Miniature garden in a broken pot
What to do with a broken pot?Don't rush to throw it away, we offer an interesting idea on how to give a second life to ceramic products and create a miniature garden in a broken pot! Mini gardening does not lose its relevance and is quite popular among both summer residents and city dwellers. Small gardens for fairies and gnomes look beautiful in the garden, on a flowerbed in the yard, on a balcony or on a windowsill of an apartment, and they delight not only children, but also adults.
A broken flower pot gives an opportunitycreate multi-level plant compositions using toy furniture, houses, fences, garden inhabitants and other decorative elements. From several pots you can create an entire magical kingdom inhabited by fairy-tale creatures! Moreover, it is recommended to involve children in the creation of a mini landscape garden.
How to make a miniature garden in a broken pot
To create a mini garden, you will need:
- one or more broken ceramic pots;
- priming;
- stones for decoration and drainage;
- plants (moss, succulents, cacti and others);
- different objects for decoration.
Prepare the pot.You can take a whole ceramic pot and, if you don’t mind, use a hammer to knock off part of the wall. You can also use the same hammer to break a shard into small pieces for decorative design (for example, to create a staircase). Pour small stones on the bottom of the pot for drainage, and then soil. Place the ceramic shards in the ground in tiers, forming the relief of the future fairytale garden. Then we plant the plants, install houses and other decorative elements.
Plants for a miniature garden in a broken pot
Miniature gardens in pots are usually madethematic, for example, a rocky desert, an alpine slide, a tropical forest. Depending on the chosen theme, you can use different plants for compositions - cacti and succulents, deciduous and flowering species, herbs and moss. It is advisable to choose plants with a very slow growth rate to preserve the appearance of the landscape. In addition, choose plants that are unpretentious in care. A garden of succulent species can live in a broken ceramic pot for up to 8 years, and, apart from fairly rare watering, they do not need special care. There should not be too many plants in the garden, the main thing in the composition is the landscape and details. An excellent choice would be pachyphytum, haworthia, nertera, sedum, euphorbia, crassula, helxina, gasteria, sedum, spurge, saxifrage, dwarf cypresses, spruce, juniper, sphagnum moss and much more. Think in advance about where the garden will be located, from which side the light will fall, and from which side the view of the composition will open. For a shady flowerbed in the garden, choose deciduous species, and for a dry and sunny balcony, desert plants.
