My Masterly Inactivity and Mini Water Garden Concept

My Masterly Inactivity and Mini Water Garden Concept

My Masterly Inactivity and Mini Water Garden Concept was total failure.

My favorite plant Vallisneria took total control of the fish tank and there was no breathing or swimming space for the little guppy fish or other water plants.

Fortuitously though, a few golden yellow Guppy mutants emerged out of the blue. 

 

With perseverance, I managed to raise about 20 beautiful ones.

I went into active participation or total interference with mother nature. 

Uprooted large bucket full of Vallisneria and replaced it with a carefully controlled pot of Vallisneria rared in open air.

Well I was anticipating the take over strategy of Vallisneria.

It is hard to find water plants and Japanese fern. Vallisneria and Hydrilla are few of my favorites out of the 22 odd water plants I collected over 15 years.

They will perish within a month of my demise since nobody wants touch the dirty buckets with Guppy fish and water plants.

Lately my interest is water lilies and there are at least five varieties to greet me with flowers.

I added two more varieties.

One bloomed after 2 years. 

It is very difficult to grow water lilies and a visitor pinches a leaf it goes into hibernation for one to two years.

Except one, I took all of them to the roof top garden and with the little rain and my care (means masterly inactivity), they are surviving for the last five years.

The one with yellow flowers never bloomed.

That was the first one and I am beginning to ignore it expecting it to surprise me one day.

Mind you Guppy fish (it was when I was a kid) was not my current interest except for controlling mosquitoes but they keep on luring me with beautiful colours.