Interior Styling Workshop, Wimbledon
We would like to introduce our MK Workshops in March 2016 in South Wimbledon which will help you to improve your home with professional advice and interactive activities.
To celebrate the impending arrival of warmer temperatures, we recently hosted a home styling workshop with a botanical twist.
Throughout the workshop, Our participants created their own little terrariums with beautiful plants and decoration, instructed by floral artist Vanessa Birley. I complimented the project with great interior design ideas and advice on how to simply style up your home. At the end of the styling workshop, everybody left with a mind full of inspiration, along with their own self-made eco-system. Here are some of our favourites below …
This mini open-air tabletop garden is a fun and easy way to add a little greenery to any indoor space. All the supplies are available at your local garden store and it only takes 20 minutes to create.
Follow These Steps
- Start with a medium-sized, clear glass open-top container. You can use anything that strikes your fancy—a vase, a cleaned-out pasta jar, a fish bowl, or a special terrarium bowl.
- Fill the bottom of the vessel with a 1 1/2-inch layer of small rocks to collect the water drainage.
- Add a layer of potting soil made for succulents and cacti. It should be deepenough for the plants to root to, about 2 1/2 inches.
- Remove the largest plant from its container and dust excess soil off the roots. Using the end of a spoon, make a hole in the soil big enough for the roots and nestle the plant inside, tamping the soil down firmly to hold it in place. Plan for approximately 1 plant per inch of container diameter.Tip: Use a paper towel to transplant prickly cacti to avoid pricking your fingers.
- Continue planting the rest of the succulents, working from largest to smallest. It’s easiest to start at the back of the container and work your way forward.Tip: Play around with the arrangement—mixing up the types of plants, colors, and sizes to make it more visually pleasing.
- Once the plants are arranged, add about a 1/4-inch layer of white sand around the plants.
- Finish with some landscaping. Place a few additional pebbles here and there to complete the look.Tip: Succulents like direct sunlight every day. Lightly water the base every two weeks or once the soil dries out.
Thanks to the very talented William Walsh for his fantastic film.
