Herself's Houseplants

Florescence Elements flower show

At the Houston Florescence show this year small was in, small landscapes, small water gardens, and wreath shaped dish gardens.

( photos of the more traditional arrangements are Herself’s Houston Garden, Florescence photos

I saw a request for which types of plants are good for dish gardens recently. First decide if you wish to do a dry desert type dish garden or a tropical garden. Traditional dish gardens do not have drainage in the container. I usually provide some in mine.

Here are some commonly used dish garden plants that have worked well for many.

Wet:
Carnivorous plants
African Violets
Pothos
Podocarpus
Pittosporum
Pepperomia
Syngonium
Bromeliad
Croton
Pteris fern
Creeping Fig
Neanthe Bella palm

Dry:
Jade
Crassula
Kalanchoe
Sedum
Pilosocereus
Haworthia
Aloe
Cleistocactus
Sansevieria
Echeveria
Lithops
Graptopetalum

But the best thing to do is visit a nursery or two, look for small plants with similar growing needs.

See also on this site:
Dish gardens in stainless steel bowls
More dish garden ideas, wire frame holders

This is another cool way to do a dish garden I saw at the Houston Garden Show. These are your typical wire hanging baskets. They have been lined with screen. The same stuff you purchase at the hardware store to repair broken window screens.

They are much more modern looking than traditional dish gardens. You could hang these ones also on a very long hanger so that the garden would be below eye level if you wanted something unusual in a kitchen or bath.

The top dish garden has small plants inside the glass balls as well as outside of them.

I went to visit the Houston Garden Club Florescence Show “Cosmos” a few weeks back. As always I come away with more projects I’d like to do than I ever have the time to dig into.

I thought this was a neat way to do a dish garden. It is a much cleaner, more modern look for a dish garden. You can easily drill some holes in the bottom of an old stainless bowl you have around the house and turn it into a dish garden.

Some were so full you couldn’t see and of the soil, others were more sparse in their presentations. What a neat look for a small kitchen garden. I’m thinking one full of herbs would be especially nice in a kitchen.