More and more of us are spending time at our home work desks…lets bring in some nature
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Easy Plants
terrarium
Easy Plants
Plants that want to live
Its great having these little guys on your office desk
Succulents - Bunnings Australia
So easy to look after when you sit next to them everyday. They smell amazing!!!
Peace lily - Bunnings Australia
Visiting a bonsai nursery like this feels like you are living in a Ghibli movie. Keeping a low maintenance bonsai on your desk makes the workspace a little bit more livable.
HP Succulents & Bonsai
If you like your plants and live in Sydney take a look at what this nursey is growing.
INDOOR PLANTS & FLOWERS - Sydney's Plant Market
Fuchsia flower plants can be so easy to look after when you look at them every day. Watch them bloom and breathe in the sweetness from them.
Fuchsia
Amaryllis - once you hear the love story that grows with these flowers its hard to forget. They need little care but you will pick up on what they need quite quickly.
Amaryllis
The venus flytrap has to be one of the most interesting plants to own. Spray with water from a squirt bottle and feed it bugs you find in the house. Sometimes I stop to look at it and wonder how nature came up with such a thing.
Venus flytrap
terrarium
Any glass bowl can be a terrarium bowl. But the only rule is the glass rim has to come up to a reasonable height to shield the plant inside. Look for depth and a size that wont make moving a small forest around too heavy.
Glass Dining Bowls - Bed Bath & Beyond
There are many many ornaments you can buy from Chinese sites but there is something special about getting a piece that's made with love. We wish we owned a kiln so that we could try make some of these quirky pieces for our tiny desk gardens.
Small Garden Ornaments - Etsy
It can be hard to grow moss but looking after it is very easy. Once you have a patch keep it going strong by spraying with water everyday. Its really hard to start again when it has dried up. Have a look for moss at plant nurseries that sell a lot of...
Moss
Go for a walk near a lake you and you might be lucky in finding a bit of driftwood with moss on it. These pieces look awesome in terrariums but monitor the wood outside in a shady spot for a while to make sure there's no bugs like centipedes living o...
Driftwood
Any color you like with full bowl coverage or just a little patch in the middle. Pebbles are perfect for terrariums. If you are going for A more aqua theme the plants roots will grow in-between the gaps of the stones.