Florarium is not just an elegant mini-garden in a transparent vessel, it is a unique world of wildlife created in a small space. Thanks to the glass container, flower growers manage to create a favorable climate even for capricious tropical plants.
Many indoor flowers are suitable for the florarium, but they must be combined and harmonized in the vessel. It is important to choose plants that are suitable for the type and growing conditions.
To create a wet mini-garden, moss, fern, selaginella, saltwort are suitable. In a humid environment, several types of fern will perfectly take root: maidenhair, asplenium, pteris and mnogoryadnik. For the decoration of stones and individual areas in the florarium, sphagnum is useful.
Ferns and moss are used for decoration, but in a mini-garden there must be a bright plant, that is, the center of the composition that attracts attention. Flowering plants will cope with this task: orchid, cyclamen, violet, azalea, etc.
It is important to remember that special conditions must be created for an orchid in a mini-garden. The design must have a heating and ventilation system, without them the plant will die. Violets can also decorate the florarium, for this it is better to choose dwarf species. Another option is cyclamen, which often does not take root in apartments due to insufficient humidity. This can be fixed by placing a flower in the florarium.
The mini-garden is decorated with plants with beautiful leaves. Fittonia is often found in such compositions, but it can be planted in containers with good ventilation. Crotons, alocasia, begonias and cryptanthus will decorate the garden with their leaves.
When choosing plants for the florarium, it is important to remember that they must not only be miniature, but also grow slowly, otherwise the chosen vessel will quickly become small. Such flower arrangements can be supplemented with marsh calamus, ivy, dieffenbachia, asparagus and tradescantia.
