zozo
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Springtime is rocking again! Still a tad cool at this time of the year, but it doesn't seem to bother the plants in the tubs... 🙂
All survived the winter and are growing happily... Even the young Willow tree i planted 2 years back is growing like a champ and needs a trim again...
The bog fern in the filter box is sprouting again...
Skybox occupied again...
Typha and some others, nothing seems to stay behind.
Some Salvinia sp. kept om thriving all winter long, seems to turn deep red during cold periods. Also, Hydrocothyl is still all over the place.
The experimental airlift pump on a solar power air pump works like a charm... 🙂 Now and then...
I moved the Potentilla to the little aquarium and it grew very well hanging over and growing on submerged runners, I always wanted to see how this plant grows and looks behind glass spreading its wooden-like stems and roots submerged over the substrate. Indoors I tried but this never worked for me, I don't have the light source for it. But I think it looks kinda nice with its foliage that emerged from the wooden-like stems and roots underwater. With the correct lights, this would be a nice scaping alternative indoors.
Most curious and what I didn't expect is the Alisma lancelot (Water plantain) in the background it survived the winter in a submerged form. Also this i tried indoors, but no go not enough light either way. But if this is enough it definitively has a submerged grow form. It stayed submerged from the day I planted it last year. No idea how it will mature and emerges later on. Now it grows with very thin grass-like leaves... Emerged it more like resembles Helanthium tenellum.
Also still have a baby Sacred Blue Nile Lotus in there, still a very tiny one, I hope it might flower this summer but a doubt it...
We will see!?... The start is already promising something... 🙂
All survived the winter and are growing happily... Even the young Willow tree i planted 2 years back is growing like a champ and needs a trim again...
The bog fern in the filter box is sprouting again...
Skybox occupied again...
Typha and some others, nothing seems to stay behind.
Some Salvinia sp. kept om thriving all winter long, seems to turn deep red during cold periods. Also, Hydrocothyl is still all over the place.
The experimental airlift pump on a solar power air pump works like a charm... 🙂 Now and then...
I moved the Potentilla to the little aquarium and it grew very well hanging over and growing on submerged runners, I always wanted to see how this plant grows and looks behind glass spreading its wooden-like stems and roots submerged over the substrate. Indoors I tried but this never worked for me, I don't have the light source for it. But I think it looks kinda nice with its foliage that emerged from the wooden-like stems and roots underwater. With the correct lights, this would be a nice scaping alternative indoors.
Most curious and what I didn't expect is the Alisma lancelot (Water plantain) in the background it survived the winter in a submerged form. Also this i tried indoors, but no go not enough light either way. But if this is enough it definitively has a submerged grow form. It stayed submerged from the day I planted it last year. No idea how it will mature and emerges later on. Now it grows with very thin grass-like leaves... Emerged it more like resembles Helanthium tenellum.
Also still have a baby Sacred Blue Nile Lotus in there, still a very tiny one, I hope it might flower this summer but a doubt it...
We will see!?... The start is already promising something... 🙂
