Both bowls look great. I'm up in Northern California and I find that with our dry weather, some things died when I stopped misting every day. I was misting twice a day to help with the transition but all of my stem plants died (limnophila aromatica, rotala colorata). The only thing that's growing now are my four leaf clovers and anchor moss. Good luck though. Keep us updated. The reason I stopped misting was because the wabi kusa was supposed to be a low maintenance centerpiece and twice a day of misting did not seem low maintenance to me.