IN the summer garden, few plants are as refreshing or riveting as flowers growing in still water, and of those, none is as dramatic as the Asian lotus. These are the blooms that have slowed traffic on ...

With summer setting in, it’s nice to know that there are some plants that don’t requiring watering — at least from a hose. Lotus is an aquatic plant that thrives in hot weather, producing an abundance ...

Do you admire the serenity of Lotus blooms in ponds and wish to have one of your own? While you can’t turn your terrace into a pond, there’s still a lot you can do to get a close enough experience. A ...

The Day of the Lotus might as well be called the Day of the Dead. Echo Park’s famous lotus beds are nothing more than a scattering of a few sickly, brownish pads floating in foul-smelling water, a ...