A selection of plants and design tips

What you need for a pot rock garden

Plant bowls or pots that should be as flat as possible and have a drainage hole at the bottom are particularly suitable. This is immensely important for the drainage so that your rock garden does not get caught in rain or rain at some point. Irrigation water drowns. You will also need:

• a suitable one Substrate for rock garden plants (e.g. B. Herbal soil or a mixture of Potting soil and sand)
• Expanded clay(€ 16.35 at Amazon *) for drainage
• stones and pebbles in various sizes to match the pot
• rock garden plants that stay small

Which plants are suitable for the mini rock garden?

All plants that are not too big are suitable for the mini rock garden in the tub. Which exactly these are is entirely up to your imagination and the available space. But here we have a few suggestions for you:

• Houseleek (Sempervivum)
• smaller outdoor cacti
• Sedum plant (Sedum)
• Blue pillows (Aubrieta)
• Candytuft (Iberis)
• Ice plant (Aizoaceae)
• Cyclamen (Cyclamen)
• Cranesbill (Geranium)
• Edelweiss (Leontopodium)
• Balloon flower (Platycodon)
• Primrose (primula)
• different Herbs like thyme, rosemary, sage or lavender

However, not all plants are suitable for every location. Many rock garden plants prefer sun. However, there are also species that can be found in the Penumbra or even the shade feel more comfortable.

This is how you create the rock garden in the bucket - step by step

Do you have all the necessary utensils together? Then you can now start designing and planting the planter.

• Cover the drain hole in the pot with a pottery shard or flat stone.
• Now pour in a few centimeters of expanded clay - this applies to drainage.
• This is followed by some suitable substrate, but only a little
• because now you can use the selected rock garden plants
• and fill it all around with earth.
• Press the plants well.
• And water them well.
• Finally, cover the surface of the earth with stones or pebbles.

Of course, you can also create a mini rock landscape in a correspondingly large pot instead, for which you need natural stones in the appropriate size. You should leave the joints between the individual stones large enough for the dwarf perennials to fit comfortably into them.