[CampCreekTexas]

I've been wanting some of this for a while now and just got some in a few days ago from a Swap&Shop deal. I can't wait to plant it! I need to hook up more lights above two more tanks I set up ~ already stuffed all the ones I have lights on.

I feel the same way about Sunset hygro. I just LOVE the stuff! And H. corymbosa "Angustifolia" ~ it' just awesome!! Both grow just about anywhere in anything and with or without anything added. Being a newbie, this is rather heartening for me. :biggrin:

(BTW, Jen ~ I also just got "The Winter King" in the mail a few days ago ~ it's next up in my "To Be Read" pile, right after "Eragon". Thanks for the tip. )

 

[CampCreekTexas]

Ever just get STUCK on a plant though, and can't get enough of it?

Yep! It's the same in terrestrial gardening. One year it was wandering jews, another year brugmansia (how can you NOT LOVE something like this?! Pink Favorite Brug), another year it was beans, another year... :icon_lol: And these fascinations honestly did last a year at a time, and sometimes more. I just got to where I couldn't get enough of them! Just flat out could not quit looking at them, reading about them, playing with them, getting more of them.:icon_roll :icon_lol:

Man, I can't wait to get my HM planted so I can see what you're talking about. Do you have any pics of how you've used yours? How do you use yours? I'll bet I'll love it. I really do like the pictures I see of it used in a scape. It's such a nice little bush form. That's why I've kept an eye out 'til I finally got some. I've got a crazy idea of doing a veggie garden layout just for fun one of these days, complete with a couple peacock moss trees outside the veggie plot, hycrocotyle trained up some sticks for pole beans, baby microswords for carrots, some kind of hygro for corn, etc. Maybe I can do a formal "potager" and use the HM as box hedges around it! :icon_lol:

(About Eragon ~ I didn't remember 'til you said that that someone had told me the same thing about it ~ maybe that was you? LOL! ~ but of course I forgot that when browsing Amazon.com for something to fill out the $25 free shipping thing so I could get a couple books for my MIL. *sigh* The blurb sounded good at the time. Oh, well. I'm not far into it yet, but so far so good. Hopefully I'll still like it since I don't really do a lot of fantasy reading and last time I saw Star Wars was when it was still in theaters ... the first time.:icon_eek: :icon_lol

 

[CampCreekTexas]

Just how short can you trim this for a carpet and still have it be green and healthy?

I like the church idea, Jen! Sounds too cute! Are you going to add a touch of the morbid and build a cemetery next to it? *snicker* And definitely PM me about your yard. I'm in a very different growing zone than you are, but I'll be happy to help you as much as I can.

 

[CampCreekTexas]

Cool. Thanks for the info both of you. I might try it as a lawn in a higher light tank, once my stepson gets my hoods done (It's SO handy having two sons who are trim carpenters!:hihi.

Ooh! Do you mind if I steal that idea? Imagine little iwagumi grave stones in a yard of HC! Hahaha, OH that'd be too cute!

Go for it! I think that's a FAB idea! LOLOL! Now I can't wait to see it. *snicker*