How to Make a Hanging Orchid Planter
Use a streamlined sphere planter to create a dynamic hanging basket for orchids. This easy project can be done in under an hour.
Use a streamlined sphere planter to create a dynamic hanging basket for orchids. This easy project can be done in under an hour.
Display gorgeous orchids in a mod metal planter filled with soft moss and groundcover. This arrangement uses chartreuse sedum and Spanish moss for high-contrast against colorful orchid blooms. With the right materials, this project is super simple and ends up looking sleek.
Fill bottom of planter with Spanish moss, pressing the moss to the sides and leaving a hole in the center. This will result in a bowl-like shape.
Your orchid can last for years if you know how to properly care for it.
Soak sphagnum moss well in a container for at least 30 seconds. Then, slightly wring out excess water and put the wet sphagnum moss in the center of the Spanish moss.
Add a little flavor to your table with this easy-to-do moss garden! This project will bring the outdoors inside with rocks, plants, and some moss to finish it off.
Leaving orchids in their nursery pots, tuck them within the sphagnum moss so they are held in place and covered with it.
Add a 1 inch layer of potting soil on top of the sphagnum moss.
Plant sedum in the top layer of soil, arranging it around the orchids. Try to cover as much of the exposed dirt with the sedum plants to create a dense groundcover.
Whether they're low and sleek or tall and blousy, groundcover plants do just what they say they will. Dependable and hardworking, these plants solve many landscape problems.
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