Weekend Project: Outdoor Terrarium

Written By ngadse Saturday, 9 June 2012 Edit

H5N1 few weeks agone I wrote close Handmade Garden Projects (Timber Press), a novel garden majority out that I was interested inwards yesteryear Seattle-based freelance garden writer, author, blogger, Lorene Edwards Forkner. The majority arrived this calendar week inwards the postal service offering upwards roughly pretty unique creative projects for the garden together with I but had to percentage ane of my favorites for a weekend projection idea, an outdoor terrarium. Lorene created this unique garden terminate tabular array of sorts yesteryear transforming an industrial lite fixture she salvaged.

Terrarium Basics: Click here for a helpful video on planting a terrarium which likewise suggests what plants operate best. Use pebbles inwards the bottom (for drainage), thence a sparse layer of activated charcoal (extracts fumes from decomposing matter) together with in conclusion a expert cactus or draining soil. Lorene tells us inwards her book, charcoal tin hold upwards flora at garden or aquarium provide stores together with to popular off on an outdoor terrarium inwards partial to amount shade to avoid cooking plants. Light fixtures similar this could hold upwards flora at relieve yards such every 2d Habitat for Humanity Restores. Photo yesteryear Lorene Edwards Forkner. Have a slap-up weekend!