It will be a magnificent decoration for any interiorA florarium is a small corner of living nature behind glass. It is a kind of tiny indoor greenhouse, where miniature bromeliads, orchids, selaginellas, dwarf ferns and groundcover ficuses, marantas, fittonias, and peperomias feel at home. Sometimes these are the most beautiful compositions made up of fresh flowers and moss, decorated with shells, bright beautiful stones, twigs, dry plants, etc. Florariums are used to decorate a home or office. Moreover, they fit into any interior. They can be large and small, floor, table, and even wall-mounted. Today, many flower shops offer a wide variety of glass compositions, but if you wish, you can make a florarium yourself. This is an interesting activity not only for an amateur flower grower, but also for anyone who wants to express their creative personality and originally decorate the interior of their own home.
What do you need for a florarium?
Anyone can create such beautyto a person. In order to make a florarium, you will need a transparent vase of any shape and size. It can be a round or square aquarium, a large glass, a bottle, etc. At the next stage, you need to choose one or more small plants and prepare the moss. The last thing you will need to complete the composition is various accessories: shells, multi-colored stones, rhinestones, beads, unusually shaped branches, etc. Here, everything is limited only by your imagination. If desired, you can make a florarium without live plants, which will look no worse in the interior. You can make a miniature "rock garden" or a rural landscape, building a house or a toy mill from matches. So, the materials have been selected. It's time to talk about how to make a florarium with your own hands. A miniature garden behind glass in a completely closed transparent container suggests a special microclimate. And this means that not every plant can become an inhabitant of a florarium. In a closed vessel, its own ecosystem is formed, in which there will be increased humidity, temperature and internal gas exchange. Thanks to this, the plants in the florarium can easily do without watering for quite a long time. The limited volume makes it possible to grow only slow-growing specimens in the florarium. It should be remembered that although such a composition will decorate your interior for a long time, it is still temporary - the plant will have to be transplanted into a pot sooner or later. First, you need to decide where the florarium will stand. And if you are going to put it near the wall, then its elements should be arranged so that there are high ones behind and small ones in front. If it will stand in the center of the table, then the decorative elements should be placed so that a beautiful view opens up from all sides. That is, the largest and highest elements should be placed in the center of the composition.
Plants for florarium
Then choose a plant that will become the basecompositions of your florarium. The most suitable candidates for creating this masterpiece are bromeliads, some flowering species that require high humidity, and tropical exotics. Ferns are great for such compositions. The most commonly used plants for a florarium are miniature violets (Saintpaulia), beautifully flowering orchids, fittonias, marantas, bromeliads, allocasias, azaleas, selaginellas, cyclamens, ivies and ferns, episcias, dieffenbachias, calamus, etc. Cacti do not feel very comfortable in closed containers, but if you really want, you can make a garden out of succulents. Only in this case, you should not plant moisture-loving plants next to them. A florarium based on miniature violets with variegated foliage looks very beautiful. Having decided on the plants that will live in your florarium, select the soil suitable for them. Pour some soil on the bottom of a glass container (the amount depends on the size of the vessel). Cover the soil with moss on top to create a beautiful background. You can also place plants in small pots - plastic cups, which should also be lined with moss. Or try simply wrapping the cup with green moss and placing it in the interior of the florarium. Then, without disturbing the composition, you can replace the plant at any time if it has lost its appearance or has outgrown. In addition, it is easier to care for the plant. But still, keep in mind that a garden with plants of different species planted in the same soil looks much nicer than a collection of pots. But then you need to very carefully select plants suitable for the conditions of maintenance. Because flowers that need a dry period of rest (rare watering or no watering at all) will not be able to exist in the same soil with plants that cannot live without watering. Therefore, when creating a composition of such plants, they need to be divided according to this feature, providing each group with its own "soil space". This is not easy, so start your first florarium with the same type of plants.
We adorn the florarium
Decorating an open florarium in an apartment with your own handswith your hands, prepare shells, twigs, unusual stones, any elements that you can find and that you like for its decoration. They should meet the following conditions: either be a bright accent, or have an unusual shape to complement the overall picture, or echo other elements in color to shade them. Now you can create a composition as your imagination tells you. We offer a little advice on design: it is desirable that the florarium have some kind of semantic accent - an unusual shell, a bright stone, a flowering plant or something like that. This will make your garden more harmonious and complete. If you make your composition using live plants, it is advisable to place the florarium closer to the window or provide it with additional lighting. That is why aquariums of various shapes can be used for the florarium, because they are equipped with a lid with lighting. In such a container, you will be able to create a closed ecosystem, and the plants will feel great there. Florariums can be made in a variety of ways. They can be thematic, for example, in the form of a sea coast or a tropical forest. The main thing is to choose them correctly for your interior. And then this composition will serve as a wonderful decoration of yours, delighting you and your guests. We recommend reading:
