Miracle on the windowsill - a tiny garden with your own hands

In a small dwelling, flower growers constantly feel a lack of space for green pets, and so they want to give shelter to every cute layering. Creating a miniature garden will save space on the windowsill. The resulting composition will fit into any interior, will require minimal maintenance, and will allow you to realize your creative potential.

Just a few simple steps and helpful tips given in the article will help you create a unique art object.

We think over the details of the indoor garden design

In order not to be disappointed in your creation, carefully consider the details of a tiny garden. You can embody any idea, but its implementation will require a competent approach.

The following ideas for indoor gardens will help you decide on the style of the product:

• paradise;
• fantastic forest;
• alpine slide miniature;
• Provence style with elegant miniature furniture;
• a copy of one of the wonders of the world;
• a garden that repeats the landscape of your favorite movie, for example, the Martian desert;
• the use of bonsai techniques;
• tiered garden in a broken clay pot;
• small copy of your own garden area.

There are a lot of ideas for a tiny garden, every florist can choose something suitable for himself. An excellent solution would be a mini-garden in the same style with the decoration of the home.

The next step towards realizing the idea is sketching. Think over every little thing, draw a plan for the placement of plants, decor elements. Decorations can be bought or made by hand.

If you have a house as planned, you can create it from salt dough, plastic. You can embody a small reservoir using a shallow plastic container of a suitable shape. Real water will quickly "bloom", so it is impractical to use it. Paint the inside of the container with blue acrylic paint, fill it with Titanium transparent glue. Such decor will last a long time, it can be washed, wiped with a damp cloth.

Advice

Miniature furniture, a mill, a well, a garden bridge can be easily glued using toothpicks and wooden skewers. Varnish the items for durability.

Choosing plants for the garden

Since the idea of ​​a miniature garden is based on placing several plants in a large pot, it is necessary to select the flora, taking into account compatibility. It is better to choose unpretentious plants with the same requirements for lighting, watering, and the regularity of feeding. Cacti and succulents get along well.

We advise you to pay attention to the following plants:

• aeonium;
• aloe variegated;
• fat woman;
• diamond dealer;
• echeveria;
• Haworthia;
• rejuvenated;
• pachyphytum;
• sedum;
• faucaria.

To decorate the background of an ornamental garden, choose tall plants - coleus, begonia, arrowroot, guzmania, croton, sansevier. Dwarf trees are ideal for a bonsai-style garden, creating a semblance of a miniature park, forest. Boxwood, thuja, myrtle, ficus are suitable. Fittonia, gusmania will add bright notes, gloxinia, saintpaulia, caladium. To cover the voids and the edge of the container, use ground cover, ampelous plants - saxifrage, groundwort, wax ivy. Moss will do a good job of this. The listed plants are unpretentious, well compatible with each other, not prone to rapid growth.

Perennials are suitable for decorating a home garden. A round dance of white clouds of alyssum, blue lobelia, fragrant thyme will help cover the edge of the pot.

Advice

So that different representatives of the flora do not compete for space and food, plant them in individual pots. Be sure to find the right substrate for each variety.

Selecting a container for composition

Selecting a container for "building" a garden is not an easy task. The container should fit all plants and decorative elements. Rely on the sketch and existing content. To make the plants feel comfortable, select a container with a height of at least 15–20 cm. This rule does not apply to succulents, in which the root system does not require much space.

A plastic box for seedlings, a basin, a large saucepan, a large clay pot, and a tall plastic tray are equally well suited as a container for a garden. The shape of the container should match the selected mini-garden style.

Important!

Make drain holes in the bottom of the container to drain excess liquid after watering.

In order for the selected container to organically fit into the design of the housing, work on the "face". Using liquid nails or hot glue, cover the surface with decorative elements - pieces of tiles, shells, beads, pebbles, mosaics.

From words to deeds - we design a room garden

When all parts of the composition have been selected and decorated in accordance with the idea, it's time to start assembling and decorating the miniature garden. To do this, you will need:

• prepared container;
• universal soil mixture;
• sand;
• drainage - expanded clay, pebbles;
• decorative or natural mulch - pebbles, aquarium soil, shards, nutshells;
• plants in individual pots;
• matched decor.

Fill the bottom of the container with a layer of drainage, put sand on top. Try on selected pots with plants, if necessary, make supports so that all pots are on the same level. Fill the space between the pots with a damp substrate, hiding the edges of the pots under a layer of soil. It remains only to arrange the decor according to the sketch, add a layer of mulch.

Advice

Mulching will give the composition a complete look, facilitate maintenance. Mulch will retain moisture, protect roots from overheating, and prevent weed growth.

Caring for a miniature masterpiece

Caring for a garden on a windowsill consists of the following points:

• regular watering and spraying;
• periodic loosening of the soil;
• formative pruning, pinching, transplanting overgrown specimens;
• removal of wilted inflorescences;
• prevention of the appearance of diseases and pests;
• top dressing.

The decorative garden must be protected from the effects of the scorching sun, placed in a place where pets and babies cannot reach it. Contemplation of the microcosm will bring aesthetic pleasure and help to relax. The miniature garden options are limited only by your skill and imagination.