Potted flower arrangements in pots (with photo). Compositions from potted and indoor plants

Ludmila Tazeeva

Forget the conventional wisdom that to grow plants you need " light hand". Anyone can grow the most common species and make them attractive. But if you choose a delicate or capricious plant, then a "light hand" will not help you. Try to select plants that need approximately same lighting, watering and temperature regime. Now let's talk about location. indoor plants and about compositions.

There are only a few rules for the location of plants. They must match the environment. large plants should be placed in spacious rooms, small on windowsills. spectacular plant can stand alone, but nondescript ones should always be grouped together. Borrow ideas from magazines, from television programs, from the homes of acquaintances, but above all, create compositions that give you pleasure.

Composition of potted plants is a collection of plants in pots placed close together to create the effect of a large patch of greenery (we all have this arrangement in our dressing rooms, you all thought about how to arrange them, tall plants in the back, lower ones in front, color scheme placed).

indoor garden is a container filled with several plants. The pots in this arrangement are not visible - they can be hidden from view inside the container or the plants can be planted directly in the container, without pots.

Composition in a bowl- this is one of the simplest types of indoor garden, to create which several decorative leaves and one or two flowering plants are taken out of pots and transplanted into peat soil. Traditionally in such a garden vertically - growing plants are planted in the back of the bowl, a few compact bushy plants in the middle, and climbing plant ahead.

miniature garden. special kind indoor garden are landscape compositions reproducing a real garden in miniature. Paths, ponds, various figures, houses are used for decoration. (It is good to make such compositions for children to compose stories and fairy tales in speech development classes).

We talked about what compositions are, suggestions on how to design them, and now look at what containers are suitable for us. We will need two types of containers - a planter and a container, because they have a wide surface diameter.

You can also use completely different types of containers for planting in order to decorate the room.

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Some houseplants seem to be made to grow in a group. Individually, they can look unattractive, but in a well-composed pot composition will look in their place.

For planting such indoor mini-gardens, large containers are used, picking them up under general style rooms. Various decorations and decorative figurines located between the plants in such compositions look quite interesting. You can even create a game version by turning a mini-garden into a full-fledged landscape in miniature.

Composing your own pot arrangement can be a great pleasure for you. To get started, you can use ready-made schemes, we will offer you in this article two examples of compositions from indoor plants.

Benefits of a potted garden

Aesthetics. A container with a composition of houseplants is able to enliven any room. It immediately attracts attention, creating a lively green "spot".

Convenience. Since plants are usually chosen for a pot composition that are similar in terms of living conditions, this simplifies watering and other activities for caring for the inhabitants of a mini-garden.

Practicality. Even a medium-sized composition of indoor plants can affect the air in the room - as you know, plants moisturize and purify it.

Composition of succulents

The most common indoor plant compositions are created on the basis of succulents. A mix of succulents looks very unusual - a sort of piece of the desert. The composition of succulents is easy to compile and care for - even beginners can handle it.

As a soil, use a mixture for succulents.

Indoor garden of plants with decorative foliage

The plants collected in this composition differ beautiful leaves. For planting, use a large clay pot.

All these plants tolerate shaded areas well.

Photo of plants used in potting arrangements

Rejuvenated (Sempervivum)	Agave (Agave)	Tradescantia sillamontana (Tradescantia sillamontana)	Coleus hybrid (Coleus x hybridus)
Adenium thick (Adenium obesum)	Dioscorea (Dioscorea)		Cryptanthus (Cryptantus)
Calibanus (Calibanus)

When the flowers are grouped, they attract more attention and make a more vivid impression than those that grow in separate pots.
Some houseplants in the background can be raised and then the height of the composition will look higher.
Many houseplants look unattractive when placed in freestanding pots. Such plants include those with small leaves- helksin, tradescantia, maidenhair and others. But placing these same houseplants next to large leafy ones, we get a completely different effect. They will emphasize the overall style of the composition, and they themselves will look more attractive.
Houseplants don't always look perfect. Sometimes the trunk may become bare or the foliage may become one-sided growth, some leaves may be damaged. When the plant is isolated, all these flaws are visible. In the composition, all the shortcomings of indoor plants can be successfully hidden.
Watering grouped houseplants will take much less time.
When houseplants are grouped, their abundant foliage and evaporation increase the humidity of the air. For some delicate plants, this is vital.
In addition, composing a composition of indoor plants for flower lovers can be a great pleasure. It is only necessary to remember one obligatory condition: Combining indoor plants in one composition is based on the principle of approximate requirements for illumination and air temperature.

Possible types of compositions from potted plants:

The usual composition of potted plants.

A place is determined where from 5 to 15 potted plants can be placed. Pots can be used both clay and plastic. Their shape and color should be the same, and uniform, so that the eye is not distracted by them.

The composition is arranged in the following order:

In the background are placed either plants with dark and large leaves, or higher in size. ornamental plants determine the shape of the composition, and blooms are added to highlight the accent in the composition. Sometimes you can make very beautiful composition not using flowering plants at all, grouping together only decorative ones, with different forms leaves and their shades.

Professional arrangement of potted plants.

Professional composition is very similar to normal composition, but it has a number of conditions that decorators use. These compositions are usually made in buildings. They are professional decorators. It is quite possible to make a reduced version yourself by placing such a composition in suitable place in an apartment or house.

For a professional composition, a pedestal with different levels is made or purchased. Plants are placed in pots that match the color of the pedestal. The shape of the cache-pot should be the same, but the dimensions, heights and thicknesses should be different.

For example, planters can be made in the form of cylinders of different heights and thicknesses. A larger and taller plant is usually placed in the background. For example, a palm tree. In the center, you should use one of ampelous plants, which will beautifully braid the vessel. Placed in the foreground flowering plant. As the flower fades, another flowering plant is installed in this place.

Composition - green window.

Light-loving plants, such as cacti or other succulents, are suitable for such a composition. Shelves made of transparent material are fixed on the window. Pots are placed on them, in which, as a rule, the same houseplants are placed.

It is worth noting that this composition of indoor plants has its drawbacks. Since the pots are placed in even rows, the composition looks too ordered. In addition, there are problems with the subsequent washing of the window. Nevertheless, some composition lovers consider the green window to be the most stylish and unique composition and go all the way in this sense - forcing the entire window, from top to bottom, with a green composition. Looks very nice!

Composition of indoor plants located on a pallet with pebbles.

This composition will be very relevant in rooms where central heating, plants that require high humidity. Take a pallet made of a material that is impermeable. The height of the pallet is about 4 cm. A layer of not large pebbles spills out to the bottom.

Then the pebbles are filled with water, in such a way that the lower ones are wet, but there should be no water on the surface. Pots with plants are placed on the stones. If you install such a pallet on a battery, then the air humidity around the plants will increase many times over. When watering, excess water will move to the pan and help humidify the air.

And do not forget to include money tree in the composition.

Collection of identical indoor plants.

The purpose of compiling such a composition is to emphasize the beauty and uniqueness of each plant belonging to one type. As a rule, collections are placed in places natural light. It can be both succulent (cacti, etc.) and more complex plants (ferns, flowers, etc.).

Vertical composition of indoor plants.

Vertical composition can be a good way out in rooms where there is a shortage of horizontal space.

For such a composition, either a corner stand or a stand with rings can be used, or baskets with pots can be hung one under the other. IN vertical composition usually one of the ampelous plants is always present, forming a column of leaves and flowers.

There are two ways to compose a composition of indoor plants: joint planting of plants in a common substrate and placing plants in a container in separate small pots, followed by decoration with pebbles, moss and other materials.

It is much easier to choose plants for the second option, soil mix they have a different one, you can water each one separately, only decorative features and lighting requirements matter.

Choosing plants for joint landing in one container, many criteria must be taken into account: requirements for light, heat, humidity and soil. These requirements must be the same for all plants, only then the composition will exist. long time and all plants will look healthy. A composition of desert cacti and swamp cyperus may look beautiful right after creation, but it will last a very short time.

The easiest way is to choose plants from the same genus or family for the container. Several aroids get along well together - with large variegated leaves, curly and showy.

It is easy to choose from a variety of species those that are combined in color or shape of the leaves. There are a huge number of saintpaulia hybrids with flowers of different colors and sizes.

But not all genera are so rich in species, and not all species of the same botanical genus grow in the same natural conditions.

Much more interesting compositions can be made from plants different types, but growing in natural conditions in the same places.

tropical plants

In the rainforests Central America and Asia high humidity, bright diffused light, in winter the temperature is not lower than 20-24 degrees, there are no sudden changes in temperature. Many common indoor plants are found here:

Creating a composition from tropical plants, very often imitate the landscape of an exotic forest. For decorative effect moss-covered snags are used, on which epiphytes and creepers are fixed. Apply stumps, stones, to create a composition on different levels. Definitely needed ground cover plants. The basic principle is a riot of tropical vegetation.

Subtropical plants

The subtropical microlandscape has common features- bright diffused lighting, humidity not lower than 60%, winter temperature 14-18 degrees. Subtropical plants are accustomed to the difference in day and night air temperatures, most of them need a dormant period. Requirements for soil acidity in subtropical plants are often different. This should also be taken into account when composing compositions.

Tree and shrub forms:, araucaria, camellia, cordilina, lantana, sheffler, fatsia, fuchsia, howea.

Herbaceous forms: clivia, oleander, saintpaulia, jacobinia.

Ampelous plants and creepers:, many types of begonias, bougainvillea, stonecrop, passionflower, thyroid pelargonium, many species, rhomboid cissus,.

Among the subtropical plants, there are many beautifully flowering ones. Compositions of such plants are often bright, multi-colored. use decorative elements, colorful pebbles.

desert plants

The desert landscape in the compositions is very popular. Such a composition is easy to create, since there is big choice variety of cacti and succulents. And since most of them grow slowly, which is important in this case, care for such a composition is minimal.

For lovers of indoor plants who are tired of the monotony, there is a variety option. indoor gardens is a combination of beauty, originality, fantasy. This article reveals the basic principles for the selection of plants, depending on their location. Ideas for creating mini-compositions are described, plant species that grow well in the proposed containers are proposed.

Plant selection principles

Given the basic rules of phytodesign, we can distinguish the following criteria for the selection of plants:

The size of indoor plants should match the size of the room. If the room is large, then small flowers will not be noticeable, and in a small room, large flowers and pots will further reduce the visual space.
When choosing a pot, you need to know what composition will be placed in it. If the pot does not match the number of plants, then the results will be disastrous. With excessive space, some types of plants may die, while others will spread into ugly forms. But in cramped quarters - a fight for survival will begin, the strongest will win.
In the far corner of the container, when forming the composition, you need to put the plants higher, in the foreground - lower, weaving plants or ampelous.
When buying plants, you need to inspect them and make sure that they are healthy: no damaged root system, no strange formations and damage on the leaves.
When compiling a composition, you need to know the conditions for keeping all plants. You can not combine plants that love the sun, and shade-loving. Also, it is worth considering the temperature regime, the selected colors, the relationship to moisture. If this is not taken into account, they will not get along together.
When combining plants with a large root system and a small one, it is better to put flowers in a large pot in their respective pots, and cover with a ball of turf, moss or peat on top. And if desired, change one color for another.

miniature gardens

These funny little compositions will dispel sadness and tension just by looking at them. Many options with different small plants have been invented to create indoor mini-gardens:

Gardens in cups. These little masterpieces are made according to general principle planting plants. You need to pick up flowers undersized, miniature. Suitable for such compositions: Fittonia, Spathiphyllum Wallis, miniature phalinopsis, asparagus, pressed pilea, saline, confused Muhlenbeckia, legless selaginella.

Original miniature composition in a cup

Mini garden in a cup fabulous decor

Mini garden in a cup

Gardens in stones. Compositions of plants that are planted in stones instead of pots look unusual and original. Suitable for such purposes rocks stones in which there are many pores, they are airy and light. You can take limestone, sandstone. These stones are relatively easy to give desired shape. To plant plants in them, you need to drill or gouge a recess (or several) inside, fill in the substrate and plant the plants. That's all. You can put it on a table, window sill, shelf - wherever you want, if only the plants feel good. That's just the plants must be selected correctly - not everyone will grow in such an unusual pot. If the stone is not large, the recesses are small, then they will do: young, stonecrop, lithops. Small cacti and saxifrage will also work. And if the sizes are a little larger, then you can take cyclamen, kotula, gerbil and the same succulents.

Orchards in bottles (glasses). These small compositions in a small glass container are perfect for the kitchen, living room or office. It is not difficult to make such compositions, except that it is inconvenient to place plants in a bottle. For such gardens, flowers are selected that grow slowly, do not require much care, do not need frequent watering and irrigation. Do not forget about the drainage layer - it is required. Such plants are suitable: undersized, dwarf succulents and cacti, miniature violets, mosses, dwarf ferns, fittonia, soleirolia, legless selaginella.

Shell gardens. Such small compositions touch with their simplicity and diminutiveness. Looks great on several pieces at once. Shell sizes may vary. Plants are planted with a small root system, slowly growing. You can take curly or ampel, then the compositions can be hung near the window. Such flowers are suitable: stonecrop, saline, young dwarf, mühlenbeckia, legless selaginella.

flower composition shells

In addition to these miniature gardens, you can decorate compositions in an original way by using some natural materials in the form of pots.

For these purposes, suitable coconut shell, without pulp. Make several drainage holes, fill in the necessary soil mixture, plant a flower or composition. This flowerpot looks good both on the windowsill and hanging. You can plant different flowers, guided by the size of the pot and the needs of the flower itself. Orchids feel good in such flowerpots.

Hanging pot from coconut

Making such pots from stumps will take time, because you need to hollow out a decent recess inside, make drainage holes. But the result will be great: by combining the number of flowerpot stumps or the number of plants in one stump, you can get original and environmentally friendly compositions.

Flower arrangement in a stump

Thus, creating flower gardens, you can dispel everyday melancholy and monotony. A large number of proposed options will help to realize original ideas into beautiful compositions.