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Creating and growing gardens is an interesting and rewarding activity. Grow a garden or equip household plot not for everyone. It takes skill, practice, time and effort. Easier to create DIY miniature potted garden. This type of ornamental gardening is very popular. Creating a mini-garden will not take time and effort, but it will bring pleasure from work and the joy of contemplating one's own creation.

An inexperienced gardener can start with a mini-garden with cacti and succulents. It is not difficult to create compositions from succulents with your own hands.

These plants get along well with each other, unpretentious And require minimal care. In order for the mini-garden in a pot to retain its original structure for a long time, it is necessary to choose varieties that grow at the same rate.

Preparing for landing

Creating a mini-garden in a pot with your own hands requires preparation. For this you need:

• choose a place;
• think over the composition;
• pick up a pot or other container;
• choose plants;
• prepare soil and drainage;
• pick decor.

Location selection

Estimate the distance from which the garden will open in all its glory. The greater the distance, the larger the composition should be.

Cacti and succulents love the sun. Need a straight line sunlight for two hours a day, no less. With a lack of light, the stems of plants are bent.

If the garden is planned to be placed not on the windowsill, then the rule must be followed: the less light, the lower the temperature and drier soil.

Gallery: mini-garden of cacti and succulents (25 photos)

Composition

The type of garden depends on the location. If the sides are viewed in the same way, create circular composition in the form of a small slide. If the gaze falls from above, then a flat “lawn” structure will do.

The composition of low succulents of different shapes and colors looks beautiful.

Suitable for windowsill garden asymmetric version with plants of different heights.

Composition style may vary. It is interesting to create a mini-park, lay sandy paths, put benches and toys. You can depict the desert landscape using yellow sand and cacti, or you can create a fabulous winter forest from succulent trees and snow-white decorative sand.

When choosing a pot, consider the size of the roots. Cacti and succulents grow well in small bowls and on dishes.

Gardens look harmonious, where the height of the pot is a third of the height of the composition. However, even in a high ceramic pot they create a unique landscape if they beat off on one side big piece, and ledges of a mountain cascade are made from its shards.

Cascading composition are constructed by placing pots of different diameters one inside the other.

Mini-gardens look great in transparent round vessels, earthenware and porcelain dishes. Use containers made of plastic, wood and wicker baskets. The main thing is to provide for the presence of holes or a thick drainage layer, since the roots of succulents and cacti do not tolerate waterlogging of the soil.

The outer walls of the pots can be additionally decorated, but the color of the decor should have neutral shades. This will emphasize the brightness of the flowers of the garden itself.

Plant selection

Good for a mini garden slow growing varieties. Cacti with flowers and succulents with small leaves are considered ideal.

In a rocky garden, cacti, stone roses, haworthia and sedum will look.

Among the stones on the miniature ones, dense pachyphytum, ovoid pachyphytum and gasteria feel great.

If a garden of succulents is decorated in a park style, then the central element is Money Tree or aeonium arborescens. An excellent accent in the composition of undersized succulents will be the pachyphytum bract.

A mixed garden of cacti and succulents is not recommended to be planted. Cacti need a cool, dry winter to bloom. With frequent winter watering, the tops of cacti are drawn out, and flowers become rare. In succulents, prolonged dryness can cause leaf drop. Instead of cacti, strapelia are added to the composition of succulents, which are very similar to cacti and bloom with large flowers in the shape of stars.

Any cacti for a garden in a pot will do. cacti look great different sizes and forms with flowers of the same shade. Ideally, each specimen is best left in an individual plastic pot with drainage holes. This will prevent the roots from intertwining. It will always be possible to easily remove a diseased plant and replace it with a new one. Choose those cacti that grow slowly, give few children and bloom beautifully. Echinofossulocactus, astrophytums and hymnocalyciums are suitable for planting. Mammillaria and Chamecerius Selvestra look good.

Soil and drainage

To create a composition in a pot, you need to purchase a special soil or make it yourself. A substrate of equal parts of leaf humus and sand with small additions of charcoal and expanded clay is well suited.

Expanded clay is more often used as drainage, but when planting in a transparent glass vessel use decorative pebbles and coarse sand. In such a drainage, recesses are made for the soil so that it is not visible through the transparent walls of the pots.

Decor

Cacti and succulents go well with natural materials. Suitable for any composition

• pebbles;
• shells;
• pebbles;
• dry twigs;
• bumps.

The composition will be decorated with powders of colored sand and decorative elements from glass.

For the kindergarten landscape style small ceramic tiles, miniature doll furniture, toys and artificial flowers.

Planting and caring for a mini-garden

Succulents are planted freely, at fairly large intervals. This is necessary so that growing, they do not interfere with the development of neighboring plants. Cacti can be planted tightly, but it is better for each plant to pick up an individual small capacity.

Prepare pots, materials and tools. Before planting, rinse the pot and pan. Used containers and natural elements must be scalded, sand must be calcined.

Landing

Landing steps:

1. Drainage is laid at the bottom of the tank - pebbles, sand, expanded clay and compacted tightly. The drainage layer is 15–25% of the volume of the pot, but it can be more if planted in a pot without holes.
2. Pour in the soil mixture.
3. Planting plants. The root system must be carefully straightened and sprinkled with soil, without falling asleep the root neck. Plants do not need to be watered immediately after planting. This should be done within 2-3 days.
4. Sprinkle decorative powder. Small pebbles, expanded clay and coarse sand will not only decorate the composition, but also protect it from overheating in the bright sun.
5. Decorate the garden with large decorative elements.

Care

Caring for miniature plants is not difficult. Compositions of cacti and succulents proper fit and maintenance, they will last 2-3 years unchanged. Water the garden should be carefully and regularly. It is best to do this from a pallet or from a watering can with a sprinkler. It is necessary to direct the jet to large decorative stones so that the water gradually flows onto the soil and does not disturb its structure.

Compositions of cacti require a dormant period in winter. A garden of succulents in summer should be in a brightly lit place, and in winter it is better to move it to partial shade. If straight Sun rays even in summer they rarely get into the mini-garden, it is better to choose plants that tolerate penumbra well: bearberry, gules, haworthia and green-leaved gasteria.

Despite optimal selection, the mini garden of succulents still grows after a while. Transplants and corrections will be required. This is exciting and exciting work. It evokes a flight of fancy and develops creativity. The mini-garden will please for a long time.

If there are several varieties of cacti in the house, and they are all planted in different pots, then it's time to plant them together. Cactus gardens look very impressive, easy to make, easy to care for. How to make them and what you need for this, read below.

Size matters: determine the size of the composition

First of all, you need to decide on the size of the composition: it will be a simple small cactus plant or a garden in a cup, glass, bowl, or a large composition in an aquarium, bowl, large wide flowerpot. See if there is enough space on the windowsill or shelf, near the window, for a future masterpiece. Take into account the illumination - it should be sufficient, not scarce. In small pots, respectively, it is necessary to plant cacti that do not grow quickly or grow large.

Mini garden in the aquarium Mini cactus garden in a cup

Selection of cacti

Before proceeding with the grouping of thorny plants, you need to find out if they fit together, or if their cohabitation is undesirable. For example, cereus grows quickly and grows large - it is not suitable for small mini-gardens. And mammillaria and echinocactus do not like temperatures below +15, therefore, it is better not to combine them with cold-resistant cacti. In more detail, the features and preferences of the most common types of cacti can be read.

Soil preparation for a mini-garden

When the choice is made, you need to take care of the soil mixture for cacti. You can go two ways:

1. Buy a ready-made mixture for cacti in the store. Prepare only a drainage layer of gravel, small pebbles, broken brick or foam (what you can find).

Now it remains only to prepare decorative trinkets.

Selection of decorative accessories for a mini cactus garden

The most unexpected items that can fit in size can act as decor. You can come up with a thematic composition (sea, desert, rural yard and others) or simply arrange it according to your desire and mood. Here are some accessories you can use:

• toy household equipment: shovels, rakes, buckets, watering cans;
• stones different breeds and sizes;
• marine attributes;
• beads of different sizes;
• sand of different colors;
• small figurines of animals, insects, men, gnomes.

And much more, because human imagination has no limits.

Making an indoor cactus garden

Planting a cactus garden is as follows:

• Pour a drainage layer at the bottom of the pot, remembering to make holes in the pot itself.
• Pour a small amount of potting mix into the pot.
• Place cacti in a pot for reference and adjustment.

• Choose the most good option accommodation.
• Plant one at a time, cacti in a flowerpot.
• Fill with soil mixture, and put pebbles or pour sand on top.
• Decorate at your discretion and taste.
• Watering on the day of planting cacti is not worth it.

Well, the composition is ready to admire and grow on the windowsill.

Having created a mini-garden of cacti with your own hands, you can get a lot of pleasant emotions from the very process of planting and decorating. And the originality and beauty of the composition will delight the eyes for more than one year.

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Currently, there is a lot of information, photos, master classes on how to various crafts from any materials. Craftswomen, mothers who are fond of this type of creativity are not averse to trying their hand at making new crafts, both for themselves, for sale, and for joint creative pursuit with kids. This article offers a variety of ideas and options for how to make a cactus.

Before starting to make crafts, many begin to think about the question: What can I make a cactus from with my own hands?

But do not worry, there are many different options, not only different techniques, but also using various materials. We list some of them: knitted, crocheted, dried, sewn from various fabrics and materials, fashioned, made from paper, stones and many others.

Many needlewomen use cactus and succulents in their creative works, because with its brightness and unusualness it attracts attention, gives a lot of ideas for creating your creative works.

Now we will consider several manufacturing options that are very effective, beautiful, functional and unusual. Although at first glance it seems that it is difficult to complete them, but here is a step-by-step instruction for making cacti, following it you will definitely get a very beautiful and original flower.

Cactus from paper, cardboard

There are a lot of manufacturing options. First you need to make a cactus template that you came up with to make, but don't be upset if you don't succeed, you can download and print ready-made templates and use them.

Also, to create a finished exposure, you can make a pot, for example, from a disposable tea / coffee mug, from a used can, a glued paper cone, any plastic box of the required size, etc.

Take a template and cut it out. We choose the desired color of paper and make blanks. We cut everything, fold it and glue it (cacti and needles are painted with paints), if necessary, a pot is made. Can also be made bright flower and glue it to the cactus.

The pot can be pasted over with multi-colored tape and additional decorative elements can be added to your taste. The craft can be used as a handmade gift, and it will also enliven and decorate any interior.

Pebble cactus

This version of the craft is very unusual, but most importantly, it will warm memories of summer, the sea, sunny days and bright events.

It is necessary to take pebbles of various sizes, rinse, dry. Acrylic paints paint the pebbles, apply the background, sides, needles, you can also draw all kinds of flowers of different colors and shapes. Wait for complete drying.

At this time, take a flower pot of the required size and fill it with stone chips, leaving a third of the pot empty. In the pot, firmly insert the painted pebbles into the crumbs.

Key rings cacti

Key chains are very functional and will serve as toy and decorative cacti. They will attract attention with their unusualness, pricklyness and functionality.

For manufacturing, you need a small amount of yarn of various colors and hosiery knitting needles, we will knit the intended shape of the cactus (circle, oval), we will hammer its inside with a padding polyester and put it aside for a while. Let's take the plastic of brown or other tones and blind the pot right size and roast it in the oven.

With PVA glue, generously lubricate the tip of the cactus and attach it to the pot, wait for it to dry completely. We carefully attach the iron ring to the top of the cactus. You can crochet a flower in bright colors and attach it to the side. It will turn out very beautiful and functional!

Knitted cactus pillows

Pillow, knitted with your own hands, and even in the form of a cactus!!! How attractive, original, convenient. This pillow will decorate the interior, be comfortable and functional.

Note!

Before you start, you need to remember that you need to knit it in the shape of a cactus so that there is a more realistic similarity effect, plus it is advisable to choose a type of knitting that is similar in texture to a cactus and do not forget to add small parts- beautiful flower.

Take the yarn of the required color, knitting needles, choose the pattern you like and start knitting, after knitting, connect the seams, fill with padding polyester. Knit a flower from bright yarn.

Needle bed - do-it-yourself cactus

There is a different set of photos of crafts in the form of a cactus made various methods. For example, needle beds crocheted, knitted, made of fabric and felt.

Any hostess needs a needle bed, it will be especially pleasant to use it if you know that it was made with your own hands and with love and, of course, it will decorate the work area with its unusualness.

Pincushion knitted

To do this, take the yarn of the intended color, knitting needles, knit with an “elastic band” to the required size, take a needle and sew. We fill it with padding polyester, shape it into a circle and sew up the bottom. We take flower pot, pour expanded clay or pebbles for gravity, cut out a circle from the foam plastic the size of the upper diameter of the pot and cut a circle in the center for attaching the associated cactus.

Note!

We paint the resulting circle in Brown color, glue the edges of the foam and gently insert the cactus into it so that the foam does not break. We are waiting for complete drying. At this time, we are preparing flowers - they can be made of paper or crocheted, attached to a cactus. The final stage- decorate with needles - pins.

Crocheted needle bed

The implementation of this craft is not much different from that described above. Only a hook is used, and all materials and methods are the same.

It is necessary to crochet a cactus, fill it with synthetic winterizer, decorate with a flower and needles - pins. Prepare a pot and a foam hole in advance, grease the inner hole with glue and carefully insert the cactus.

Pincushion made of felt or fabric

These needle beds are suitable for those who cannot knit or want to try. new way manufacturing. Felt - the material is very easy to use, it does not crumble and it is pleasant to work with it. The fabric is more whimsical, but each needlewoman chooses the material she likes.

When using any materials, the craft will always be unique and made with love. Decide on the material. We make a template, we make samples according to it. We sew them, you can leave the seams outside, or you can turn the sample inside out.

We fill the cactus with synthetic winterizer. You can prepare a pot for a needle bed or sew on a ribbon to hang. Beautifully decorate a cactus by making a flower, eyes, mouth, nose, insert pins - everything is at your discretion and taste.

Note!

DIY photo of cacti

Don't have enough space on your windowsill? A lot of sand plants are scattered all over the windows and they do not have any aesthetic appearance? There is a way out - make compositions from the cactus family. Collect several types in one bowl, and you will see how they will be transformed appearance. From the many separately growing, several beautiful compositions from cacti and succulents.

Cacti, sharp scissors or secateurs, earth, drainage, a bowl, potassium permanganate, water and fantasy - this is all you need when composing a composition.

Consider the step-by-step instructions for composing a composition of cacti:

1. We collect all our cacti and succulents, free them from old pots and earth, look at all the roots and the body of the cactus itself. If there are rotten places, carefully cut or remove them.

Separately, we make a solution of potassium permanganate and water to disinfect our prickly plants. To do this, dissolve a few crystals of potassium permanganate in warm water(35–40°C), and place our thorny plants in our solution for a while. After 15–20 minutes, we take out our beauties, put them on a newspaper and let them dry.

2. We prepare a container for our composition. For most species, a shallow wide pot is suitable, in this case we use a bowl. At the bottom of the bowl we put expanded clay for our drainage. Drainage should be 3-4 centimeters high. We add a little earth from above and make recesses for planting our plants, having thought over the appearance of the composition in advance. Do not forget that you need to combine cacti and succulents with the same lighting and care needs.

3. Planting cacti and succulents. There are two ways to plant plants: each cactus in a separate pot, using a bowl as a planter, or planting directly into the ground. This choice is yours to make.

If planting takes place in separate pots in a bowl, then we expose our pots with already planted cacti according to the planned plan, and sprinkle the container between the pots with earth, and on top you can use different stones, shells or colored glass.

Landing directly into the ground occurs in a slightly different way. Our “thorns” and succulents are planted in pre-prepared pits for plants, sprinkled with earth on top and lightly tamped with fingers. From above, we also, if desired, sprinkle the ground with stones, shells or polished glass.

4. The final stage is watering and lighting the compositions after planting. After planting, transplanting or transshipment, cacti are not watered and are not exposed to a sunny place. For a few days, place your composition in partial shade. Then, instead of watering, you can spray with small drops so that there are not drops, but mist. And after a week you can already put it in a sunny place.

Such compositions of cacti and succulents will delight your eye not only on the window sill, but also in any lighted place in your room.

There are plants that

Cacti in the interior

 12:00 06 May 2016

There are plants that can decorate our lives without requiring much effort and a lot of time in return. These are cacti - prickly inhabitants of deserts. They are the most unpretentious of all indoor plants, moreover, they are perfect for interior decoration.

The cactus has a very expressive silhouette, so it will be appropriate in almost any room. In a spacious room, for example, a large overgrown cactus that looks like a tree will look good. It can be placed in a tall clay pot in the very corner of the room, it will give your interior an exotic touch and serve as a symbolic space divider. In a cramped room, it is better to place small cacti, they will create a certain atmosphere in the interior and help to visually hide some imperfections. Perfect solution: combine small cacti into groups and put on coffee table, on the shelves of a bookcase, on the steps of the stairs.

Any glass container can serve as a pot for cacti. For greater decorativeness in a glass pot, the soil can be alternated with light pebbles or decorative colored pebbles.

Since cacti do not need a lot of soil, you can abandon the standard flower pots in favor of the original ones, and sometimes do without them altogether, replacing them with objects that seem to be completely unsuitable for these purposes. Cacti in unusual pots of various colors and shapes will become bright accent in any interior.

Compositions of several cacti that match in shape or shade look quite impressive. When composing such compositions, taller specimens or cacti with a darker silhouette can be placed in the background. And a collection of small mini cacti can be placed in wide flowerpots. Unlike the standard composition, the collection will be able to emphasize the individuality and beauty of each plant.

By the way, cacti are perfectly combined with others. indoor plants. Therefore, creating an interior composition of several cacti on a table or on a windowsill, you can supplement it with other plants - without thorns. In this case, of course, it is worth considering their needs and features of caring for them.

Cacti feel good in glass mini greenhouses, where you can maintain the optimum temperature for them. In addition, in such greenhouses, cacti look very original. Especially if you cover a composition of several small cacti with a glass cap. And if you make a backlight under the glass, then in the evening such a composition will be the center of attention of the entire interior.

With the help of cacti, you can also create a colorful mini zen garden in the interior. For this upper layer soil should be covered with fine sand and, using any stick, draw geometric patterns on the sand. Such a composition with bewitching figures on the sand is perfect for dealing with stress and helping to relax after a hard day. Master class on creation miniature garden zen with your own hands you can see.

Cactus care at home

Despite the fact that cacti are quite undemanding plants, it is important to follow certain care rules so that they please us and decorate our interior for as long as possible.

• In the summer, you can water the cacti as needed, and even less often in the winter. Some cacti need only be watered once a month. The main thing is to smoothly change the irrigation regimes (switch from winter to summer, and vice versa).
• During the growth period, cacti prefer moderate temperatures. At rest, it is better to keep them in a cool room (15-18 ° C).
• The soil for the cactus should be crumbly and breathable. Well suited earth mixed with sand. You can also purchase a ready-made substrate that will provide good growth cacti.
• Caring for cacti requires feeding the plants with a special fertilizer for succulents or complex fertilizer for indoor plants.
• Cacti are propagated in spring or autumn by rooting cuttings. Before planting, the cuttings are dried for several days.
• You can transplant young cacti once a year, and older ones as needed. Moreover, cacti do not need spacious pots.
• In order for cacti to bloom at home, you need to choose certain varieties. For example, Rebutia (Rebutia) and Mammillaria (Mammillaria) bloom easily at the age of 2-3 years. For flowering, cacti need, first of all, a cold and dry wintering, and in summer good watering and outdoor living.