Dish Garden

Turn of Century Pottery & Garden

Dish Garden

To create your own dish garden

Choose plants that require similar growing conditions. As you see, we like to use herbs or succulents. It’s best not to use overgrown specimens, instead choose young plants (starters) .You’ll need some thing that looks like a tree, a bush and grass.

Choose a dish, a terra-cotta garden bowl of whatever size you like.

Fill your dish with potting soil and mark your landscape design.

Remember, you are creating an illusion of a bigger place then it actually is.

The rules are simple - bigger up front, smaller in the back.

Use Parsley to create a palm tree, pinching lower leafs developes a trunk.

Herb gardens fun to grow, remember - pinch, pinch, pinch - that's what herbs are for, and they are easy to replace. Most herbs prefer sunny location, water thoroughly and let dry.

To create a garden path, use pebbles or pieces of broken pots. Make sure that they are getting smaller as the path progresses as well as the path it self should gradually narrow down. Don't try to make a straight line, a winding path creates an illusion of a larger space.

To set your path "stones" dig a channel just deep enough to line it with small river rock and place "stones" using adhesive for concrete. (All the material you can find in any hardware store)

The same rules apply to a river.

Plant Material

To simulate grass use low growing small leaffed plants like Corsican mint or Elfin thyme...

For bush or vine like plant use Oregano, Lime thyme, lemon thyme...

Rosemary or Sage, make great trees.

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