So this is going to be my first blogpost! YAY! Please excuse any mistakes I make, I'm kinda a blogging noob! This blog is going to be all about experiences I have, and things I do in my life, off of youtube. Since I am the BIGGEST arts and crafts nerd ever, I thought what a better way to start off my blogging experience than with a DIY!
I have been wanting to make a succulent terrarium for the longest time, and it wasn't until I found the perfect bowl that I finally went ahead and made one. This is a DIY succulent Terrarium, if you don't know what that is, well do you know what an aquarium is? Aqua is latin for water, and Terra is land for land, so it's kinda like your own little garden in a bowl. A succulent terrarium basically means this little garden needs a lot of sunlight, and only a little bit of water.
Let's Get Started!
Here are the supplies you'll need: Gravel, Moss, Small Succulent Plants, a Bowl, Potting Mix, and decorations!
You can find all these supplies at a gardening store and/or a craft store such as Michael's. For decorations I used a small wooden bridge made for fairy gardens, small blue pebbles to use as pretend water, and a little plastic cat to sit on the bridge. I had also bought a cute little bucket, with a tiny shovel but that seemed gotten lost on the way back home from the garden store.
I added the gravel first since my bowl doesn't have a drain for excess water, the gravel will absorb it. Only do this if you don't have a draining hole in your bowl, otherwise save the gravel as decor on top of the potting mix.
I added the potting mix on top of the gravel, that way I can now move on to planting the succulent plants. Make sure to evenly spread the soil all around your bowl, so your plant's roots have plenty of room to grow.
I started loosening up the plants by squeezing them while they were still in their pots, this made the plants easily slide out without breaking off their roots. Be VERY careful not to break the plants while taking them out of their pots.
I simply made small holes in the potting mix and placed my plant inside. I added more soil to make sure the plant was nice and snug.
This is what it looked like once I added my three little succulent plants. I decided to not use a cactus even though it was the more colorful route. The reason I didn't is because I've never had very good luck with cactuses and I didn't want to get poked, or go through the process of planting that in a small bowl. Basically I was bound to get poked.... uhh NO thank you!
Now my little terrarium looks so green, with the added moss! I just placed this all around to cover up the brown soil. Soon enough the moss will begin to grow and fill up the space a little more. So, all the planting is done, now it's time to get to my favorite part.....DECORATING!!
This was by far the best part of making this terrarium, it was so much fun deciding what to put in my little garden. Honestly you can do as much or as little as you'd like. Put as many colors, and decorations as you want. I've seen miniature picnic sets with wine and cheese, small animals, little people, there are tons of different ways of going about making a terrarium. Go on Pinterest and look up it up you'll find plenty of fun creative ideas.
Now go and have fun creating a small lush, green, world of your own!
That's it for my blog post today, I hope you all enjoyed it, and leave a comment and go ahead and check out my youtube channel.... go on you know you want to! ;)
Love, Elisabeth
