Nelumbo nucifera 'Delicate Hand', bowl lotus, shipped as a dormant lotus tuber.

Delicate Hand is a miniature lotus with pink petals that open into a sculpted star shape around a warm golden center. Each petal blushes to a peachy gold toward its base.

The petals are pointed and curve upward, a bit like a small hand opening. It blooms often, so you get a steady run of flowers through the season.

At a glance

• Flower color: Pink
• Flower type: Single, fewer than 25 petals
• Plant height: Bowl (micro to mini)
• Container: 6" and wider, 4"-10" deep

As a bowl lotus, this one settles at 2 to 12 inches of water over the crown once established. Start a new tuber under 2 to 4 inches and raise the level as it pushes aerial leaves, with the growing tip left uncovered. Pot size, soil and the rest of the method are in the lotus planting instructions.

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