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On 20 acres surrounded by farmland a few miles outside of Fresno, a small pond attracted visitors all summer from around California and as far away as North Carolina.
They came to Fresno County to see flowers with hues of pink, white, yellow and gold growing from stalks in the water. Some of them hadn’t seen the bloom of the Lotus — a plant abundant in Southeast Asia and held sacred in Buddhism — since leaving their homelands as refugees decades ago…