Dress up your greens

Dress up your greens

With the concrete invasion gobbling up the greenery in our cityscape, having a spacious veranda or an individual garden is a luxury in this age of apartment living. It is more important now than ever to incorporate some plants into our home décor, if we want to maintain that link with nature, and to refresh our surroundings. Last week, we talked about the beauty and flexibility of greenery in interior décor. This week, we show you how to display your potted plants.

Choosing good containers is vitally important. A collection of square, round and rectangular containers in different materials is a great starting point. Rough-textured pots in materials such as concrete look wonderful with succulent plants, and suggest a sort of dry, rough landscape. Different materials create different moods. Concrete and metal look urban and edgy, terracotta and ceramic more earthy and calm. Baskets and plastic pot or cane with clay pots have a more traditional look.

There are various types of clay pots available in the market and they come in various shapes and sizes. We select the pots according to the plant size, because some are small at the beginning but they soon grow to a great size. Some plants are man height; they are ideal for large tubs of twelve inches or higher. Ten or eight-inch tubs are perfect for medium size plants, such as aralia, pump, fichus or bamboo plants.

The market has an abundance of decorative clay pots. Some are floral printed, some may be glossy, others may be round, bucket or bowl-shaped. These types of pots are pretty durable, lasting up to thirty years or more.

These days we tend to go for frequent interior makeovers, particularly on festive occasions. Modifying your plant accessories, or changing their layout is a quick and easy way to do so. You can simply change their containers, add plates under the pots, or place the buckets on trays. You don't even have to use actual pots. Ceramic teapots, kettles, serving dishes and other utensils can easily double as quirky plant pots. You can also play with colour, or add stone chips to add an extra design dimension.

The pot is a basic item but there are some more tools and accessories essential for indoor gardening. One of the most important items in your indoor gardening are gloves, especially for handling prickly cacti. It is nice to have a pair specifically for working indoors on your potted plants.

You can use old kitchen spoons and forks for digging in a small pot, but miniature trowels and forks have greater aesthetic appeal. A watering can with a long spout is useful for gardening, but if you have one of those old-fashioned silver mini watering cans or small buckets for your indoor garden, they add an element of fun.

Finally, there are tiny accessories that you can use as a sort of garnishing to top off your plants with. There are many options, such as silver pellets, green moss, white pebbles, dried starfish, dried leaves, black pebbles, crushed shells, dead snails, buttons and stone. Sometimes we use some plastic animal figure, such as birds, butterflies, starfish etc.

In the end, mix and match to create a look that best expresses your personal tastes and your space will always look fresh and pretty.

By Nazneen Haque Mimi
Interior Consultant
Journeyman
For details, contact: journeym@citechco.net

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