Plants for florarium: list

Florarium is a small home greenhouse in a transparent glass or plastic container with plants growing inside.

What is a florarium?

Terrariums for plants (florariums) are large and small transparent containers with wooden or plastic inserts, with a narrowed inlet opening located on the side or on top. Sometimes they are completely covered with a lid.

Under the container for florarium can use a variety of bottles, flasks, jars or specially designed containers in which plants are grown. They can be large and small, desktop, floor and wall. The most important thing is to accurately select the plants suitable for the florarium and create the required conditions for them.

It must be maintained at a constant humidity and temperature. It can be heated and lighted using special equipment so that vegetation does not depend on natural heat and light.

Terrarium for plants takes up little space, so it is convenient for apartments with small window sills. Compositions in it look original and stylish, periodically plants for florarium, as they grow, it is necessary to transplant.

Why do you need a garden in the glass

1. Interior decoration. The composition for this purpose is used for a short period of time, so plants are selected in appearance without taking into account the characteristics of their cultivation.
2. For the cultivation of exotic plants, which require a certain temperature and high humidity.
3. Simplify the treatment of succulents and tropical moisture-loving plants.

Types of florariums. Care

There are several types:

• Closed with a tight lid or glass vases, bottles.
• Partially open. Compositions are created in bottles, vessels or vases that have a small opening.
• Open. In such florariums plants are grown that require constant airing and are not afraid of temperature changes during the day. Vases are round or oval with a wide opening.

Maintenance of the micro-greenhouse includes:

• Keeping the glass clean;
• Inspection of plants;
• Watering (if necessary);
• Transplanting plants, replacing the soil once every 2-3 years.

Criteria for choosing a florarium

1. Slow growth of plants and their miniature.
2. Consider for what purposes the composition is created.
3. Conditions for plant maintenance should be the same.

Pay attention to the following points:

• temperature;
• air humidity;
• watering;
• Soil composition.

Placing plants in a micro-greenhouse

High plants for the florarium are located in the middle, then medium to tall and low along the edge. Plants are planted directly in the ground or small pots, which are then decorated, decorated with shells, moss or colored ground.

To prepare the substrate, it should be remembered that it should not be too nutritious to avoid rapid plant growth. And to avoid decaying the roots due to high humidity, it must be breathable and airy. You can prepare the mixture yourself. For this, take in the ratio 1: 1: 1 perlite, sphagnum peat and vermiculite. If plants are planted in the soil, then it is necessary to make drainage from charcoal, expanded clay or small stones, which are pre-washed and disinfected. Plant the plants so that around each bush there is a place for its growth.

Care will not be much trouble if plants for the florarium are placed in small pots.

Use of ornaments

When decorating an open florarium, in advance prepare different twigs, unusual shells, intricate pebbles, any trinkets that are used for decoration. All these things must be of an unusual shape or have a bright color to complement and shade the finished composition. All the decorations will give the garden a harmonious and complete look. When using live plants, the micro-greenhouse is put to the window or illuminated.

Which plants are suitable for florarium

For the selection of plants should be remembered that not all flowers are suitable for making compositions in the florarium. First, do not choose fast growing plants. Secondly, for florariums of small size, very small flowers are taken, not more than 15 cm high. Third, for indoor florariums without ventilation, flowering plants, as well as succulents and cacti, are not used.

How to create the perfect fllorarium? Which plants are the most popular? The most common plants for the florarium are: maranth, selaginella, kalatea, diffenbachia, ferns, cryptanthus, fittonium, croton, rheo, alocasia. From flowering plants, preference is given to azaleas, cyclamen, and senpolias. From the family of cacti, only cacti of tropical forests are recommended.

Orchids are very whimsical plants, they are grown in special floraria. Beginners of floriculture may encounter difficulties in planting these plants in floraria.

Closed-type micro-greenhouse

Plants for this type of florarium are in a closed space under the glass and do not need watering. Thanks to a closed environment with its microclimate, it becomes possible to grow rare and exotic plants in any type of premises. Remove the fallen leaves and pinch the tips of grown plants - these are all care procedures that are performed as needed.

In a closed florarium, plants for breathing independently produce carbon dioxide and oxygen. Such a florarium must be hermetically sealed with a lid and not have any openings. For the purpose of ventilation, floraria of large volumes are equipped with a ventilation system. For small closed florariums (a vase with a lid, a bottle), ventilation is not required. Such micro-greenhouses must be protected from direct sunlight, so that plants do not die from the heat inside the bottle. Plants in the buried florarium do not require irrigation, since they have enough moisture.

Which representatives of the flora can decorate the florarium closed? Plants from which you can create magnificent compositions in it:

• Asplenium;
• Begonia (variety with small leaves);
• Kalatea;
• Cryptantus;
• Peperomy;
• Selaginella.

Dry florarium

The composition "desert landscape" is easy to clean and often used to create a micro-greenhouse. Plants for the florarium (photo below) dry - it's cacti: astrophytum, mammilaria, echinopsis, rebusia and succulents: echeveria, argyroderma, cerohlamis.

The land is used ready, bought in the store, from above make a layer of river sand, you can add a few large stones. Plants are planted in a ready florarium.

Micro-greenhouse "tropical forest"

In any, even a small container, you can create a composition that is similar to a tropical forest, if you use plants that are different in height. It is necessary that the foreground allows to see everything that is behind it.

When selecting plants, the main attention should be paid to the same needs for soil and moisture, no need to select outlandish species of the tropics. Plants for the florarium (list below), allowing to create a composition of the "tropical forest": hamedorei, ayr, begonias, phytons and various kinds of bamboo. Peat, leaf earth and coarse sand should be present in the soil.

Care for such a florarium is reduced to maintaining a temperature of about 25 degrees, humidity of at least 80 percent, frequent watering and spraying of plants.

Florarium "moss"

Mosses are common plants, there are more than 10 thousand species. They survive in the most extreme climatic conditions. Usually form dense clusters in moist and shady places. There are also those that grow exceptionally well on dry plots illuminated by the sun.

In micro-oranges, moss basically has a secondary role, but you can make it the "main character" of the composition. Material to buy in a flower shop or some types of moss to bring from the forest.

Together with sphagnum, you can use other plants, only you have to pick them correctly. For planting use a special primer for moss, he loves sour soil.

Care of this composition is very simple: put a container of water in a container and constantly spray it.

Florarium with their own hands

For manufacture it is required:

• Any glass containers;
• The corresponding soil;
• drainage;
• coal;
• plants;
• Elements for decoration;
• Necessary tools.

Prepared packaging should be washed and boiled. To make a drainage a layer in 4 see On a drainage layer to put tablets of the activated coal or a charcoal, preliminary having crushed it. It is necessary for the prevention of plant diseases. Pour moist soil of centimeters 8, use the purchased substrate. To impart decorativeness, you can mix layers of soil and colored sand.

Plants (succulents, ivy, ferns, senpolia, cacti) are pulled out of pots, peeled roots and prepared for planting.

Soil level, make small holes and plant them neatly plants for the florarium, the list with photos of which is higher. Make sure that the leaves do not touch the sides of the vessel. Finish planting and sprinkle. In the container add decorative jewelry.

Planting plants in a glass container is not pampering, but a tradition that came from the 19th century. And today floreries are a pleasure, which all get by contemplating the most beautiful floral and floral compositions.