Name: Monet Painting- Unique color!
Brand: Ten Mile Creek Nursery
SKU: 2MPL-TMC
Price: 40.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Nelumbo nucifera

Color: Versicolor
Height: Medium/Tall, 36" and above
Flower Type: Few-Petal, less than 25 petals
Pot Size: 16" and wider diameter, 10"-14" deep

A true living watercolor, Monet’s Painting is a medium-sized lotus that makes a striking impression with its large, beautifully proportioned flowers and unusual, painterly coloration. The petals blend several tones at once—warm peach, apricot, soft salmon, golden cream, and vivid pink—with the strongest pink concentrated along the margins and tips.

The petals are finely veined, and the translucent coloring gives the flower an almost watercolor-like quality, especially where the peach and yellow tones glow toward the base and transition into rosy edges. The broad outer petals spread gracefully while the inner petals rise toward the center, creating a balanced, open form.

At the center, a bright yellow-green seedpod is encircled by a neat ring of creamy white stamens, providing a luminous focal point against the warmer petals.

One of the particularly appealing traits of Monet’s Painting is its remarkably consistent opening habit. When the flower opens well, the petals arrange themselves into an exceptionally symmetrical, almost perfectly composed bloom—fitting for a lotus named after an artist famous for capturing fleeting impressions of light and color.

HOW TO FERTILIZE LOTUS

For conventional fertilizer (tablets or loose prills) which releases quickly when water is added:

Wait until the lotus plant has several floating leaves or begins to put up aerial leaves before adding fertilizer.
Choose a good fertilizer such as Waterlily World Tablets, Pondtabbs or Landon’s Aquatic Fertilizer and follow the instructions carefully. The amount of fertilizer to use is usually based on the size of the pot and the amount of soil in the pot. For example, most of the small tablets are added at a ratio of 1-2 tablets per gallon of soil in the pot. Once the lotus has started to grow vigorously tablets can be added every 2-3 weeks. Stop fertilizing in late summer to allow the lotus to use up all the fertilizer in the pot before going dormant. This encourages the lotus to form better rhizomes.

For SLOW-RELEASE FERTILIZER like Nutricote 14-4-14, 100 day fertilizer:

*follow amount directions on package. Place fertilizer around the bottom of the pot then add soil. Plant rhizome in the soil at the top of soil layer and let it grow down to find fertilizer. We use slow-release fertilizer but begin adding extra Pondtabbs after 3 months when growth gets vigorous and we continue adding extra fertilizer until late summer.
Do NOT use 360 day fertilizer because it will release fertilizer for too long and the lotus will not form as many rhizomes when it goes dormant.

Monet Painting- Unique color!

Nelumbo nucifera

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