To Make a Micro-Landscape

A terrarium is a miniature space in which we reproduce specific conditions, such as where a forest, a desert or a rainforest are given. They are very colorful and have them at home can be very beneficial to bring a touch "green" different from common plants and can also be learning a lot about the different ecosystems we could create with garden decorations.

To make a terrarium is very simple. Start with a bowl, a vase or a DIY landscape glass bottle, which have at least one wall of glass and a wide mouth to manage it. You need to put gravel or small stones first (2 to 4 cm) and then dried moss layer that will another 3 or 4 cm of soil with compost (or mixed with sand in proportions 1: 3 if the terrarium is a desert). Then spray water and you transplant or planting the chosen plants, sprayed again and add decorative elements you want as pebbles, stones, shells, branches, etc.

When choosing plants, it is important to combine with other tall plants creeping to create different heights, and we can also put plants of different colors and match with the other kinds of leaves, branches, etc. Depending on the size of your terrarium you can build.

For a tropical terrarium you can put ivies, bromeliads, mosses, begonias, orchids, and ferns, etc. To choose dessert plants, you can use a desert cactus, thyme, carnivorous and succulent. For reproducing a forest terrarium can use African violets, vines, ferns, DIY micro landscape moss, and bonsais, etc. In any case, you should be always looking for smaller varieties that can adapt to our terrarium.

It is important that the terrarium is ventilated, so that there is no excess water condensation. When watering a terrarium we will pulverizing from above and must not abuse water, because drainage is poor and could rot. In the case of tropical terrarium it will require more frequent but shorter risks, to keep the moisture it needs.

It is very important to avoid exposing the terrarium in direct sunlight because the glass makes the magnifier effect on plants and could even burn. However, remember that it is important to have indirect light for plants to grow well.