If you enjoy unusual decorations, you should try creating a mini garden in a flower pot. Pretty miniature gardens with small houses, garden furniture, etc. are always a special eye-catcher on the terrace, balcony or in the living room.
How do I create a mini garden in a flower pot?
To create a mini garden in a flower pot, first choose a suitable container such as flower pots, plant bowls or baskets. Plan your garden, choose slow-growing plants such as succulents or mini potted plants and decorative elements such as small houses or figurines. Plant the container with a drainage layer and potting soil, insert the plants and create your individual mini garden.
The right container for a mini garden
There are a variety of options here, for example
- small or large flower pots
- Plant bowls
- decorative baskets
- old wooden boxes
- Zinc containers (disused buckets or a tub)
Planning a mini garden
First of all, you should think about what kind of mini garden you want to create. Should it be a fairy garden with an imaginatively designed pond, perhaps a tree house and exotic plants? Or would you rather create a small oasis of peace with small beds, a bench and a garden house?There are no limits to your imagination. The only important thing is that you make a plan to get the materials you need for implementation.
Which plants and decorations are suitable for a mini garden?
In any case, you should choose small, slow-growing plants so that the area does not become overgrown. Succulents and cacti are suitable, among others. But there are also extra small potted plants in garden stores that are suitable for a mini garden, for example small violets, mini rose bushes or very small orchids, which can be integrated extremely well in a fairy garden.
Depending on what your garden looks like If you want to, buy a small house, matching garden furniture and figures in the toy store. You could use a flat pebble as a terrace, a gravel path is created from coarse sand. Even a pond can be built. Simply dig in a small plastic coaster, cover the edges and fill it with water.
How do I start gardening?
In principle, you proceed in exactly the same way as when planting a normal flower pot. Make sure that the chosen planter cannot become waterlogged. Drainage holes are important, to be on the safe side, start with a drainage layer.
To do this, add a not too thin layer of coarse gravel, broken clay or expanded clay to the container and cover this area with a layer of fleece. Now fill the potting soil just below the edge of the container. If you want a hilly landscape, you can now shape your hills or mountains. Then insert your plants. You can then continue with your individual garden design.
