After a summer stroll by the sea or rivers often bring home many beautiful stones and pebbles, seashells, sand, pieces of bark, beautiful driftwood and roots. To all this is not pylilos in the closet, make a composition of decorative glass vase in the soil. Instead of a vase you can take a bottle of unusual shape or a large glass - the main thing that the vessel was of a colorless material.
To begin, divide the sand into several fractions using sieves with different apertures. For formulating collect sand and pebbles multiple colors, e.g., white, brown, cream, gray. If this is not possible, to try to paint the dry compositions of the sandy soil dye or simply mix the sand with a powder of finely grated slate colored pencils.
The proportions in the mixture pick empirically. Now you can fill the tank. Particularly impressive look combination of soils of different colors and shades, arranged in horizontal layers. In a bottle with a narrow neck sand and small stones poured through the funnel. If the capacity is slightly tilted in one direction and then the other, poured layers of soil distributed more naturally.
Another suitable material for filling a transparent container - various cereals, grains and seeds (millet and millet, buckwheat, lentils, beans, peas, poppy, corn, etc.).
More complicated to execute the composition in water. Colored crystal soil can be bought at a flower shop or make your own using indelibly. On the bottom of large glass or transparent pour vases decorative ground in one or more layers on top of beautiful lay stones, shells, corals.
It is better to use all of blue, purple and green shades of the soil, combined with pieces of amber, white and pink stones and sea shells.
Water is poured carefully so as not to erode the soil. Mineral soil - indispensable for hydroponic inert material (without addition of the soil) of growing plants. Transparent glass container filled to the brim with soil. For mini-desert landscape is better to choose the cacti, sedum and stonecrops.
Beautiful stones, roots of trees and other natural materials will help to make a mini-landscape more expressive. Plants do not require special care - in the spring and summer you can spend feeding of a weak solution of fertilizer. The composition of cacti and other succulents is positioned near the window, since these plants do not tolerate shade.
