Houseplants

Regular followers will know I have a bit of a thing about orchids.  I was given a few recently that had been nibbled by snails after removal men had put them in the garden of a friend's new home instead of inside.  I had washed the plants and the roots and repotted them in fresh orchid compost to eradicate any snail offspring that may have been hiding.

All but one responded well and produced flower spikes.  A couple of the spikes became spindly and had to be removed.  Each plant has produced a new leaf, and eventually as the lower leaves die, the nibbled leaves will be just a memory.

Last year, Bumblebee was gifted a couple of terrariums but it's taken us quite a while to source the substrate locally.  Yesterday we visited a garden centre in the suburbs on the opposite side of the city.  It was in a more affluent area, which was reflected in the prices, but we found what we needed.

Bumblebee and TMTC each planted a terrarium, with a layer of washed gravel, charcoal, a specialist compost and topped off with white gravel.

We had bought 3 tiny plants for each terrarium but one had to be thinned to fit, one had to be trimmed and one just couldn't fit and look nice so they've been potted on and the third plant was replaced with baby Groot. 

It's the first time we've tried this style of gardening so fingers crossed!