A mini garden in a pot or in another container will be an outlet for those who miss their summer cottage. Such compositions are made from scrap materials and materials, so you don't have to spend money. How often in winter we lack lush green vegetation to please the eye. Sometimes during the off-season we miss our summer cottages, which appear in the whole crucian carp in the summer. Inquiring minds have found a way out of the situation, which is a mini-garden.
Mini garden - what you need to equip it
It will become a real outlet for people who like to create compositions from plants, to admire such creations. To make a mini garden, you do not need to spend a lot, because everything you need is often at hand.
Do you have small cacti or some succulents gave babies, but it's a pity to throw these shoots away? Then such plants will become a decoration of the composition. Often, various houses are the central part of the garden on the windowsill; they can be made from scrap materials. If there is bark or a plastic bottle, these materials will serve as the basis for the structures.
The doll's table, chair will also perfectly fit into the picturesque picture. Make a small pond from the bottom of a plastic bottle or a small bowl. You can buy a miniature openwork arch or make it out of flexible wire. Then the product is covered with paint, and when it dries, it is installed in a mini garden.
You can line the path with stones, if there are no decorative ones at home, then go out for a walk, and you will certainly find the items you need.
Place all these scrap materials in a bowl, in a bowl or in a broken pot. You will have a wonderful job.
Check out some ideas for such a miniature garden. It could be a garden:
- mirrors;
- tropical island;
- alpine slide;
- a mini zoo with animal figurines;
- Christmas;
- recreating a scene from a fairy tale or from another magical story;
- strawberry;
- medieval;
- peasant;
- Chinese;
- bonsai;
- Amazonian jungle;
- cascade multilevel;
- reflecting a real place, for example, your summer cottage, a domestic or foreign park, the Eiffel Tower;
- cats;
- using figures from Kinder surprises;
- using candy wrappers;
- Japanese stones;
- deserts;
- in the style of Provence.
You can recreate other directions to which you have a soul.
Check out plants for a mini garden. You will see that you have some of them at home or in the country. The main thing is to take copies that differ in their small size.
- If you have a money tree at home, the plant has sprouted, use it for your composition.
- If you decide to make an alpine slide, more precisely, a smaller copy of it or recreate the Mexican desert, rocky garden, Caucasian meadow, then stock up on stones, succulents and cacti.
- Sedum is perfect for a blooming garden; the landscape will be decorated with pink flowers of this plant. A rocky rose is also a good option. Use saxifrage. These unpretentious plants require a minimum of maintenance.
- Haworthia has a striped pattern, great for mini desert compositions. An alpine meadow will become more picturesque if you place a diamond pit on it.
- If you have small containers, then place the rejuvenated and Gasteria here. These two plants are well adjacent to each other.
- If you want the entire container to be filled with green leaves, then plant gelxin. The composition will look exotic if you place pachyphytum here. This plant is very successful in the Mediterranean composition.
- Fittonia comes in several colors. Its leaves can be pink, green with white, green with light and red shades. Choose those colors that will be most appropriate for your miniature composition. Of course, do not forget about stonecrops, they will revive your creation.
- Plant a chamedorea, a Kadje saw in a mini-garden, which will add elegance to the volumetric picture. Miniature ivy varieties are now commercially available, use them as well.
- You can plant streptocactuses, miniature roses in a miniature garden. But these plants need sufficient care.
- If you are creating a Japanese garden, then use bonsai dwarf trees. It is also a good landscaping option.
- Small conifers will also be a wonderful garden decoration. But you need to keep in mind that they do not really like the dry air that the winter battery creates. Therefore, you need to keep such compositions either on a warmed loggia, or in a winter garden, or it is necessary to periodically humidify the air and properly care for the conifers.
Do not forget to remove wilted buds after the plants have faded. Also, remove drying leaves in time. Larger forms need to be pruned periodically to keep the plant at the correct size. So, here are the types of plants you can plant in a mini garden:
- Money Tree;
- miniature roses;
- saintpaulia;
- streptocactus;
- cacti;
- ivy;
- hamedorea;
- piley Kadier;
- stonecrop;
- fittonia;
- miniature conifers, including dwarf juniper, dwarf cypress, and dwarf spruce;
- gelksin;
- pachyphytum;
- rejuvenated;
- gastria;
- saxifrage.
As you can see, the plants for the mini-garden are diverse and many gardeners will find suitable specimens on the windowsill. It will only be necessary to take shoots from them and plant them in a newly created composition.
The next master class will tell you in detail how to make such miniature gardens. Many items for them are easy to make with your own hands, find the rest on the street or in the house, so that you do not have to spend too much, and the result will be excellent!
How to make a mini garden with your own hands?
For this, you can use various containers. If you have a rounded glass, get one. Plants will be comfortable here, as the conditions are similar to tropical ones. You can use succulents that rarely need watering. They are drought tolerant.
Here's what you need for such a composition:
- round transparent container;
- small pebbles;
- colored sand or low-pile carpet;
- shells in the form of a starfish;
- wire or toy furniture;
- the soil.
Use light earth. To keep it in one place, it is better to limit it by pouring it into the cut part of a plastic bottle or making a side. Plant selected succulents or other miniature plants in the ground. On the other side of the clear aquarium, place sand or carpet, cutting it out with scissors to shape.
Mark the boundaries between soil and sand or cover with stones. Place the seashells. If you have ready-made furniture for dolls, put a table and a couple of chairs in the mini-garden. If it is not available, then weave it out of wire.
You can make decorative chairs by taking:
- binding cardboard;
- scissors;
- jute twine;
- floristic wire;
- nippers;
- awl;
- glue "Moment" and superglue.
Cut a rectangle of the desired size out of cardboard, which will become the base of the seat. Make holes with an awl at the same distance on three sides, insert the wire here. Make it longer in the corners so that the lower segments turn into the legs of the chair. Also, they should be large in the back so that the back is raised.
Now you need to braid the back and armrests with a cord. When you have created the armrests of the desired height, weave only one backrest.
When it is done, proceed to the design of the legs. Lubricate them with glue, wrap each with a rope, the turns should fit snugly against each other.
From the same twine it is necessary to weave a pigtail, close the edges of the product with such a decorative element so that they look neat. Secure these parts with clothespins, Leave the product to dry completely.
Knit or crochet a rectangle of twine to glue it onto the seat of the chair. This is how beautiful it will turn out.
In the same way, make a table or weave it from floristic wire, making various decorative turns from it. These flexible rods are a very fertile material. You can weave decorative furniture not from floral, but from copper wire. Create a frame for the awning out of it.
Use it when creating the next mini-garden, taking:
- unpretentious miniature plants;
- wire basket;
- small tiles;
- light soil;
- decorative artificial flowers;
- Dollhouse.
- Place low vegetation at the bottom of the container. Lay a small garden path tile. Slightly taller plants will be planted on the right and left.
- Put the house in the background, decorate it with miniature pots with artificial flowers. These plants are easy to make yourself. To do this, take the braid, wind several turns around your finger, then fasten it in the center.
- Protect the taller plants from the lower ones on one side by laying beautiful stones here.
The following work shows that a mini-garden can be made in almost any container. If you have an unnecessary metal tank, use it. Quite a lot of soil will go in here, so the plants will feel comfortable.
Do not forget to provide drainage for any such exposure, it will not allow the roots to rot, accumulate excess moisture.
If you are a city dweller, dreaming of having a house in the village, starting a farm, but so far you can't do it, embody your ideas in a miniature form. Then you will be able to make adjustments, and when there is such an opportunity to purchase a piece of land and arrange everything on it as you intended, you will do it.
For such a sample you will need:
- priming;
- straw;
- scissors;
- small plants;
- small branches of trees;
- artificial pumpkins and peas;
- toy roosters and hens;
- bird house in miniature.
Step by step creation:
- If you have children who have a miniature chicken coop, you can use it. If they have grown up, and such toys are already unnecessary, the ideas presented will give them a second life.
- If you do not have such a design, you can do it yourself. To do this, you need to cut out the parts of the chicken coop from plywood, knock them together with small carnations, and then paint the structure.
- The area for walking chickens is also easy to make. Knock down small bars together, pull a plastic mesh over them, and if there is none, then ordinary gauze or bandage will do. Attach any of these malleable materials to a wood base, and place the structure in the center of your composition.
- Green plants are located along the edge, and in the center you need to pour a little soil and put straw or dried grass stalks cut with scissors on it. Several pumpkins and pea pods stacked here will confirm that you wanted to recreate the composition of the late summer-early autumn.
- This garden area will be fenced off from the ornamental garden by a wooden fence. It is very easy to do. Cut with scissors or saw off parts of the twigs with a small hacksaw, knock them down with small carnations perpendicularly.
Various decorative arches look very beautiful. They can be bought, such decoration elements are inexpensive. If you have wire, then you can weave an arch with your own hands.
Decorative stones delimit two zones well, from which they create beautiful garden paths, grottoes and other small architectural forms.
If there are animal figurines in the house, make a mini-zoo to please your kids. Small plants will allow you to create a corner of pristine nature.
Saw the wooden blocks, put them in the form of steps to the house. The structure is also made of wood.
You can create a garden on a window in a minimalist style
To make such a composition, take:
- suitable capacity;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- glue;
- priming;
- sand;
- plants;
- branches;
- paint;
- brushes;
- pebbles;
- a small saw.
Instructions for creating:
- Pour into a container in the ground. Plant flowers around the edge of the pot. Saw off several pieces from the twig, glue them together to make a bench and a stool. Pour sand on the surface, arrange stones beautifully.
- Details for the bucket and watering can are cut out of cardboard and glued together. Then the finished products can be dyed.
A variety of containers can be used for a mini garden. Even a garden cart will do. Many plants will fit here, and in the center of the composition there is a beautiful house and a fence.
Mini potted garden
Often such containers break, but you don't need to throw them away, because you can make an interesting composition. Arrange the shards as shown in the photo. Add soil and plant the plants. Decorate your creation with toys and miniature houses.
You can plant a small bonsai tree here, arrange a rock garden, then you will have a corner of Japan in your pot.
The pond also looks beautiful. If it is even, then put a round deep saucer or other small bowl in the pot, pour water. You can also use the bottom of a plastic bottle. If you want a curved pond, take a different base or make one out of polymer clay and then pour water inside.
To make your mini pond or pool look beautiful, paint the bottom and sides with blue paint. If you have some cement and sand, mix them in a ratio of 1: 4, add water, pour into rectangular molds. You will have stairs. Place them in a pot, let them lead to the medieval castle. It can also be made from cement.
Even a broken flowerpot can be transformed. And nothing that the container turned out to be small. If all the roots do not fit in it, lower them, let them hang down and give the composition an extraordinary look.
And here is an example of how you can make a mini potted garden using sand, cement and fine gravel. These materials are mixed, added to water, poured into rectangular molds. When the parts dry up, they are connected together, glued together with the same cement mortar. If you still have it, then create an unusual flower or a fabulous tree.
A mini potted garden can contain not one, but several buildings. See how easy it is to stack the broken shards for an antique look.
If you don't have the right material for your house, you can even make one out of bark. Fix its sides, lay the tiles in the form of a doorway, gluing to the bark. Make a wooden door.
If you have a small figurine, it is also great for creating an aged composition. This requires a minimum of soil, the surface is decorated with stones and a few succulents.
The broken wall of the pot can be laid in the same way as in the photo, and steps can be made from small fragments. This will make a wonderful composition.
Here's how to make a mini garden in a pot and other containers. If you are interested in this idea, we suggest looking at the material on this topic so that you would like to engage in an interesting creative process.
And the following video will introduce you to examples of such creations.
