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Garden Inspiration Day

March 17, 2013

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... new memories

in cities where we fell in love

-A. DiFranco

Back to old haunts at Lake Merritt for gardening ideas.

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Day Six

Rest day from hunching over the drafting table. So, we make fresh beats instead. This one is quick and simple - part of a larger project I'm working on. Working title is, of course, "Day Six". Funny thing is, the riff I had in mind at the start sounded no where near what this wound up being. Interesting how the process uncovers other ideas. Anyhow, I'll figure out how to embed an mp3 player eventually, but you can listen to the track here .

Welcome to the Terra-Dome

First attempt at a terrarium: I'll probably do this one over again now that I have a better sense of what's involved. 1) The moss is way too long and bushy, and 2) I exposed too much soil along the glass sides (not pictured). I used three kinds of moss -- Scottish, Irish, and something packaged as "Frog Moss" I found at a pet store. The mini "trees" are Myoporum, typically used as a groundcover. Not sure how they'll do w/ the moss as their sun and water needs are different. They're supposed to flower in spring and summer (with the right conditions). The small terrarium in the last pic is from madebymavis at Etsy, a gift from Lisa.

The Sticky Green

Rainy-day gardening. Tree No. 2 is a Dwarf Myrtle. I'm trying a technique I found on youtube about using sphagnum moss to develop better nebari. This tree's surface roots are pretty good already, but this tree looked to have had a rough time at the nursery and made a good candidate for testing. I'll start thinning out the branches if it still alive in a month or so. It's basically re-potted in sphagnum moss, with the original nursery soil underneath the moss layer. . . . Tree No. 3 is a Forsythia. The trunk and roots are crazy, and I bought the plant just because of that. I'm not wild about the leaf shape and size. Forsythia flowers profusely in late winter (I missed it) on old wood, so it made a good candidate for serious pruning. I'm leaving it in the nursery pot to help ease the trauma.

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