Post by mcmcnair on Mar 27, 2012 14:47:41 GMT
I have been volunteering at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh, NC for the past few months and today we FINALLY were able to install the new carnivorous plant display that I designed. I would have preferred to have used live sphagnum but there was a very limited amount available. Hopefully in the next few weeks we will be replacing the dried LFS with live LFS. Before I came along no one had done anything to the display in years. The display was supposed to showcase North Carolina carnivorous plants and the plants that can be found in the areas where they grow. The pictures say everything that really needs to be said. Enjoy!
First, The Before
Breaking Down the display
After taking out all the plants
The plants that will be going back in
The plants that had no business being in the display
All the old soil after being taken out of the display
Fast Foward a Week...
Putting the rocks back in
Adding the freshly washed Pool Filter(quartz silica) Sand
Building up the stream banks with more rocks
Trying to run the stream for the first time and watering in the banks
Adding the final layers of sand and the buffer layer of dried LFS
The buffer layer of LFS to catch any runoff peat/sand
The peat/sand mix added
The finished product with a layer of dried and live LFS on top
Some closeups of the plants
P. primuliflora
VFT and two S. purpurea venosa
S. rubra rubra in the front; Xyris, D. capillaris, and D. rotundifolia in the middle, and S. oreophila in the back
S. oreophila and D. capillaris and D. rotundifolia
Closeups of the entire display
The entire display
The before again for comparison
First, The Before
Breaking Down the display
After taking out all the plants
The plants that will be going back in
The plants that had no business being in the display
All the old soil after being taken out of the display
Fast Foward a Week...
Putting the rocks back in
Adding the freshly washed Pool Filter(quartz silica) Sand
Building up the stream banks with more rocks
Trying to run the stream for the first time and watering in the banks
Adding the final layers of sand and the buffer layer of dried LFS
The buffer layer of LFS to catch any runoff peat/sand
The peat/sand mix added
The finished product with a layer of dried and live LFS on top
Some closeups of the plants
P. primuliflora
VFT and two S. purpurea venosa
S. rubra rubra in the front; Xyris, D. capillaris, and D. rotundifolia in the middle, and S. oreophila in the back
S. oreophila and D. capillaris and D. rotundifolia
Closeups of the entire display
The entire display
The before again for comparison
:
