Habitat-style staging
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- greatnorthernexotic
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Habitat-style staging
This is something I've wanted to try for a while. I've seen a few north American growers and collectors do it. So I built myself a rock pot and staged a little dudleya in it, trying to recreate a look reminiscent for habitat.
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Re: Habitat-style staging
It does look good, doesn't it? But that's a planter worth 8-10 5 cm pots, and when space is a premium...
In one of the recent CW there was a great article about a similar habitat style planting across the whole greenhouse. It looked splendid on photographs.
In one of the recent CW there was a great article about a similar habitat style planting across the whole greenhouse. It looked splendid on photographs.
Mat
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Re: Habitat-style staging
That looks fabulous. Hope your staging is strong!
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Re: Habitat-style staging
Great idea. Is that one big rock with a hole drilled out or have you stuck together a few smaller rocks? (I'm thinking of 'borrowing' your idea for some hardy plants to sit on top of my gabions made in rock to match that that fills the gabions.)
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Re: Habitat-style staging
Mat - yes that's the trade off I'm working through now! Until now I've put everything in BEF pots with the goal of cramming as much as I can into my 4ft x 6ft greenhouse. Now I'm thinking of having fewer plants and staging them up nicely - I just have to figure out which I can bear to part with!
Paul - my staging will be reinforced!
Edds - it's a rock I smashed up and reassembled using superglue and folded tissue paper to join the pieces.
Paul - my staging will be reinforced!
Edds - it's a rock I smashed up and reassembled using superglue and folded tissue paper to join the pieces.
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In the greenhouse: ariocarpus, astrophytum, aztekium, copiapoa, lophophora...
In the outdoor arid bed: hardy agave, aloe, dasylirion, hesperaloe, opuntia, yucca...
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In the greenhouse: ariocarpus, astrophytum, aztekium, copiapoa, lophophora...
In the outdoor arid bed: hardy agave, aloe, dasylirion, hesperaloe, opuntia, yucca...
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Re: Habitat-style staging
Tufa is good for growing plants in directly as it allows water to percolate through. It’s used a lot in alpine gardening. There are some nice examples at Kew. If you can find some it would be worth experimenting with
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Re: Habitat-style staging
There are quite a few You Tube videos out there where people use angle grinders and the like to make containers
out of natural stone. A different approach to consider for making stone containers, as long as you have the kit and
safety gear and can control all the dust that you'd generate!
out of natural stone. A different approach to consider for making stone containers, as long as you have the kit and
safety gear and can control all the dust that you'd generate!
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Re: Habitat-style staging
Tufa is very soft and alkaline though - not sure some of my plants would like that. An Agave utahensis eborispina in one might look good though!
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Re: Habitat-style staging
It's been a while since I looked for any but last time it was all but impossible to get tufa anywhere and, secondhand, it was staggeringly expensive.