Serendipitous snooping lands me here -- with summer winding down here in the Northeast, I'm getting nervous about a long winter. I've learned that the sempervivum seedlings that led me to ATP have to be left outdoors now (I'm already having withdrawal symptoms).
My jury-rigged lightstand is filling up with chopped back tropicals that spent the summer outdoors (we buy them to make the place look nice for our 3 months of summer -- I let the others think that is what we are doing -- so I can pick one of each to bring in to keep me company the rest of the year!
) I need something else. I did the bottle terrarium thing probably 20 years ago and don't want to repeat that. They lasted several years with patient pruning and moving using every skinny, long-handled tool I could borrow from the kitchen. Too much work and "been there; done that..."
Mother Anna finally admitted she saw a volunteer accidentally kick in the side of our goldfish aquarium when it was being moved into the new monastery building 10 years ago and she threw it away.
(I knew we had it and looked everywhere for it!)
So where do I start? Maybe an ad in the Pennysaver to see if anyone around here has an aquarium they don't want anymore since I know a large budget will be vetoed for this project? I found some (3) stacked apothecary jars for only $20 and they would do if I go out to the woods and bring in some Partridgeberry. That would be pretty!
But I have to confess I'm really tempted by the mention somewhere here of starting an indoor tropical carnivorous plant bog and that would need the larger aquarium -- plus buying the plants slowly. I had some tropical pitcher plant seeds I started at the same time as my semps, but nothing came of it, even though I left them in the fridge for the required time...
Well, if you don't hear from me here again you'll know I gave up the idea. If I figure out how to weasel in a terrarium somehow, I'll be back!
MR
