A had a lotus my DD bought for me last year, well I was going to overwinter it inside my house, I put it in my pantry and I forgot about it for awhile and looked one day , I looked like dried cement, I really hated that, I felt so bad, had to tell my DD what I had done.
I took it out to the pond in put it in the water and forgot about again, one day as I looked at the pond I saw some smaller leaves and couldn't figure out what it was. IT WAS MY LOTUS , CAME BACK TO LIFE. YEA !!!!!!