They sure are!
Oh, TY Just though of this memory.
Visiting my cousin who living in L.A. at the time. She was driving me around. I think we were near Echo Lake.
Anyway I looked to my left, there was a pond with ? 35+ tall pink lotuses all in bloom!!! Omg, it was *glorious*!
Oh, one other memory.
I was going to aay - I've never seen that many all together like that in our NYC Botanical Gardens.
But, actually...
It was waaay back in the early '80's when I discovered the NY (Bronx) BG had lotuses. There's 2 big aquatic gardens. Lots of 🙂 waterlillies, and lotuses.
In this one pond; picture the area near, and at the corner. A wooden walkway goes out over the water, then makes a 90° turn and goes back to the concrete walking area. It closes off a rectangular space (think of a capital "L" ). Within that space, and one the other side of the long part of the walkway are those tall pink lotuses! Maybe 20, maybe more.
I really have to contact someone there to to see if they have old photos!
Anyway, one-time it was fairy breezy. Those big leaves were slapping against each other; it sounded like big pieces of leather that hadn't yet been cut for clothing, or bags slapping against against each being tossed down on a table.
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