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Old 20-05-2004, 01:12 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default In search of tiny plants!


In article , "Anne Hedden" writes:
| Thanks everyone, I'll definately look into the families you suggested. Yes,
| I consider lichens plants. Maybe I should have said "plant life" to make it
| sound more general.
|
| I'm making a floating garden, based around magnets. Floating in the air,
| that is. My own little, floating world on my desk. And to think they said
| I had a God complex. Hence the styrofoam. The magnet part is coming along
| slowly, need some more equipment next paycheck, but the design should work
| in theory.

Then DEFINITELY look at epiphytes and plants that grow on rocks.
Spanish moss (a bromeliad, though it looks much like a lichen)
will stay small for a long time.

It could certainly be the next thing for executives to upstage
their competition with :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.