50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens : Decorating Your Home with Indoor Plants

Refresh and revive your décor with a beautiful mini garden oasis!

• 50 micro-garden projects for terrariums, green walls, hanging plants, kokedamas, and more
• Step-by-step instructions, helpful photographs, and illustrations for each garden "recipe"
• Insightful overview on arrangements, plants, soil, and daily care
• Handy tips on when to plant and how to maintain every project

Learn how the smallest window sill, the tiniest balcony, or a sliver of space on a bookcase can be adorned by thriving greenery! This book is the inspiration you need to make your small living space greener—whether you rent a small apartment, own a small home, or just want to bring some living color to your indoor space.

50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens is filled with 50 inventive micro-garden ideas that were specifically selected for their simplicity and easy upkeep. You'll find terrariums, mini greenhouses, hanging plants, and other original compositions among these stunning garden projects. Create and maintain a variety of charming and low-maintenance mini indoor gardens, whether you prefer succulents, cacti, greenery, flowering plants, vegetables, or orchids!

The chosen plants within these pages are all inexpensive, easy to find at your local garden center, and can each thrive with simple care. But the containers and displays are creative and out-of-the-box! Long gone are the days of the basic terracotta pot. Recycle and transform everyday objects into amazing and beautiful plant displays, from glass jars and tin cans to sieves, seashells, and even old chairs!

Think of 50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens as a visual recipe book to help you create and modify your own personal mini garden. You'll learn how to transform unique items into decorative plant containers, grow inspired with the beautiful photography and helpful tips, and awaken the creative gardener in you!

"Like many stellar indoor gardening books, 50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens shares the beauty and benefits of growing houseplants. This book goes even further, teaching you to play with your houseplants. The clever, fun projects throughout the book are easy to accomplish and gorgeous to behold. Fair warning: once you get started creating indoor garden works of art, you won't want to stop!"
—JULIE BAWDEN-DAVIS, author of Indoor Gardening the Organic Way and Fairy Gardening, Parade garden columnist, and publisher of HealthyHouseplants

Catherine Delvaux is an agronomist and editor in chief of the French gardening magazine Detente Jardin. She is the author of several gardening books including The 50 Golden Rules of Permaculture and How to Grow From Seeds and Seedlings.