Glass Jar Garden

Stones and wood

Pagoda stone as drawn in the simulator

Pagoda stone

Dark stone built from thin stacked layers.

What the simulation uses

Holds water
1 % by volume
Water it keeps after draining; the rest runs down to the drainage.
Pore space
3 % by volume
Room for air and water between grains; low means roots suffocate when wet.
Weight
2550 g/L
How heavy a litre is.
pH
7 to 7.5 pH
How acid it keeps the soil.

Description

Dark stone built from thin stacked layers. It holds almost no water and leaves pH alone, so it is purely decorative.

Also called layered stone.

Estimated, where sources were thin: look authored for the app; physical values estimated.

Grow it in a jar