As we have seen on previous occasions, we can use anything like flower pot: from a tire, aquariums,… everything. But today we will go further. Today we will give you some tips so you can form your own terrarium in bottles or decorative objects of Cristal.
And, if you can't have a garden or you just want to decorate your home with plants, this is a great way to do it.
First of all, we will have to get small plants, slow growing or that tolerate pruning well. For example: succulents, moss, ferns, flower plants, ...
Once we have decided which ones we want to put in our personalized terrarium, we will have to choose the object that we will use as a pot; that is to say, what will really be the home of our little plants. It can be a bottle, a vase, a crystal ball as seen in the first image ... Anything we can think of.
And finally we will only have one thing left: the substrate. Depending on which plants we have chosen, we will use one substrate or another. For example: if what we want is to put succulents or cacti, we will put a substrate that prevents the roots from being flooded, such as river sand, gravel, clay balls ... whatever we prefer, then we will add some substratum.
If, on the contrary, we want to create a small tropical forest, we will mix the substrate with a little drainage material.
Now there is only one thing left: decorate our terrarium. The first thing to do is add the substrate, then place the seedlings carefully (we can help each other with tweezers if necessary), and finally we will water. It is important not to overdo it with watering. Remember that, being an almost closed container, the humidity is high due to the plant's own respiration and the water that we have added at the time of watering.
Decorating your home with plants is great, don't you think?
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hello I loved what you wrote, I loved it and here in Brazil I did not find it, I also loved being able to read it in another language. I am going to make some terrariums that I have already bought. I hug even more.
Hello, what substrate. Would it be some fertilizer, the bottle may be open or you have to cover it, I would put ferns and small succulents
What flowering plant can I put in? Thank you
Hola!
The bottle must be open, so the air will change and we will avoid the presence of fungi. As a substrate, I recommend that you put a first layer of volcanic clay or some similar material inside, and that you finish filling with a moss -in the case of plants such as ferns, for example-, or with river sand for cacti and succulents. It is preferable not to put succulents and ferns together, as their irrigation needs are different: the former want high humidity, while the latter prefer little water.
If you have any doubts, write us 🙂
Greetings and have a nice weekend!
Thank you Monica 🙂
To you 🙂, happy week!
Interesting your blog, great decoration ideas, do you have any photo credits of the first image or a page that is dedicated to the elaboration of terrariums?
Thank you for your words, Emmanuel.
Regarding your question, I have been searching and in This Video They explain how to make one easily.
A greeting.
Hello, I would love to learn how to make them but I have a lot of doubt about land and water! It is not necessary to make small holes underneath the container so that the water comes out?
The land that each type of silver needs, can they give me in a nursery? Or is the earth different because the container is closed? I can't understand that part
Thank you
Hi valeria.
I answer you in parts:
-No, it is not necessary, but you have to control the irrigation a lot.
-The soil can be given to you in the nursery, but it is important that it be porous.
All the best