By Li Zhong Hangzhou Daily

Recently, with the climate continuing to be warm and wet, new lotuses in the West Lake grow very fast, some of which have grown out of the water levels. According to Huang Shuilin, the team leader of the Afforestation Team of the Administration Office of the West Lake, up to now, lotuses this year have grown up well, and tourists can see lotuses blossom at the end of May or at the beginning of June if the weather permits. However, it is the key period of cultivating lotuses, because new leafstalks of lotuses are easy to be gnawed and eaten by fishes such as grass carps. He warned tourists not to put any kind of fish into the lotus-planting region.