Sacred Datura or jimson weed is another highly poisonous weed used in gardens in west coast... well not so much now maybe... but fun thing is it's highly hallucinogenic (traditional uses of native people along west coast were for shamansitc/ medicinal related uses)... but much of the nightshade family group are used as ornamentals... and even crops...
Leafmite, what an adorable little water garden! Reminds me of when i was growing up when i had a little water garden in a half barrel- had some shubunkins, a dwarf tropical water lily (estacion and i were discussing the other month, it's called dauben blue really awesome little lily), and a hoard of other water plants... frogbit, water hyacinth (had to throw that stuff out a lot grows so fast), water lettuce, anacharis, an aponogeton, so much... grew up in OH, so i remember having to take stuff in and over winter... oof that's a job...
We have a lot of fish in the household, something like 10x tanks, 6 of which are for fish... you'd think that would raise the humidity of our apt/ condo but the fish are under the other half's jurisdiction and he's been covering them more tightly to deal with water loss other wise he's filling them every few days LOL
mosquito fish can apparently handle up to 100+ degree water, and salinity levels higher than general sea water for some periods of time! They supposedly offer them for free here in LA.
Optimist, great idea about the pond for the growing area. If I had space on my tiny balcony for the outdoor stuff, I'd do the same...
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