Magic Garden

 One present I knew that Zorg would like was this "Magic Garden."  It's really a capillary action and crystal formation experiment in a very appealing disguise!

Here we see it just as it was set up.  You can see the "magic liquid" (water with mineral salts) traveling up the paper mountain and trees bu capillary action.


Within an hour, you could see the crystals begin to form on the tips of the "branches" and "grass."

An hour later.....  The "cherry blossoms" are developing nicely.

Three hours in, we have "snow" on the mountain!

 Four hours in...

By evening (maybe 7 hours), everything seems fully developed!

But by morning, we have even more crystals!

We're pretty sure this is the max since the crystals and paper show definite signs of drying.

What a great experiment!