Born-Men Like Fractal Patterns

[kiya]

Spending many bleary hours prowling through message board posts, assimilating random bits of data. I'm being a bit scattershot at the moment, but I suspect I'll go back and be more thorough later when I'm feeling more coherent and expanding my realms of focus. And eventually I'll have assimilated enough information that I won't feel like an idiot asking questions.

One of the things I've been pondering as a long-term goal has been a turtle tank. I like turtles. Having a turtle enclosure would please me massively.

Now I want to grow lotuses and dwarf papyrus, too. Possibly in a different thing; I'm not sure how likely turtles would be to eat the associated foliage.

The major thing that's spinning around my utterly sleep-deprived brain as a result of this is a horrible fear of moving. If I were to dig a large hole to put lotuses in, I'd potentially go away and leave it. Container water gardens are nifty, but I suspect they're harder to maintain. Not to mention move!

But still. Lotuses. And dwarf papyrus. (It'd have to be dwarf; undwarf papyrus grows to something like six feet tall. But a bunch of places give dwarf papyrus at an order of mag of six bucks. Dwarf lotus is more like thirty. It would all be happy.) I went and found a book on container water gardens and added it to My List.

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Thought you said "undead papyrus" for a minute, very strange image. Will you post more about container water gardens when you find out? I am all curious.

[kiya]

I will attempt to make further thoughts on the subject public ones.

I've helped maintain a stationary water garden -- when my parents built the addition on Dad's house, they had the backhoe scoop out a chunk of backyard, and we turned that into a pond. They can be pretty complicated to maintain, but I've seen the work involved and I think I can handle it in the abstract.

The mad tinkerer in me has a craving for a variety of pots all filtered through with fountains and tubing and the like, a sort of vast ecological Rube Goldberg device. I suspect that wouldn't go over very well, though. ;)

[sstaten.livejournal.com]

You should do the turtles.

Turtles are cool :^)

(Hell, with enough advanced warning, I could even come help set things up)