#diy plant

[figdays]

Grow Your Own Palm Tree // Firebox 

[alina-goingintrends]

Creative & Unique DIY Pots For Plant Ideas

Read, See, Learn & Create Beautiful DIY Flower Pots For Your Home & Garden By Using The Already Present & Scrapped Items From Your Home

[lanicas]

I just wanted to post these pics and this tutorial for diy planters for my own reference http://www.we-are-scout.com/2016/04/tutorial-give-old-plant-pots-painted-designer-makeover.html

[indoorplantstore-blog]

Taylor Greenhouses Plant Haul & Review! | Amazing Houseplants Haul! Today I received a plant order from Taylorgreenouses.com & figured I would do a haul/review of the order!

[figdays]

“English Village Shop” Mini Growing Kit // AnotherStudio

[epiphanywoodworks]

I just finished this little table, made with pallet wood. I used a tree branch as the drawer pull, which really made it pop. Check out my video and tell me what you think. I put some additional instructions on my website, check it out too.

[thedottyones]

We have always liked terrariums even though we are not very good at growing plants. At least I can claim I used to be gardening class back in primary school. My wife on the other hand… can’t even grow bean sprouts.

Anyway Make Your Own! That’s the exact name of the place that I’m about to introduce to you. My wife found this place online and decided that we should all go make some terrariums of our own.

  Not far off from Woodleigh station, just a couple of stops away by bus. From outside the store you’ll see many cool stuff on display! Terrarium table lamps and lightbulbs. On closer inspection, they do offer courses to make your own copper lamp too!

  The store is quite spacious with terrarium stuff all over the shelves. There’s also a few tables there for DIY sessions and registered lessons like ours. The teacher also introduced herself to us and showed us around the shop to pick our materials.

So first step! Pick a type of terrarium you want to make! Is it open terrarium or is it closed terrarium? I picked the open one because it looks nicer and I had bad experience with closed ones before. (it just fogs up and I can’t see anything!). My wife on the other hand prefers the closed one.

Next step! Choose your plants. For open terrarium I get to choose a pot of succulent. Succulents are the cactus family type of plants. Hardy and need very little water. For closed terrariums, my wife got to choose from a bunch of leafy Fittonias. These plants with veins like markings on the leafs need lots of moisture but can survive in offices without much sunlight.

Then finally the most exciting part! Choosing our own decorations. Coloured sand and pebbles. Lady bugs and tiny houses. All of them looked so cute and we took a long while to finally pick our choice. The teacher was telling us it’s ok to change our decorations later on because as we make our terrarium, we might have new ideas!

Place gravel at the bottom of the pot

Now time to start the lesson!

1) First we put gravel at the bottom. This is so that excess water that seeped to the bottom is more visible.

2) Place some dried moss (soaked in water) over the gravel so that when you layer the sand over, it doesn’t mix with the gravel. make sure that there are no gaps in the moss layer!

3) Finally add in some soil over the moss and I’m done with the foundation!

4) For closed terrarium they have an extra steps before putting the soil which is to add some active charcoal. This is so that when the water circulates itself in the close terrarium, the active charcoal cleans up the water so that it’s less likely to grow fungus and mold.

Now that our pot is filled up. We have to repot our selected plants into the new terrarium!

My succulent is actually a bunch of individual plants so when repotting, I split them into 2 bunch!

  Voilà! Not bad as first timers huh! My wife was a little jealous of my terrarium because it looked nicer than hers.

Conclusion

It was a fun session. We made our own terrarium and they gave us carriers to bring it home. Everything you need is here and there’s so many decorative materials. The price is not cheap but the experience and satisfaction is worth it. We were even thinking to come again and attend the copper lamp + terrarium course!

If you love plants and you love terrariums, we highly recommend this place to you. The teacher is very knowledgable and helpful, and the place is air-conditioned! (we can’t sit in the heat to do this.)

How to get here

The place can be a little hard to find at first but we managed to google map our way there without getting lost.

Make your own terrarium! We have always liked terrariums even though we are not very good at growing plants. At least I can claim I used to be gardening class back in primary school.