Illustrated DIY guide to making miniature potted plants, teaching you how to create a glass garden

  Take one or several plants with similar habits, use your own creativity, and plant them in a transparent glass container to form a miniature plant landscape world that is both ornamental and interesting, also called a bottle garden. The method for making a bottle garden is simple. Whether placed on a windowsill or an office desk, it is a pleasing "glass garden," and whenever you see it, it will make your good mood go UP UP~

  Materials: glass bottle, soil, plants, small stones

  Step 1: Prepare the required materials. Bottle garden plants generally use small plants, mostly ferns (fern types), Pilea, evergreen vines or pearl grass, maidenhair fern, Peperomia, Cyrtomium, Saxifraga, Peperomia, etc. For the substrate, use materials with strong air permeability and water retention, such as cinders, vermiculite, Leca, and perlite.

  Step 2: Place a layer of pebbles at the bottom of the glass container for drainage. Before putting in the pebbles, scald and soak the stones with hot water to sterilize and disinfect them.

  Step 3: Water the plants a little in their original container, and wait a few minutes for them to drain, so that when they are put into the glass container there is no need to irrigate. Before planting, they must not be watered too wet, as this is not good for removing them from the pot. In order to plant the small plants in front and the large ones in the back, the soil can be spread with a bit of a slope, higher at the back and lower at the front.