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Tabletop Garden – Where is the Fish?

By Sandy, on April 22nd, 2009

It is pretty quick and easy to make this tabletop garden – Where is the Fish? And it’s so cute too! 🙂

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Tabletop Garden – Double the Love

By Sandy, on April 20th, 2009

I especially made this tabletop garden – Double the Love as a bridal shower gift for a very good friend of mine. Hopefully, it will be a nice table decoration for her new home.

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Tabletop Garden – In the Outer Space

By Sandy, on April 16th, 2009

tabletop-cactus-garden-209 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 🙂

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Tabletop Garden – Cactus Garden

By Sandy, on April 14th, 2009

Cactus makes very good tabletop gardens. There are many species of cacti, some with outrageous colors, some with small yet flashy flowers, and some with weird shapes and sizes. We can use cactus to make a very big tabletop garden crammed with various types of cacti, or we can use some baby cacti to make a petit tabletop garden as small as a coffee cup.

Ideas of cactus garden are limitless. Just be creative and give it a try. I guarantee that you will find a lot of fun in making tabletop gardens with cactus too!

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My Star Got Crashed

By Sandy, on April 6th, 2009

A few weeks ago, my father knocked down the two cacti in my tabletop garden – My Star when he was rushing to the windows to save the carpet and furniture from getting wet by a sudden rain.

Actually I should have anticipated this… After playing and observing this tabletop garden for a while, I have found its design deficiency – weak support. The red and yellow cacti were very tall, yet, lack of strong support. There were neither plants nor rocks to provide the cacti with enough support.

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Watering Tillandsia (a.k.a. Air Plant)

By Sandy, on March 31st, 2009

With its epiphytic characteristics, Tillandsia has earned its nickname, air plant. Instead of the roots, the plants absorb water directly through their leaves, and use their roots as wire-like anchors, hanging on trees and rocks without soil.

Underwatering and Overwatering Your Tillandsia

Probably due to Tillandsia’s common name – Air Plant, many of us tend to think that these plants need very little or no water, as living on air. Well… of course, this is not true. Just like all other plants, Tillandsias need water. Continue reading Watering Tillandsia (a.k.a. Air Plant)

Tabletop Garden – I Love Air Plants

By Sandy, on March 25th, 2009

I love air plants. Aside from their exotic look, these plants are also extremely low maintenance. My air plants are just like my easy-going friends, hanging around, bringing some life to my room, and keeping me good company.

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How to Make Tabletop Garden – Bento Box

By Sandy, on March 11th, 2009

Because I want to use a wider variety of indoor plants that have different water needs for my tabletop garden – Bento Box, instead of planting all the plants into the same soil bed, I have kept them in individual pots. By doing so, instead of watering my plants together all at once, I can pick and water only those that I find are thirsty. And the same advantage applies to fertilizers.

So, with my garden container, my plants, pots, moss, etc, I was all ready to make my tabletop garden – Bento Box!

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Tabletop Garden – Bento Box

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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How to Choose Garden Container and Indoor Plants for Tabletop Garden – Bento Box?

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?

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