Resource New video on choosing and placing plants in an aquascape

[Jeff Miotke]

Hi all! New video up where I share how I select and place plants for my aquascapes. Using my forest scape as an example. Not about foreground, midground and background. Terms which I get but just detest as I feel labeling them this way limits creativity. What do you think? Hope the video helps.

 

[Capraquaria]

Thank you, plant selection is something I seriously struggle with, and here's to NOT burying all the hardscape! Now I want to scape a redwood forest, though. Before wildfire chased us out a few years ago, we lived in the redwoods for over 30 years, along the coast range in Santa Cruz. There were areas of our last property where the redwood canopy was so dense that only that shamrock-like plant would grow at the base of the trees, and was one of my favorite native groundcover plants. Redwood Sorrel (Oxalis oregana). Marsilea is a great choice, not only in leaf structure, but also in scale. I don't know if you got to see Redwood Sorrel in bloom while you were at Muir Woods, but it has lovely delicate pink flowers (ancient photo from my blogging days). They are often missed because the petals stay closed on cloudy and rainy days.

 

[JayP]

This was alternate universe Jeff. No soft background music, no silent contemplation, but a lot of throwing stuff.

 

[Jeff Miotke]

Thank you, plant selection is something I seriously struggle with, and here's to NOT burying all the hardscape! Now I want to scape a redwood forest, though. Before wildfire chased us out a few years ago, we lived in the redwoods for over 30 years, along the coast range in Santa Cruz. There were areas of our last property where the redwood canopy was so dense that only that shamrock-like plant would grow at the base of the trees, and was one of my favorite native groundcover plants. Redwood Sorrel (Oxalis oregana). Marsilea is a great choice, not only in leaf structure, but also in scale. I don't know if you got to see Redwood Sorrel in bloom while you were at Muir Woods, but it has lovely delicate pink flowers (ancient photo from my blogging days). They are often missed because the petals stay closed on cloudy and rainy days.

View attachment 18616Yea tht is amazing. It was not in flower when I visited in late July.