Introduction to Dish & Bottle Gardens for Beginners

Table of Contents

Introduction
A ‘Terrarium’ Is Not A Bottle Garden
Dish Gardens and Trough Gardens
Preparing Your Bottle Garden
What You Are Not Going to Put in Your Bottle
Best Plants Choices
Equipment for Your Miniature Garden
Trying Your Hand at a Moss Garden
Making Your Succulent and Cactus Garden in a Dish
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

A couple of decades ago I saw a friend picking up a large glass carboys, in which chemical liquids had been transported, from outside a manufacturing unit, and when I wanted to know what she would do with that container, she said – can you think of a better container in which to make a miniature garden?

At that time I had not even thought of the beauty of a miniature garden, in your interior, as a part of the design of your living room. That was because I was so used, to living in places where I had huge outdoor gardens, so bringing in the plants indoors was not something of which I had thought!

Later on, living in cities, and apartments, where the nearest outdoor garden was 25 stories below, and just one tiny patch of green, in a concrete jungle, I began to think that yes miniature gardens was one of the best ways in which I could bring a bit of greenery right inside my limited pigeonholed letterbox of a living space.