Would you like to decorate your home with plants but you don't have a plot of land to design your garden? Do you want to green your home in a very original and elegant way? If you have answered yes to one or both questions, the terrarium is your solution. Well, more than the terrarium itself, the plants that you can put in it.
In the market you will find many shapes and sizes, although it really will not be necessary to have to shell out a huge amount of money 😉.
What do I need to decorate with a terrarium?
To have your miniature garden you need the following:
- Un glass container, that is open somewhere so that the air can be renewed and the plants breathe without problems.
- Substratum, either of the sandy type (akadama, pomx, river sand) if you are going to put cacti and other succulents; blond peat or moss if you want to put carnivores; black peat mixed with 50% perlite if you prefer to put other types of plants (flowers, ferns, etc.).
- Plants whose adult size is not larger than the terrarium itself, otherwise sooner or later you would have to transplant them. The most recommended are small succulents (Rebutia, Echinofossulocactus, Mammillaria, Lithops, Sempervivum, gibbaeum), mosses, carnivorous (Pinguicula, Drosera, Drosophyllum, Dionaea), flowers.
- Accessories, such as small stones, a bench or miniature dwarfs to finish completing the terrarium.
- OPTIONAL: decorative garden sand. If you want to decorate it with succulents, putting a very thin layer of white sand on top of the substrate can be very good, as the white increases the beauty of the plants.
How is it done?
Once you have everything, it will be time to move on to step by step. The first thing you have to do is fill the terrarium with a little substrate. The layer must be thick enough so that when the plants are placed, they do not touch the top.
Then I advise you to water with water without lime. If you do not have it, you can water with distilled or rain water, or fill a bucket with water and let it rest for 12 hours. After that time, heavy residues, such as lime, will be at the bottom of the container.
Now play greening the terrarium, planting the plants in it. It is important that you place the highest ones at the back, as this way the lowest ones can have the light they need. To give them more life, you can put a layer of decorative sand or accessories.
More ideas
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