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Originally Posted by BSS I'm no expert at hardscaping, but I'll give a few opinions. I tend to like when rocks/driftwood all fall/lean in the same direction. To me the focal rock on the left side should be rotated 180 degrees so it 'faces' the same way as the bigger formation (which I tend to like as it).
Also, I might tend to move the smaller formation forward a bit, because once the plants get started in there, it could easily disappear.
Good luck!
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Yeah, I think your right on this one. I initially had all of the rocks going the same direction so they looked kinda like they had been jutted up from the ground by a fault shifting or something of that nature. I ended up change it because the rocks I had just weren't shaped the way I wanted. Thanks for the advice, i think I'll probably change it back.
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Originally Posted by Roger Miller My sense of it is that the rocks on the left aren't prominent enough to balance the large grouping on the right. Once you have plants in there the small rocks will be even less prominent and may completely disappear. You might either beef up the grouping on the left or remove it. If you remove it then you will need to move the large grouping a little to the left to preserve the balance.
I'm not clear on what effect you want to get with a background planting of water wisteria. Maybe my imagination just isn't as stretchy today as it sometimes is. You might get a better sense of depth in the tank by using a background plant with darker leaves. Most alternatives will also give you a more manageable aquascape then you will get from water wisteria. |
Thanks man great advice. The problem I was having with making the left side more prominent was that it gave the tank a kind of twin peaks effect that I didn't like. I Then thought about moving the grouping on the right more to the left but it felt too centered then. Perhaps I should revisit that and see how it turns out.
As to the effect I was looking to achieve with the water wisteria... I don't really know. Heh. I suppose what I want from the tank is to keep as much of the background visible as possible and stick to kinda grassy lower growing plants to give it a sort of open sky look. I thought that maybe using small groupings of the wisteria behind the right rock clumping (maybe the left as well if i make it larger) and allowing it to kind of shoot up behind the rocks would look neat and 'maybe' not ruin the (admittedly, minimal) sense of depth I've created. It should be noted that my knowledge of the plant is minimal, so I'm not really sure how it's going to grow in there, but I do know that I liked the leaf structure. Thanks again for the great reply.
I think I'm having a hard time visualizing the way plants will transform the hardscape. If I were looking for a sense of depth and to create a kind of expansive looking space in a small area, what would you all recommend?