The rock garden in the grate bowl
Grate bowls are predestined for stone landscapes. For the mini stone landscape you will need:
- Pottery shard or drainage fleece
- loose garden soil
- sand
- Natural stones of various sizes
- Roots or beautiful branches
- Succulents or cacti
- possibly mini grasses
- Pebbles
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1. The drainage
If you want your grate pan to stand outdoors, it needs a drain in the floor, with larger grate pans it is better to have several. If this is not the case, you should grab a metal drill and drill holes the size of a fingernail.
Cover the drains with upward curved pottery shards or Drainage fleece to prevent constipation.
If you want your grate pan to be inside, you can do without the drainage holes. But then water carefully.
2. Fill with soil and plant
Now fill the grate bowl with soil to just below the edge and press small hollows where the succulents want to be placed. Plant your succulents and gently press the soil around the plants. If you have mini-grasses on hand, put a plant or two in the tray. When buying plants, make sure that you buy grasses with a very low water requirement, otherwise they will perish alongside the more drought-loving succulents.
3. Decorate
Now you can get creative: distribute stones, woods and other decorative elements such as rustic clay figures in the bowl as you like. But don't fill them too full!
4. The conclusion
Lastly, cover the earth with pebbles.
Other planting ideas for grate pans
If you have a larger grate bowl, you can combine plants of different sizes with stones. A larger ornamental grass in the middle, a few flowering, lower perennials around and small cushion plants on the edge look particularly beautiful. In between you can skillfully place a beautiful stone or a root. Cover the earth decoratively with pebbles, or moss Mulch(€ 239.00 at Amazon *) away. A combination of pebbles and mulch is also conceivable, which allows a beautiful play of brown and white colors.
Climbing plants also look great in the grate bowl, especially if you let them hang down from a hill.
