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By Sandy, on April 16th, 2009
 While some girls don’t find my tabletop cactus garden – In the Outer Space – absolutely lovable, all the guys, whom I have shown this tabletop cactus garden to, like the garden right at their first sight. Maybe it’s the strong contrasts of colors and shapes in the cactus garden that most guys find very cool about. I am not sure why. But anyways, I love these cacti. They are just soooo lovely 🙂
Continue reading Tabletop Garden – In the Outer Space
By Sandy, on April 12th, 2009
When we pot our plant for the first time after getting it from a garden nursery, or repot our houseplant when it has outgrown its container, we have to choose a new container with the right size for our plant.
Using Garden Containers Too Big
 When a houseplant gets too large for its container, its roots will start circling around inside the container, and restricting themselves. If our houseplants appear to dry out more quickly than they used to, but are otherwise healthy, the plants are probably pot bound. Continue reading Containers for Houseplants – Size Matters!
By Sandy, on April 10th, 2009
Ok! Here is a lesson that I have learned recently – Don’t try to save ourselves some work by planting our houseplant in a container too large, for we could damage or even kill our plants!
 
Continue reading My African Violet Doesn’t Like Its Big House
By Sandy, on March 29th, 2009
 Here is a list of the most common houseplants that are suitable for indoor gardening. The houseplants in this list are mostly easy-to-grow, low maintenance, hardy plants that fit the busy lifestyle of us, the city gardeners.
Continue reading Suitable Plants for Indoor Gardening
By Sandy, on March 19th, 2009
I bought these two Echeverias in December last year for my tabletop garden – Merry Christmas. In these three months, the stems of these Echeverias have kept stretching longer and longer, and now, they are like a Yao Ming of their genus.
Continue reading My Echeveria is Growing Way Too Tall!
By Sandy, on March 9th, 2009
This is my tabletop garden – Bento Box. This is the largest tabletop container garden I have made so far and I love it! This tabletop garden is filled with 10 pots of flowers and foliage plants, including two orchids, a mini fittonia, a caladium, two kalanchoes, etc.
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By Sandy, on March 9th, 2009
Garden Container
 If you want to put more indoor plants in your tabletop garden, you need to use a bigger garden container with a wider opening. The size of my garden container is approximately 35 cm long, 15 cm wide (the widest part of the container), and 10 cm deep. And I would suggest you to use a garden container with some weight, so the container will not topple easily, but can keep its balance and stand stably when you are arranging the plants in the container.
Sizes of Indoor Plants
The number of indoor plants you get for your tabletop garden depends on the size of your garden container. Continue reading How to Choose Garden Container and Indoor Plants for Tabletop Garden – Bento Box?
By Sandy, on March 2nd, 2009
My African violet, fantasy gold, isn’t growing much since I bought it in November last year. After some research that I have done and getting advices from other gardeners, I believe that the problem is due to overwatering and wrong size of container. African violet hates soggy soil. And with a container that is too large, the soil can be kept soggy for a very long period of time.
Continue reading Why My African Violet Isn’t Growing Much?
By Sandy, on February 24th, 2009
This is my tabletop garden – Bento Box, filled with sweet orchids, mini fittonia, caladium, kalanchoes … a total of 8 pots of flowers and foliage.
As the photo here shows, I think this tabletop garden needs 2 more little plants to be called as completed. Probably some type of white flowers or some green foliage plants would make a nice match.
What do you think?
Continue reading Tabletop Garden – My Bento is Almost Ready!
By Sandy, on February 19th, 2009
I realized the need to remake my tabletop garden – Ocean Breeze when I watered the garden for the first time after its making. I shouldn’t put the stones and marbles at the bottom of the container in the first place, at least, not so many of them.
Originally, I put the stones and marbles there for three reasons.
Continue reading The Remake of Tabletop Garden – Ocean Breeze
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