I’m building a suspended wildflower ceiling to cap a midnight garden theme over a 20’ dance floor, and I’m torn between coated chicken wire with water tubes and AgraWool blocks laced with 18‑g wire. What hardware and hydration tricks have stayed tidy and secure for you in heat (90°F load‑in under a sailcloth tent) — cheeseboroughs, maillons, zip ties — without crushing stems or breaking the silhouette?
AgraWool over tubes for a “90°F load-in” under sailcloth — less drip, no crushed stems, and it stays workable. I pre‑soak blocks with RVB, hog‑ring into 2×1‑inch mesh, then hang panels on cheeseboroughs with maillons and a secondary safety cable; zip ties only as keepers. Caveat: add a thin bird net underlay to catch shed when it dries.
Backing @nicevan, for a 20’ meadow in 95°F I ran cheeseboroughs to a Unistrut spine with delta maillons, wrapped AgraWool in weed‑barrier, and fed a 1/4” micro‑drip line (0.5 gph emitters) along the top so it stayed wet without turning into a sprinkler. I sleeve 18‑g with 3 mm silicone tubing to prevent bruising; if you go tubes, coffee‑stirrer inserts work but get fiddly in the heat.
For a 20’ meadow in a 90°F sailcloth load‑in, I’ve had the tidiest results clipping coated chicken wire to a slim spine with stainless sailmaker’s snaps instead of zip ties — easy to rehang and no stem pinch. If you’re going AgraWool like @nicevan, hide a 3L hydration bladder per 4’ section above and run 1/8” capillary wicks into the blocks; it stays invisible and drip‑free, just bump your 18‑g lacing to paper‑taped 16‑g where the mass sags.