KiraQ
Seedling
Hi there.
I am a woman in her 60s who has been retired for just over 3 years now and getting somewhat bored with my life with the amount of time I spend watching YouTube videos on gardening and house plant care & propagation and not doing half enough creativity other than having a kitchen almost full of propagated houseplants in compost and a small garden full of easy to grow veg, fruit and decorative shrubs.
I have ventured into propagating houseplants in water for a while but the amount of variation and the time it takes for a new plant to materialise makes it all somewhat tedious and so I have begun to watch YT videos in creating semi-aquatic and aquatic plant-scapes - I am not confident I could go beyond this to include fauna at this stage. As a result, I have been watching a few channels, including Serpa Design and MD Fish Tanks and I feel able to enter the shallow end of creating an aquascape or 2 being blessed with more time than most.
I fell upon this forum after watching a lovely video on creating a Wabi-Kusa presentation which seems to be a baby-steps way of getting into this interesting pastime, though you might say there is something a lot easier to start with of course since on this subject, I am currently as dim as the proverbial Toc H lamp.
Living on just my state pension, I want to be able to create these beautiful and hopefully survivable concoctions on a limited budget, something the lad at Serpa Designs seems to address quite often in his videos.
So, that is why I am here and so any tips or links to get me started will be greatly appreciated.
Hugs from York
Kira
I am a woman in her 60s who has been retired for just over 3 years now and getting somewhat bored with my life with the amount of time I spend watching YouTube videos on gardening and house plant care & propagation and not doing half enough creativity other than having a kitchen almost full of propagated houseplants in compost and a small garden full of easy to grow veg, fruit and decorative shrubs.
I have ventured into propagating houseplants in water for a while but the amount of variation and the time it takes for a new plant to materialise makes it all somewhat tedious and so I have begun to watch YT videos in creating semi-aquatic and aquatic plant-scapes - I am not confident I could go beyond this to include fauna at this stage. As a result, I have been watching a few channels, including Serpa Design and MD Fish Tanks and I feel able to enter the shallow end of creating an aquascape or 2 being blessed with more time than most.
I fell upon this forum after watching a lovely video on creating a Wabi-Kusa presentation which seems to be a baby-steps way of getting into this interesting pastime, though you might say there is something a lot easier to start with of course since on this subject, I am currently as dim as the proverbial Toc H lamp.
Living on just my state pension, I want to be able to create these beautiful and hopefully survivable concoctions on a limited budget, something the lad at Serpa Designs seems to address quite often in his videos.
So, that is why I am here and so any tips or links to get me started will be greatly appreciated.
Hugs from York
Kira