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Posted: May/09/2009 1:56 PM PST
Greetings, I am new to Garden Community. I am sick of fish, I have a 40 gallon acquarium that I think I want to turn into a fern and moss terriarium with a small water fall included to add moisture. All ferns that i have put in flowerbeds did not make it past 2 years. so I would like to try my luck in creating a microworld . Any suggestions. NoNos or thoughts. Anything would be helpful. So far i have a 6 inch birdsnest fern that I would like to start with. also I would like to get in on the end of season sales at the garden center. so I would like to have the miniworld all setup and ready for the little forest that I would like to create. Thanks for the help on this endevior. ubusdad98 |
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Posted: May/10/2009 6:46 AM PST
Welcome to Garden Guides. What a wonderful idea! I don't know doodley-squat about ferns, but I fear I have been bitten by the fern bug. I have one fern and I don't know what it is. We just call it Aunt Winnie's mountain fern. It took me years to get it to grow in my flower bed and now it's popping up everywhere. Also last year a friend gave me some iris and lilies, which had a wild fern, I guess it was, in with them. I actually wintered it over in a pot outside. This year I planted it. Then I discovered one just like it growing under the porch steps. I dug it up and planted it near the other one. Now I'm thrilled every time I look at them growing. Ferns are becoming more beautiful to me all the time. Whoops! Sorry, I got carried away. (Dang that fern bug!) I hope that the fern lovers here at Garden Guides will see your question and give you suggestions. Then you can keep us up with your project. I'd love to see pictures as you go along! |
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Posted: May/10/2009 9:56 AM PST
Thanks for the reply. I think it would be a wonderful hobby to watch the forest of ferns mature and become a micro world . with time mabey a frog or lizard or two. Hopefully I can get enough information to get this going. wondering if a grow light the long type bulb would be enough light and heat or do I need to get a snake rock to help warm it up. or mabey a heating pad under the acquarium??? thinking of ways to make little huts and things to put in it hehehe Kenneth PS U can never get carried away when talking about gardening. |
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Posted: May/10/2009 11:20 AM PST
Hi Kenneth -- I'm a fern lover (as Witt put it), but unfortunately my experience is only with outdoor ferns. Good luck with your project. It sounds like it will be beautiful when it's done. |
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Posted: Jul/23/2009 9:42 PM PST
just an idea dont know if it would work. if you look at moss, some of them look just like minature ferns. they usely grow on tree stumps in the woods also there is a beautiful fern that grows on dead wood, a colection of singel stems. and there is also moss with them. |
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