Friends, in this material we will talk about a garden in a pot. Sometimes it happens that a person would be happy to have indoor flowers, but due to his occupation he often leaves and is afraid that without him they will dry out. There are often very busy people who, when asked why they don’t start growing indoor flowers, answer - who will take care of them?

As if especially for these people, there is a genus of indoor plants that are not very demanding in terms of care, replanting or watering - these are cacti and succulents. It’s this kind of mini garden in a pot that I want to talk about, and it doesn’t matter that it looks quite small - we can talk about it for a long time.

Garden in a pot - composition with cacti

Beautiful compositions of cacti and succulents can form the basis your mini garden in a pot, they will not dry out during your long absence and will delight you when you return alive and healthy.

Garden in a pot that does not require watering

The word "succulent" means "juice" in Latin. They are called so because they accumulate moisture in the form of sap in their leaves and stems, and it is this property that allows them to survive in dry desert conditions.

DIY potted garden made from cacti

Some people think that growing cacti and succulents is boring, and there is even an opinion that they are “ugly plants.” I would like to dispel this opinion by imagining how you can decorate your interior with them.

The sight of a lonely cactus in a nondescript pot can really make anyone sad. But what if you try to create a composition out of them?

A composition of these plants in a wide bowl or any other container, including an aquarium, can become what is called the “highlight” of the interior.

Using decorative pebbles and powder, colored sand, glass decor for an aquarium - all this will decorate your composition of living plants and fill it with color and attractiveness.

Mini garden in a pot - which plants to choose

Mini garden in a bowl will greatly decorate your home floral ensemble. The composition in a bowl has its own canons. To ensure that all plants are harmoniously combined, let's look at the main points.

Potted Garden - Foreground

And first, let's choose a tall plant that sets the tone for the entire composition. It's the easiest one to choose. You can use palm trees, ficus, cordyline, philodendron and monstera.

Medium shot

Now let's select the middle ground plant. Bright, colorful plants are suitable here. They are also called decorative foliage. These include yellow scindapsus, variegated ivy, variegated codiaum, begonia, and coleus.

A miniature garden requires very little space! But it will accommodate an impromptu pond and a mini-landscape with elves.

Now let’s pay a little attention to succulents

Miniature succulent gardens- the most common. This is understandable. After all, they require much less maintenance compared to deciduous mini-gardens in bowls. Succulents are generally not very demanding when it comes to watering; it is recommended to water them no more than twice a month.

Tree-like succulents such as Pachyphytum and Crassula , placed either in the background or in the center of the future composition

In a succulent mini-garden you can also plant rosette, bush-like or ampelous plants with different colors and appearance. Suitable for this haworthia, echeveria, sedum, faucaria . Cacti can also be included in the composition. For lovers of these prickly creatures, you can even create mini cactus gardens in a bowl.

How to properly replant a cactus or succulent?

It is necessary to maintain cleanliness when replanting - wash the pots, drainage and stones should also be washed and scalded with boiling water. It is advisable to calcinate the sand.

Very important to know- when replanting, you should not accidentally fill the root collar of a succulent or cactus with soil, this can slow down its development.

The cactus must be removed from the pot before planting., clean off damaged roots and dry its root system for 3-4 days. Carefully inspect the root system for pests - if there is any suspicion, you should treat the roots with an insecticidal agent.

Preparing substrate for cacti

The composition is as follows: leaf humus is required (about half of the total volume), the same amount of sand and a little expanded clay and charcoal (about 10%). If you decide to buy a substrate in the store, then it is still worth improving it by adding a little coarse sand and charcoal.

What pots are suitable for cacti

The most important rule is what size the roots are, the kind of pot you need. This rule applies to both the diameter of the pot and its depth.

The best material is definitely clay. It partially absorbs moisture and then releases it gradually, which is exactly what is needed for unpretentious succulents.

Plastic pots can also be used for young cacti, but it is still not recommended to use them for a long time.

The shape of the cactus pot is preferably spherical, but classic bucket-type pots are quite acceptable. Be sure to have a hole at the bottom of the pot for drainage. Water should not stagnate below. The soil must be sprinkled onto a layer of expanded clay to ensure that water is separated from the roots. It is better for cacti to drink less than to drink too much.

Sequence of actions when landing

Place drainage at the bottom of the pot- expanded clay, coarse sand, no more than 25% of the volume of the bowl.

When planting in an aquarium or transparent container, you can next make a decorative layer of small pebbles, colored sand, etc.

After this, add dry substrate and plant plants in it (without watering), carefully distributing the root system and not filling the root collar with soil (this is important!).

At the end you can sprinkle decorative powder and decorate the garden with large stones, shells, and miniature figures.

For the first 3-4 days, such a garden should not be watered., after this time you can water from the tray.

Potted garden of cacti and succulents

Garden in a pot - Laws of style

When creating a composition from cacti, you need to observe the laws of harmony, It is better to combine plants of different sizes and textures in one bowl. When adding pebbles, sand, shells to the composition, we must not forget that living plants should become the center of the composition. And the rest should serve as a background for them.

You can add some cute detail to the composition- a ceramic figurine or a netsuke made of wood - it depends only on your individuality and imagination.

A beautiful idea for decorating a room with live plants is to plant a composition of succulents in a small vase. They are unpretentious, undemanding to watering, but love direct sunlight.

DIY potted garden composition ideas

To get inspired, here is a selection of photographs of small compositions and entire “gardens” of cacti.

A somewhat ambiguous composition, the cactus grower turned out to be a joker!

A real work of art - a garden in a ceramic pot.

By the way, you can put bowls in a rack for pots and thus decorate the room with succulents.

Seeing a blooming cactus is very rare. But you and I managed to do it!

A very nice, in my opinion, composition - a garden in a bowl!

Video master class - do-it-yourself garden in a pot

I hope you have enough material and will be happy to start designing your own cactus garden!

Every day, when going outside, people notice many brilliant pictures of nature. A charming landscape of majestic trees in a city park, living pictures of flowers underfoot, a green panorama of a suburban forest. All this was created by the Creator and has served all humanity for centuries.

Many people, imitating the Great Artist, arrange their homes and plots in a unique way. Recently, fresh landscaping ideas have been used for this purpose. Creative summer residents create green decor to cover unattractive walls of utility buildings or fences. Moreover, they decorate living spaces with compositions of green plants.
Unique living paintings are made from indoor plants, which are placed in special frames. They fit effectively into any interior of a house or apartment.

With the help of phyto-paintings, you can exotically decorate your apartment, give it a special coziness and enliven it with greenery.

Original live panorama on the wall

Creative designers, creating living paintings, sought to turn them into an original element of an art object. In this case, instead of paints and canvas, use indoor flowers and soil. As practice has shown, a green mini-landscape, unlike a painted picture, constantly changes its appearance. It increases in size, plays with shades, purifies the air and relieves stress.

To create a living picture on the wall, you need the following materials:

• wooden frame;
• plywood;
• metal grid.

These elements are fastened into a single frame that will support living plants. First, take a thick wooden frame with slats (the bottom one should be at least 4 cm) and select plywood of the same size for it. Prepare a film for insulation and a mesh with small cells. Next, the film is applied to the plywood so that the soil does not damage the wall.

Even cling film is suitable for waterproofing if you wrap it around plywood in several layers.

A mesh is attached between the frame strips with nails or staples. Plywood is nailed to the back of the frame. The main thing is that the insulated part is inside the structure. After this, it is necessary to make at least 2 fastenings to securely install the painting on the wall. Paint and varnish the finished device.

The dried structure is filled with soil through the mesh cells. You can compact it with a pencil or a wooden stick. When the soil reaches the level of the mesh, it should be sprinkled with water and covered with a small layer of dry soil. To prevent it from spilling out of the structure, you can use moss. Next, start planting indoor plants.

At the same time, it is important to know the basic rules of how to make a living picture so that it turns out to be a real work of art. So, indoor flowers should be planted in such an order that the intended pattern is obtained. In order to save time, a drip irrigation system is installed under the frame.

Some designers, instead of a grid, use hanging containers that can be firmly fixed to the wall. A suitable plant for the intended composition is planted in each of them.

Using containers of different shapes and colors, you can freely change the design, periodically updating the design of the room.

It is quite possible to create an exotic picture of fresh flowers without using frames. The landscape is placed on part of the wall, having previously covered it with waterproofing material. It will protect the structure from the destructive effects of moisture coming from fresh flowers.

Suitable flowers for living masterpieces

Green succulent flowers are often used as a suitable material for paintings. They feel great on any soil. They react normally to varying humidity and unexpected drought if watering is not done regularly.

To get a beautiful living picture of plants, make it in a horizontal position. Flowers are planted according to the planned composition, starting with large cuttings.

Since succulents grow very slowly, it is advisable to arrange them quite tightly in the frame.

After planting, the finished painting is left in a warm room away from sunlight for 1 month. During this time, the flowers will take root and begin to grow. Now they can be hung in a permanent place in the house or apartment.

Original living compositions are created from different flowers. Particularly impressive:

In some phyto-paintings, designers add colored pebbles, seashells or pebbles. This gives them a more luxurious look.

Advantages of living paintings in the interior

Unlike ordinary paintings, living compositions fill the room with freshness and originality.
As the greenery grows, the panorama changes, which brings emotional satisfaction to the household.
In addition, you can periodically change the set of plants to create new landscapes.

The living picture presented in the photo fits harmoniously into the simple interior of the apartment.
Here you can clearly see that such a masterpiece always looks voluminous and rich in a living space.
Therefore, you can contemplate it from any angle and see its indescribable beauty.
And finally, a living painting is the fruit of your labor, which you can enjoy for many years to come.

Living painting ideas - video

Succulents are a real boon for compositions and creativity; they can be planted not only in shells, driftwood, coconut shells, cups, cracks on the walls, but also in anything your imagination suggests. Of course, we wouldn’t want to limit it, so here we will present only what will really be useful and will help you create your own unique composition with your own hands. The article is mostly a selection of photos, but there are also several universal master classes that will allow you to quickly master the main rules for designing compositions from succulents.

Let's start with the assortment

Let us describe groups of suitable plants and some specific “heroes”. Of course, the entire set of cultures cannot be covered in one article:

1. Cacti. But not all of them are suitable for compositions.
2. Aloe, various forms.
3. Lithops (they are rarely used in compositions with other plants, because the agricultural technology of these plants is very peculiar). As a rule, different types of lithops are arranged in one pot, without other plants.

The most popular plants in compositions:

1. Sedums.
2. Rejuvenated.
3. Aeoniums.
4. Echeveria.

Sedums are a huge group of plants. In the photo below, on the left, there is a prominent sedum - plants 30-40 cm high, with bright decorative flowers, on the right - blue sedum - its height does not exceed 5-10 cm:

Young - well known under the name “stone rose” also includes a lot of hybrids:

Aeoniums are plants 25-30 cm high. There are many varieties and varieties:

Aeonium Arborium ‘Schwarzkopf’

Aeonium Haworthii Variegta

Echeverias are very popular for creating continuous surfaces, especially flowing effects:

There are many varieties of echeveria. They are actively used for wall planters:

Miniature finestraria with cone-shaped leaves are good for tabletop compositions. Their agricultural technology is similar to that of Lithops: complete absence of watering in winter, careful and meager watering in summer, well-lit place.

Fenestraria Rhopalophylla

Finestraria with lithops.

Ampelous succulents

Rowley's ragwort - original ball leaves. Unpretentious.

Morgan's sedum is a fairly powerful plant with long stems densely covered with leaves. Hanging shoots resemble thick sausages.

Of course, the plant is highly decorative and solo, but it is also actively used in compositions. True, in the photo below there is a Burito sedum very similar to it:

Sedum Burrito:

It’s also worth looking at other members of the family Crassulaceae: cotyledons, pachyphytums, Kalanchoe, sedums, Crassulas, graptopetalums. From other families the following are suitable: euphorbia, peperomia, senecio, some types of agaves, haworthia, gasteria, representatives of families Mesembryanthemums and Lastovnevas. Perhaps some plants from the family will be suitable Euphorbiaceae.

It makes sense to try your hand at arranging individually planted plants first:

Compositions, ideas, techniques

Sequence of composition creation

Regardless of the size and shape of the composition, there are general rules for their creation:

Now you know how to make almost any composition from succulents. Of course, this is a very simplified scheme, because such important things as the thickness of the soil layer, the mixing of the earth mixture, the selection of moss and decor, that is, in fact, everything that creates conditions for plant roots, are selected individually for each composition - one might say , "approximately". However, the aim is formed quite accurately with experience in growing succulents. If you have been seriously studying them for at least a year, feel their needs, know how to grow a healthy plant, where to put it, what to plant it in, how to water it, then there will be no problems with creating your own masterpiece mix.

Container selection

We decided not to waste printed signs, but simply show you as many different containers as possible. It is noteworthy that succulents can get by with a small amount of soil, so even the smallest objects can act as a container.

You can implement any image using:

Shells

Or their imitation from gypsum or cement:

The photo shows a cement sink made specifically for the composition.

Treated wood

It is better, of course, to use wooden containers as flowerpots, and plant the plants in a container that is less exposed to moisture.

Stumps and snags

A charming and very skillfully executed composition with shells.

Toys

Old pots and vases

And the more holey, the better:

Everything you can find in the kitchen

Cups, spoons, scoops for bulk products, baking dishes, beautifully decorated old tin cans, cups, out of order teapots, sardine cans, picnic baskets, candy dishes and dessert dishes:

Vintage of old cans, watering cans, plastic bottles, as in some of the photos above, is a separate process, no less interesting than creating compositions from succulents. It is noteworthy that none of the domestic craftswomen has yet mastered such processing of junk. Many of the arrangements pictured above in recycled vintage containers are commercial arrangements intended for sale. However, they are not much different from amateur ones made by hand, except that on the fly you can hone and simplify the details.

Chairs

There is something nostalgic in such compositions, where succulents tightly cover the chair and it’s not even about the style of the piece of furniture itself. The very fact that the furniture is completely overgrown with plants evokes associations with an abandoned garden and the romance of antiquity.

And even wine corks or eggshells

And in general - any items

Images

This is also purely a matter of imagination, so below are some photos for inspiration.

Landscapes with mountains and rocks

Below we will talk more about landscapes, only more complex. Recreating mountains, cliffs, islands lost in the white foam of sea waves is relatively easy to achieve. Use decorative stone chips, marbles, stones, driftwood, cobblestones, and their plaster imitations.

Stream or waterfall

The technique is quite popular - plants or stones imitate spilling water. This technique is often used in open ground flower beds, using ground cover flowers (, ageratum, soapwort, aubrieta, arabis). Succulents will successfully cope with the same task. Blue-gray echeverias are ideal.

However, nothing prevents the spilled “waves” from being of a different shade:

Succulents can be an excellent addition to a stone stream:

Animals

Ball and other three-dimensional hanging figures

This is a more difficult task. Ready-made succulent balls cost about 50 Euros on Etsy.

A ball is made from wire with a diameter of..., wrapped with the same mesh, but not completely, a little space should be left so that you can work with the inner surface of the ball. to lay out the surface with a very thick layer of moss and coconut fiber, then fill it with soil suitable for succulents, perhaps looser; a small diameter foam ball can be inserted into the center to prevent dampness and not make the composition too heavy. Close the grid. You can start planting plants.

Trees are created using the same principle.

Panels, paintings and other wall compositions

For Valentine's Day:

Inscriptions and signs

The price of such an original pointer is about $30.

Nothing prevents you from posting any inscription using the same principle.

Wreaths on the door

They are not very popular here, although I must admit that a wreath, including one made of succulents, on a door or on a fence, looks attractive.

Panel from Ikea table

A quite popular online master class on making a composition from a table purchased at Ikea. It is worth noting that the idea is indeed successful and looks stylish.

Imitation of landscapes and landscapes

The use of houses, stones imitating rocks, and miniature bridges makes compositions with succulents charming, but you should not take on such a composition without experience - trial options can be so far from the desired image that disappointment cannot be avoided. In addition to a carefully thought-out composition, preferably in advance and on paper, you will need to spend money on high-quality decor, or find natural materials for it, in addition, you should be well acquainted with the selected succulents.

Simpler in terms of planting are houses with overgrown roofs:

Just below, in a picnic basket, is a village landscape made by a Japanese craftswoman for sale. You can see how finely the details are worked out:

Aquariums and gardens in a bank

Succulents and cacti are great for glass arrangements, despite the criticism. Particular attention should be paid to good drainage, because a glass container for succulents will be too humid, and lighting - even ordinary glass absorbs light.

Caring for a garden in a jar means periodic spraying, and, of course, it is worth making sure that the room where it is located has clean, fresh air without dust.

And one more important point - the vessel should not be closed.

Petr Lapshin, curator of the collection of succulents at the Institute of Fracture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, harshly criticizes florariums and notes that succulents are completely unsuitable for growing in glass vessels. Let us not allow ourselves to agree with him on everything. Closed glass containers are really not suitable for succulents. However, now there are many vessels that are no less spectacular than closed ones, allowing you to provide succulents with suitable conditions for them, namely:

1. Mandatory periodic drying of the soil.
2. Good lighting.

In addition, it is worth noting that such compositions are designed to provide pleasure, and it does not have to be long-lasting. This composition is a good way of self-expression, an excellent gift or temporary interior decor. In a few months, plants, even succulents and even in conditions suitable for them, grow and the composition loses its appearance - it has fulfilled its functions, the plants can be planted in other containers, and a new composition can be created in the vessel.

You can use decorative sand

This sand is sold, for example, in the Fix Price network, or in stores for florists.

Options with sand are simple, they do not require a complex arrangement of plants, but in general, compositions “behind glass” are quite complex from a compositional point of view.

How to arrange beautiful succulents, how to combine them? There is a class of people who are able to beautifully compose any form without special training; if you are not one of them, then it makes sense to turn to literature. It is impossible to outline the basics of composition within the framework of this article, so we will simply recommend what to read:

• David Hession: everything about flower arranging - inexpensive and accessible. The book is focused specifically on arranging cut flowers and dried flowers, but the general principles of arranging shapes and lines can be mastered.
• From foreign ones exactly on the topic are books by Deborah Lee Baldwin. All about compositions made from succulents. However, they have not been translated into Russian.

Examples of beautiful compositional solutions

Many of them can be created based on the principles of arranging dried flowers and cut flowers. Consider: shape, color, size. Start creating a composition by varying only one parameter (for example, plants of the same shape and color, but different sizes), and then move on to the rest (plants of different shapes, colors, sizes). The photo shows compositions from simple to complex:

Using marbles.

Living colors

For those who have achieved mastery in both growing succulents and cacti and arranging them, enormous opportunities open up for using these plants as paints. The color and shape of the plant are like brush strokes. Also, some of these compositions resemble knitting using the freeform technique.

Compositions in a minimalist style

Some of the compositions above may well be called “collective farm”, but rusticity, straightforwardness and childish fun, like figurines, are purely a matter of taste. Ultimately, the overall impression is more influenced by the quality of workmanship. The video below is about creating compositions in a natural style - from the Raritetplants channel.

Each owner arranges the site so that its design is unique and different from its neighbors. Therefore, non-standard decoration techniques are used, with the help of which not only the horizontal space, but also the vertical space is landscaped. Creative summer residents cover up ugly walls of outbuildings, old fences with green decor, and even manage to create a barrier from plants for the prying eyes of neighbors. A new direction in landscape design can be called phyto-pictures. Compositions of living plants placed in frames look impressive and unusual. How to create a living picture, what plants to choose for it - we’ll talk about all this in more detail.

The essence of the new direction is to turn living plants into an art object, replacing canvas and paints with soil and flowers. A “living” landscape will always outperform a painted one, because it lives its own life, plays with colors and is constantly changing.

The canvas of the great artist Van Gogh shone with new colors when it was recreated on a huge wall using living plants

The basis for phyto-pictures are frames, metal mesh and plywood, which are fastened into one holding frame. It is filled with soil and planted in the cells of the plant so as to create a certain pattern.

A drip irrigation system is installed under the frame (if there is no time to water).

An ugly wooden fence, which is located “facing” north, can become a real art gallery if it is decorated with phytolandscapes of different sizes

Instead of a mesh, you can use special hanging containers that are fixed to a support. Plants planted in containers create compositions due to their texture, different sizes and colors, and at the same time they can be swapped if the design is not successful.

Material on methods for constructing vertical beds will also be useful:

The height and texture of the picture frame can be completely different. The main thing is that the frame has sufficient thickness to fill it with soil.

Some designers do not make frames in phyto-pictures at all. They create landscapes over the entire area of ​​the house wall, fence, etc.

But in the case of using buildings as the basis for paintings, the walls will certainly be waterproofed so that “wet neighbors” do not destroy the structure of the material from which the wall is made.

Still lifes from succulents

Most often, succulent plants act as components of a living design. They grow well on any type of soil, are not afraid of changes in humidity and can easily withstand periods of drought (if the owner forgets to water the composition on time).

To create a painting you will need:

• A ready-made or hand-made thick frame (the bottom bar is 4 cm thick).
• A sheet of plywood equal in size to the frame.
• Waterproofing material for plywood (film).
• Fine mesh metal mesh of the same size.
• Soil (forest clay soil mixed half with sand or fine expanded clay).
• Sphagnum moss (optional).
• Nails, hammer, construction stapler.
• Paint or varnish on wood.
• Succulent plants.

Create a picture like this:

1. Cover the plywood with film so that the soil that comes into contact with it does not destroy the material. The film can even be food grade, wrapped in several layers around plywood.
2. A mesh is installed between the frame slats and secured with nails or staples.
3. On the back side of the frame, plywood is nailed with the insulated side inward.
4. Nail fasteners to the plywood on which the picture will be held (at least 2).
5. The frame is painted or varnished.
6. While the frame is drying, prepare the plants: cut cuttings with a long tail to make it easier to insert into the mesh cells.
7. The plants are laid out in the desired pattern right on the table to determine the composition of the picture.
8. The frame is laid horizontally on the table and filled with soil through the mesh cells. Don't forget to compact it using a pencil.
9. When the soil fills the frame flush with the mesh, spray the soil with water from a spray bottle.
10. Lightly sprinkle the wet soil with dry soil or cover it with a layer of moss, which will prevent soil from spilling through the mesh, and begin planting.
11. Large cuttings are planted first.
12. Try to fill the frame as tightly as the mesh size allows, because succulents grow slowly.
13. Leave the finished composition to take root for a month in a warm place where there is no direct sunlight.
14. Check the soil moisture with a toothpick. Water only when there is no trace of soil left on the toothpick.

As soon as the plants begin to grow (and this can be seen from the young growths), feel free to hang your creation in a permanent place. The main thing is to avoid sunny places, otherwise the succulents will burn. For the winter, the paintings are put away in a heated room.

Cuttings of succulents must be prepared 1-2 days before planting in the picture, so that the cut site has time to dry out and does not rot.

Wooden frames do not like being close to wet soil, so their internal parts should be coated with varnish or antiseptic impregnation in advance

Sand or expanded clay added to the soil acts as a moisture accumulator, so even with infrequent watering, succulents continue to grow normally

Landscapes on walls and fences

If you want to create a living picture on the entire wall or completely hide an old fence under it, use a container decoration option (phytomodules). They are incredibly popular in Europe.

Phytowalls differ from vertical gardens in that designers carefully work out the pattern of plant placement in order to create some kind of visual image

The basis of phytowalls are also metal frames. They are attached to the base on which floral masterpieces will be created. In the southern climate, such walls are made from perennials that will not freeze over the winter, since severe frosts do not occur.

In the middle zone or northern regions, it is most convenient to create phytowalls from. They provide no less bright colors and colors, but you don’t have to worry about wintering.

The metal frame is the main component of the phytowalls, since it is on it that the entire weight of the green painting is supported, gaining weight day by day

Landscaping rules

Let's look at the main points:

• The base is completely waterproofed.
• There should be 2-3 cm of space between the frame and the base for ventilation.
• The frame is attached to the wall using thick wooden blocks, laying them between the metal and the building.
• A pipe for drip irrigation is laid on the top of the frame. Water will have to be pumped into it.
• The container for plants can be jute fabric or a material like felt, which is not afraid of rotting and accumulates moisture well.
• Pockets made of the same material are sewn onto the jute canvas, in which the plants will live.
• You can not sew pockets, but quilt two large felt sheets with squares, and when planting, make cuts in the center of the squares and plant the plants there.
• Before planting on the wall, each plant is wrapped in felt or jute to keep the soil firm.

Professional gardeners for phytowalls use a drip irrigation system, laying a tube to each plant. But such complexity is needed for home phytowalls.

And outside, it is enough to organize drip irrigation from above, since the water will spread over the entire surface of the fabric and nourish each flower. Even if there is excess water, it will drain from below and will not damage the landscape.

An example of a drip irrigation system design can be found in the material:

Jute material has high strength and hygroscopicity, so all the moisture flowing from above will evenly disperse through the pores of the fabric and seep into the roots

Quilted two-layer felt also retains moisture well, so even adult plants with a small clod of soil or grown on hydrogel can be planted in it

In addition to pocket structures made of fabric, container-type plastic phytomodules can be purchased in specialized stores. For more information about these systems, watch the video.

Phytoideas by Patrick Blanc

The most famous phyto-artist was the Frenchman Patrick Blanc. He abandoned the container method of decorating the walls and came up with a hydroponic growing system. All the plants with which he decorates the walls live in felt slabs.

When creating carpets, they are limited to 4-5 types of crops. A larger amount breaks the picture and blurs the overall picture. To draw contours, you can use gravel, sand, decorative pebbles, painted sawdust, bark, etc.

Carpet floral arrangements have a truly royal look, which is why they decorate the main entrances and central flower beds in the garden in this way.

How to create a carpet:

1. Create a flowerbed without using fertilizers or humus. Poor soil will inhibit vigorous plant growth and keep the carpet at a uniform height.
2. Draw the lines of the drawing with a sharp stick, and then fill them with fine sand from a bottle.
3. Restrictors (border tape, cut plastic bottles, etc.) are inserted along the lines of the pattern so that the plants do not climb into someone else’s territory. They are dug deep, leaving 2-3 cm above the ground.
4. Next, separate layers of decorative material are poured (if one is used).
5. The last stage is planting. They begin to plant from the center to the edges, placing the seedlings as densely as possible. It is the dense plantings that create the carpet structure of the flower bed.

In order for the flowerbed to retain its design, you need to periodically pinch the tops of the plants, cut off overly elongated specimens and do not forget about watering.

As you can see, becoming an artist is not difficult. A little imagination - and your site will become a real art gallery.