my little hideout

[shawnchen]

To cut a long story short, I was growing orchids and airplants before getting poisoned by neps. Although the airplants were growing well at my home (high rise HDB flat in Singapore) the neps were not really doing that well and I knew the airplants would do better out in the open also. After a few months of searching, I finally found a suitable place to house them

Here's the pics!

This was my previous nep setup, march 2011


and this was taken when I first moved ALL my neps outdoors, May 2011


afterwhich I built a rack to hang my tillandsias and other plants


july 2011, filling up nicely


added some episcias as groundcover, trying to hide the ugly tray, Sept 2011


I then constructed a small waterproof structure to put my small collection of cacti and succulents


here it is now, Oct 2011. Two trays almost full, wallet already empty

[allenphoon]

wow...i wish i got these space, in my house, every nep had to stuck together very compact

[shawnchen]

Actually my nep pots are all squeezed together also, if not there wun be enough space...

[jimmy0123]

Waaa.... Great transformation. Just curious, the tray of water, how do you prevent mosquitoes from breeding? Do you make holes in the tray?

[shawnchen]

Originally Posted by jimmy0123

Waaa.... Great transformation. Just curious, the tray of water, how do you prevent mosquitoes from breeding? Do you make holes in the tray?

actually, the tray is like a mini pond, there are tadpoles, guppies, dragonfly and damselfly nymphs and other little critters inside, so no mozzies

[paphioboy]

nice. out of curiosity is the area surrounding the rack the compound of your house? if so, you sure have a LOT of space... :P