Rust bowls not only look very attractive in a vintage garden. Stone landscapes in rust bowls are particularly popular. Find out below how to create a mini stone landscape step by step and how else you can plant your rust bowl.
How to plant rust bowls?
To plant a rust bowl, you usually need drainage fleece or clay shards, loose garden soil, sand, natural stones, roots, succulents or cacti, mini grasses and pebbles. In just a few steps you can create an attractive mini stone landscape that is suitable for indoor and outdoor use.
The rock garden in the rust bowl
Rust bowls are ideal for stone landscapes. For the mini stone landscape you need:
- Potter shard or drainage fleece
- loose garden soil
- Sand
- Natural stones of different sizes
- Roots or beautiful branches
- Succulents or cacti
- possibly mini grasses
- Pebbles
1. The drainage
If your grate bowl is to be placed outdoors, it needs a water drain in the bottom, or several for larger grate bowls. If this is not the case, you should use a metal drill (€24.00 on Amazon) and drill fingernail-sized holes in it.
Cover the drains with upwardly curved potsherds or drainage fleece to prevent blockages. If your grate bowl is to be kept indoors, the drainage holes can be omitted. But then water carefully.
2. Fill with soil and plant
Now fill the grate bowl with soil up to just below the edge and press small hollows into the places where the succulents want to be placed. Plant your succulents and gently press down the soil around the plants. If you have mini grasses on hand, plant one or two plants in the tray. When buying plants, make sure that you buy grasses with a very low water requirement, otherwise they will die alongside the more drought-loving succulents.
3. Decorate
Now you can get creative: Distribute stones, wood and other decorative elements such as rustic clay figures in the bowl as you wish. But don't fill it up too much!
4. The conclusion
Last but not least, cover the soil with pebbles.
Other Rust Bowl Planting Ideas
If you have a larger rust bowl, you can combine plants of different sizes with stones. A larger ornamental grass in the middle, a few flowering, lower perennials around and small cushion plants at the edge look particularly beautiful. In between you can skillfully place a beautiful stone or a root. Cover the soil decoratively with pebbles, moss or mulch. A combination of pebbles and mulch is also conceivable, which allows a beautiful play of colors of brown and white. Climbing plants also look beautiful in the rust bowl, especially if you let them hang down from a hill.
