Pear Flower Lotus is one of the very first to bloom each season. This small lotus hybrid can be grown in a very small container and is suitable to be grown as an Exquisite of Bowl Lotus, a Dwarf Lotus or as a Micro Lotus. Your container size will determine the size of this small beauty!


White Pear Flower Lotus prefers shallow water and small containers, consider this when planting. Use small, wide, shallow container and loam soil, plant in full sun outdoors (8-12 hours of sunlight per day) with 1 - 2 inches of water above lotus tuber, fertilize when you have two aerial leaves growing out of the water. 


Fertilize monthly with Waterlily World Fertilizer Tabs + Humates for optimum growth, best bloom and ease of use.

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.

You can purchase inexpensive bags of inexpensive / poor Topsoil at Lowes or Home-Depot. Good soil clumps together as a ball in your hand with only a little moisture. 

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!

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