How to make a terrarium plants at home?
What is a terrarium?
Basically, this is a place intended for terrestrial animals (lizards), with plants in the ... But since blabla, the tendency is to create a terrarium dedicated solely to plants. The advantage is then able to grow carnivorous plants at home and other tropical plants and exotic, mosses, ferns ... it is difficult to grow out of a hot and humid.
With what can we do a terrarium?
One can of course buy a glass terrarium ready, but relatively expensive. We can then simply reuse an old aquarium. It remains only to determine where to put it: preferably before a bright window, regardless of the room, because the tropical green plants accommodate themselves easily in the average temperature of an interior (20-25 ° C) .
What to plant in a terrarium?
Go for originality: you can grow plants carnivorous tropical suspended polls, called Nepenthes, carnivorous plants, or to glue called Drosera. It can hang or ask girls air (Tillandsia). These are plants without roots, to be sprayed manually, very original forms.
How to recreate a natural environment in the terrarium?
To recreate a suitable medium, we need to create a pool of water at the bottom, consisting of ball clay on which we put a felt geotextile (aka aquanappe). Then we have the soil in which plants will be planted. For carnivorous plants, you must obtain a suitable mixture consisting of peat moss or Chile, mixed with drainage elements such as perlite, so that the ground is still waterlogged. Here are the steps step by step in pictures: Make a terrarium.
Some fans are quick to create a complete mixing tropical plants, water and animals! This is called a paludarium.
Anything is possible, all you need is imagination, and a little place ...