An old variety from Beijing. Its name comes from the tradition to portray the Buddha usualy sitting on a lotus. This tradition again goes back to the buddhist legend that Buddha was born in a lotus bud. The flower of this variety is pale pink, slightly double but in full bloom opened flatly like ...
`Dagadong` is a white flowering lotus from Korea. Usualy a white lotus is nothing special, but in the case of Korea there are hardly any native white varieties - nobody can explain why. This one comes from the garden of Koreas national poet Garam. It was almost extinct when house and garden were renovated, ...
A variety by Slocum from 1988, that isn`t available from his nursery anymore. We received it from a friend in Japan. When I take a close look on the flower I`m not surprise by this detour. It is a medium sized lotus with single white flowers. The design of the flowers is very minimalistic and clear, ...
In China there are hundreds if not thousands lotus varieties. Most of them do not haven an `offical` name or are grown only localy. Many of this local varieties exist only with a population of a few plants and in some case it may be just a single plant that exists. Since the 1980ies this horticultural ...
One of the last hybrids by Perry D. Slocum. It is medium sized and the pink flower is double. At the end of its life span each flower becomes very flat, the seed head then looks as if it was sitting on a pink diner plate. This variety is remarkably more floriferous than `Rosea Plena`.
This lotos is result of our own breeding programm. It is a medium sized one, bearing single pink flowers. Although Nelumbo lutea is one of its parents there is no bit of yellow in its flower. It is thoroughly pink. Its name translates `Elves Magic`.
The name of this variety translates `Golden Oriole`. It is the name of a yellow and black bird - do you know it? Probably not, for it is a rather rare bird in Central Europe. In ancient China `Oriole` was a common pet-name for women. To be more exact: a common pet-name for concubines. The `Golden ...
Since Harry Potter was here the Phoenix is again a well known mythical creature in these parts of the world. While in Europe it used to be a symbol of resurection and eternal life, it is in China mainly a symbol of good luck. Like usual the `yellow` of the flowers is quite pale, but in reality more ...
A variety by Perry D. Slocum with a somewhat misleading name. When we received it I expected a giant variety of lotus. It grew very vigorous but no hint of gigantic size. Well, I though, it will be a `late bloomer`, let`s wait for the giant to show up. But when I was able to look DOWN oni ...
At times Chinese names for lotus varieties simply leave me speechless or let me think of a translation error. This one translates: `Three Drunkards on a Jade Tower`. My Chinese grand cousin in law rejected all my belittlements (`sure it means just someone who is tipsy?`) and insisted it was ...
We received this lotus in 2006 from Korea. It is a medium sized, rose-red variety with single flowers. Like all Korean lotuses it proofed very adaptable to our climate.
This lotus marks in two ways a last point in the work of Perry D. Slocum. It is the last lotus he introduced to the market (in 2001), and it is the last lotus he named after one of his wifes (he named `Mrs. Perry D. Slocum` after his first and `Maggie Belle Slocum` after his second wife). Louise ...
This is another variety from our own lotus breeding program. In 2011 we offered it for the first time. The flowers of this variety are pure white and very double. They look like a smaller version of `Shiroman`, but this one is much more floriferous. The name `Mindelperle`(`Pearl of River Mindel`) refers...
The origin of this variety is unknown. An Australian collector brought it to Australia from a collecting tour through China - together with many other varieties. If you want to introduce plants to Australia they plants have to go through a long and complicated way through quarantine. Only a few of ...
Slocum dedicated his most successfull lotus variety to his first wife (he was married three times very happily became over 90 years old - the lotuses of his two later wifes are `Maggie Belle Slocum` and `Louise Slocum`) . It is a variety with double flowers and its colours are more or less the same ...
This lotus was introduced to the market by Perry D. Slocum auf den Markt gebracht. It is probably an import from China, and probably a cross of the American and the Asian lotus. It is medium sized and bears single flowers in yellow and pink. Since it got very short rhizomes it is very good suited ...
The name of this variety translates `Dragonfly`. There are two explanations for it. On some flowers the pistils grow out and sit on the flower heads. Unlike with other varieties they are not pure green but are covered with red marks. Perhaps the hybridizer saw in them red dragonflies sitting on the ...
This one translates `Rain Moon` in English. Rain moon is the sixth month of the old Japanese calendar, it is the beginning of the rain period. While we use to tell ghost stories in winter, the Japanese do so during the rain period in summer. The double white flower of this lotus variety really looks like a pale full moon.
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