Humidifying Your Plants

Some of my flock have advice on watering, spritzing, fertilizing... some have a polite request for them to stand in a saucer of wet pebbles to increase the humidity immediately around them.

I though to myself: hang on, I can kill two birds with one stone here and have myself the soothing sounds of a babbling brook AND happy plants just by getting a water feature that can do both!

Except...

...that it does not fucking exist. 

I have looked high and low, and apart from buying a fucking CAT DRINKING FOUNTAIN for two hundred quid, there's nothing remotely resembling what I envisaged.

All I wanted was a shallow, two tier fountain - round or square, not fussed - with pebbles in both parts and water gently bubbling up in the top tier to flow into the bottom tier. Plants propped up in the pebbles for humidity reasons (water not touching the bottoms obviously), maybe some pretty lights in there as well...

So fuck it. Looks like I'll be fucking MAKING one.

• Trays (two different sizes): £11
• Water pump: £7
• Pebbles: gonna go beachcombing but I've also got gravel and slate from the garden centre already
• Waterproof firefly lights: already got a bunch for my terrarium project

Now, this should be a fairly simple operation of arranging and securing the trays at the right height, putting a hole through the top one for the pump to feed up to, a small hole in the back of the bottom one for the power cable to poke through, seal both with silicone sealant, check it all works... then empty it out, stack with cleaned stones and pretty lights, fill, check it STILL works... add planties. I'll probably surround the pump with some kind of filter, just in case.

My dad has offered to help with the build, he's a certified sparky and between the two of us I'm sure we can knock this out the park in short order. Gonna look out my glue gun in case it might be handy, and I'm wondering about some poly pipe to act as a stand for the upper tier... Gonna be an awesome project!

UPDATE!

I've simplified the design, one tier only, let's see how this goes instead. Should be building on Monday 28th!

The other tray just has pebbles and water in it for some of my other moisture-loving planties, so it's not been a wasted purchase. But I'm well chuffed with what we've managed to put together for the main feature!

Hopefully this will raise the humidity and keep my planties happy!