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A Detailed Guide to Making Bottle Gardens with Bottle-Garden Plants

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A bottle garden is a special decorative piece made by planting tiny plants in a transparent glass bottle or transparent plastic container. For planting, choose small plants and fewer varieties; simplicity is preferred over complexity. Generally, you can choose small plants such as ferns (fern family), creeping fig, ivy, or pearl grass. In addition, plants such as maidenhair fern, peperomia, male fern, saxifrage, and pepperomia can also be used. For the bottle garden growing medium, choose materials that are both breathable and strongly water-retentive, such as cinders, vermiculite, LECA clay pebbles, and perlite. The growing medium placed inside a bottle garden is generally divided into three

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For planting, choose small plants and fewer varieties; simplicity is preferred over complexity. Generally, you can choose small plants such as ferns (fern family), creeping fig, ivy, or pearl grass. In addition, plants such as maidenhair fern, peperomia, male fern, saxifrage, and pepperomia can also be used.

For the bottle garden growing medium, choose materials that are both breathable and strongly water-retentive, such as cinders, vermiculite, LECA clay pebbles, and perlite. The growing medium placed inside a bottle garden is generally divided into three layers: first place a layer of pebbles or perlite at the bottom to facilitate drainage; fill a layer of charcoal granules in the middle to filter impurities; the top soil layer can be prepared as a growing medium in a ratio of 1 part sandy soil, 1 part humus soil, and 1 part garden soil. The total height of the layers should not exceed 1/4 of the bottle's height. When planting, use tweezers to gently place the plants one by one into the container medium, then cover the plant roots with a thin layer of soil.

After planting, water along the wall of the container; never wash the plants into disorder. After watering, put the bottle cap on. For the first few days, avoid strong light exposure; only when the plants can adapt to the environment inside the bottle may they be moved into sunlight.

It is best to open the bottle cap every week to check soil moisture. If water droplets on the bottle wall do not dissipate for a long time, it indicates that the humidity inside the container is too high, and the bottle cap needs to be opened to release some water vapor before putting it back on. For "bottle-garden plants," "water, light, and temperature" are the three basic elements of care. Plants grown in open bottle gardens need relatively more water, about once a week, while capped bottle gardens should be watered at appropriate times according to their specific growth conditions. After planting, a bottle garden should not be placed in strong sunlight for long periods.

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