What Can Be Achieved

[Themuleous]

Hi All,

Just wanted to post this link to one of Oliver Knott's pages, to highlight that you dont have to have expensive rock and wood hardscaping to create a great scape. I'm sure these rocks could be found almost anywhere!

Sam

Oliver Knott

 

[RadaR]

Wow, its beautiful. Though I bet you that my lfs wouldn't have those rocks/stones hehe.

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Yeah nice aqua-scape, those pebbles are every where, garden centres, well any where.
Its all about composition, it not just the stone its where you place it.

 

[scubadoo]

The rocks I think I could manage - as for the rest of it ....


ummmmm

well out of my abilities (and wallet) at the mo', but we can dream and

Nice site tho' - loads of great ideas there.

 

[Themuleous]

yeh guess its like having the same football boots as beckham, doesn't make you a great footballer! But people, including me! have fallen into the trap of thinking that to get a great scape you have to have all the same stuff as the 'professional' and clearly you don't

Sam

 

[madcaow]

mad tank. stones like that are in all the rivers around here.

doesnt look too hard that.

 

[George Farmer]

Oliver is a creative genius. Interesting plant choice also - Utricularia graminifolia, Pogostemon helferi, Vallisneria nana. Species we rarely see over here but they are all available from Tropica.

Thanks for sharing Sam.

 

[Themuleous]

Yeh you're right George, the P.helferi on the sides almost acts like a dense stand of stem plants.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Oliver is a creative genius. Interesting plant choice also - Utricularia graminifolia, Pogostemon helferi, Vallisneria nana. Species we rarely see over here but they are all available from Tropica.

Thanks for sharing Sam.

I have all of those plant species currently on order through Birstall (along with some others) .......
Can't imagine I'll get them looking like that though



Nice post Sam !

guess its like having the same football boots as beckham, doesn't make you a great footballer!

I may end up with the same boots ..... but mine will be 2 sizes too small and I'll be playing a different sport !

 

[craynerd]

Can't imagine I'll get them looking like that though

Sure you can if you put your mind to it.

Draw a plan and stick to it

Chris

 

[MoreCoffee]

I wanted to try some 'different' plants to the ones I usually get ..... most of these are not available on Birstall's site, but are listed at Tropica.

My current thoughts are to use the Utricularia graminifolia for the foreground, with the Pogostemon helferi
worked in between that and the base of some weeping moss covered sumatran driftwood.

Some Bacopa australis, to give some height around the edges and some Lilaeopsis macloviana or Val. nana at the back.There should also be a hint of copper colour using a little Proserpinaca palustris ''Cuba'' (should match the driftwood quite well).

Not really sure if they will all be available or if I ordered enough of the U. graminifolia & P. helferi. (particularly the U. graminifolia for the foreground)

I've also got some Eleocharis acicularis & Rotala sp. 'Nanjenshan' coming as a backup to fill any gaps in the order.

............. anyway, more on that next week !

 

[Themuleous]

You can order any of the tropica plants through Birstall you just have to add it to the 'additional comments' box when ordering. Give them a call and they'll explain.

Sam

 

[MoreCoffee]

You can order any of the tropica plants through Birstall you just have to add it to the 'additional comments' box when ordering. Give them a call and they'll explain.

Sam

Thanks Sam, I've done it a few times .... This order went in last Saturday. They always put their Tropica orders in on a Monday (around lunchtime)

It's always worth checking if you do that though ... first time I did it they only print off the front sheet and NOT the additional comments !!

Still they seem to know me now and they know I'll check the order when I put it in and also the quality of the plants when I collect them !

Al

 

[mandi]

That is beautiful! And only 10-wks after setting it up? Wow.