Create your own tabletop outdoors experience with our helpful tips.
Use these dish garden ideas as inspiration to create your owntiny tabletop scenes.
Cactus Dish Garden
Create your own tiny desert indoors with thiscactus dish gardendesign.
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Bonsai Dish Garden
A bonsaificus treeadds height and immediately grabs your attention in this easy dish garden.
To enhance the landscape effect, surround the ficus withspike mossto mimic grass.
When using shallow containers, mound the soil a few inches above the rim to give roots more room.
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Then, double-check toadd water slowlyso it doesn’t just run off over the sides.
Leave a little room between them and add a thin layer of fine gravel to complete the look.
Give each plant a few teaspoons ofwater every few weeksright around their base to keep them happy.
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Then, group them together to create a unique tropical garden.
Springy Tabletop Garden
Spring arrives early with this pretty tabletop garden.
It combines a graceful dwarf weepingwillowtree with a selection of smallspring-flowering bulbsand annuals to create a colorful ephemeral display.
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Other succulent spiller options for your dish include burro’s tail orstring of pearls.
Mini Moss Garden
A collection of moss creates a serene, green scene in this dish garden.
A shallow dish will work well for mosses because they don’t need much soil to thrive.
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Keep mosses looking fresh by misting them with water daily.
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