I’m Currently Obsessed with…
…water plants.
Years ago, I saw in an old issue of Martha Stewart Living pictures of water plants being grown in glass jars indoors. I loved the way these looked and decided to use this idea when we were planning Q’s nursery.
We had a bunch of old jars left over from our wedding decorations so I used these as containers. Using monofiliament tied in macrame knots, I then hung them from hooks in the window of Q’s room.
At first, I didn’t know where to get water plants so I just took clipping from plants that I had around the house. They would root in the water, and live for a little while before getting all goopy and gross with algae. I got recommendations from a few people who had ponds and they said to check out Hill Haven. This place is wonderful. The woman who worked there was extremely helpful and I ended up getting a number of different plants including Temple Plants, Taro (Black Magic), Parrots Feather, Water Lettuce, Duckweed, Azolla, and Salvinia.
-c.
Tags: Garden
Toby Goodshank - September 27, 2010 5:11 pm
these thangs is gorgeous!
Rob UK - September 29, 2010 7:03 pm
Nice idea.
How often do you have to change the water, or do they self-clean to some extent?
Andrew and Crystal - September 30, 2010 9:55 pm
@Toby: Thanks sir!
@Rob UK: I asked the same thing to the woman who I bought them from. She said I shouldn't have to clean them, but I may have to occasionally refill the water or change the water if it seemed to be getting murky. So far, so good!
-c.