Gwendolyn’s Golden Glow Lotus - Sunshine on a Stem!

 Nelumbo nucifera

 "Good day, Sunshine..."

#1 Yellow Lotus Flower
BEST SELLER! BEST BLOOMER!

Flower Color: Yellow
Plant Height: Medium, 2'-4'
Flower Type: Multi-Petal, more than 50 petals
Pot Size: 16" or wider, 10"-14" deep

If you could plant a little sunshine in your pond, it might look exactly like Gwendolyn’s Golden Glow!

Gwendolyn’s Golden Glow is pure sunshine on a stem! This beautiful lotus opens into a wonderfully round, full flower, glowing in soft, luminous shades of creamy yellow and warm golden ivory. Its abundance of delicately layered petals gives the bloom a lovely, fluffy, almost peony-like appearance.

As the flower opens, the petals seem to gather sunlight and turn it into a warm golden glow. The rounded form makes each bloom look almost like a little ball of sunshine floating above the water—and the cheerful green seedpod provides the perfect contrast.

But the real magic of Gwendolyn’s Golden Glow is its long blooming season. This is a lotus that doesn't make you wait around for its moment in the spotlight—it blooms all summer long, bringing its sunny flowers to the garden again and again.

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.