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    50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens: Decorating Your Home with Indoor Plants
    50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens: Decorating Your Home with Indoor Plants
    50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens: Decorating Your Home with Indoor Plants
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    50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens: Decorating Your Home with Indoor Plants

    By Catherine Delvaux

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    Containing 50 projects for creating and maintaining a wide variety of charming and low-maintenance mini indoor gardens, this book is the inspiration you need to make your small living space greener. Whether you prefer succulents, cacti, greenery, flowering plants, vegetables, or orchids, the chosen plants within these pages are all easy to find

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFox Chapel Publishing
    Release dateNov 1, 2020
    ISBN9781607657262
    50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens: Decorating Your Home with Indoor Plants
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    Catherine Delvaux

    Catherine Delvaux is an agronomist and editor in chief of the French gardening magazine, Detente Jardin. She is the author of several gardening books including, The 50 Golden Rules of Permaculture, and How to Grow From Seeds and Seedlings.

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      50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens - Catherine Delvaux

      THE ESSENTIALS

      The arrangements that are presented to you in this book are only guidelines; you don’t need to follow the instructions to the letter. If you can’t find the exact species or variety, it doesn’t matter. Just stick to the major plant categories: replace one cactus with another, one air plant with another (if necessary, ask a salesperson for advice). Most similar plants’ needs are exactly the same, and they will grow in the same way.

      THE KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL ARRANGEMENTS

      THE ARRANGEMENTS PRESENTED HERE VARY SIGNIFICANTLY. SOME NEED TO BE SET UP OUTSIDE, IN THE GARDEN, ON A BALCONY OR TERRACE, OR EVEN ON YOUR WINDOWSILL. OTHERS SHOULD ONLY BE SET UP INSIDE. STILL OTHERS SHOULD BE KEPT INSIDE DURING WINTER AND MOVED OUTSIDE IN SUMMER.

      Outdoor planters

      Winter or early spring plants (pansies, bulbs, primroses, etc.) are available very early in garden centers. They have been grown in greenhouses: if you plant them outside without any transition period and it's cold, they will not survive. But they should not be kept inside where it is too warm and dry. The best thing to do is to place them against the house, where they will be sheltered and kept warmer. If at night the temperature drops below freezing, you should bring them inside in the basement or garage and put them back out the next day. It's a little bit frustrating at the beginning, but it's the only way to keep them alive and see them bloom over time.

      For summer plants (pelargoniums, petunias, verbenias, lobelias, etc.), wait until after the temperatures consistently stay above freezing before placing them outside. This is usally by mid-May, but you should know the climate where you live to make sure there is no longer any risk of freezing, even at night.

      Follow this useful advice:

      • Do not plant seasonal plants too far apart, as they bloom quickly and do not last long.

      • Pay attention to the weight of your larger planters. Make lighter soil blends by replacing one third of the soil with vermiculite. This way you can reduce the total weight by about one third.

      Potted plants on windowsills

      Use common sense when deciding placement.

      • Make sure that the base of the pot is not wider than the windowsill.

      • Make sure the pots can’t tip over.

      • Check that the pots do not prevent the shutters from closing.

      • Make sure that you can easily reach the pots to water and take care of them.

      • Avoid planters less than 6" (15cm) in diameter, as you will have to water them more often due to a lack of soil.

      • Avoid plants that grow too tall or too wide. They will quickly stifle the other plants and block the light inside the house.

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      Indoor arrangements

      The rules are more or less the same as for outdoor pots, with some additional constraints.

      • Place large plates underneath the pots so as not to wet the floor or furniture.

      • Do not place pots in heavily trafficked walkways, as the foliage will get damaged.

      Hanging plants

      Pay close attention to the following points.

      • Make sure that the wires are strong enough to support the weight. Keep in mind that wet soil weighs up to a third more than dry soil.

      • Don’t place hanging plants in drafty or windy areas.

      • Make sure that you can easily reach the arrangements to water them.

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      Terrariums

      Terrariums were originally popularized by the Victorians. After going out of fashion for many years, people regained interest in them in the 1980s, with the famous dame-jeanne, bulky glass cylinders. Then they fell out of style again before experiencing a resurgence in the form of containers with interesting shapes (like tube vases), repurposed jars, decorative glass bells, and minimalist miniterrariums with just one or two plants. If a terrarium is equipped with a cap or lid, it creates a closed system that can be self-sufficient for many weeks. If it is left open, it creates a

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