gather the following materials:
- The plastic, netted bags that produce sometimes comes in
- Potting soil
- Long Fiber Sphagnum Moss
- A 1:1 mixture of peat moss and perlite
- 1 Spool of jute cord
- Decorative moss
- Sharp Scissors
- Clean, pure water
- Assorted plants (the runners off a Spider plant, some Baby Tears ground-covering from a shady party of my back yard, Scented geranium clippings, and assorted Pinguicula (one of my favorite kinds of carnivorous plant)
After using the pure water to dampen my mosses and soils, mashed fist-sized balls of the peat-perlite mix together and placed them inside the plastic netting. then wove a short piece of jute cord through open part of the netting to close the bag. Then poked holes into the dirt-ball and gently inserted the roots of my Pinguicula into each hole. gave the entire ball a squeeze, carefully avoiding squeezing and breaking any plant leaves. Next, took damp pieces of the Long Fiber Sphagnum Moss and wrapped them around the entire ball. use a long (about 3-foot) piece of the jute cord to wrap around the moss- pulling the cord, adding more moss, wrapping with more cord.. etc. It was a process...
finished when wrapping the cord when my entire ball of peat was covered, the plastic netting no longer visible, and the Pinguicula plants were snug in Sphagnum moss pieces.
And Scented Geranium String Garden...
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