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Unpacking Your Plant When your plant arrives unpack it immediately. If you have purchased a non-bulbous plant give the plant a 20-60 minute soak in water. If you have purchased the bulbous variety, such as Caput Medusa, Bulbosa, and Bailey, give it a liberal spray instead.  Watering Ideally water your plant with collected rain water. If this isn't possible, day old tap water will do just fine. The chlorine that is present in tap water needs to dissipate before watering your plants with it. Try and spray your air plants once a week, or give a soak every 1-2 weeks. After soaking...

What plants to use, where to place them, and how to look after them - everything you need to know about terrarium plants!

Even the best of love and care, tradescantias will unfortunately start to get leggy and brown after a year or two. Worry not though, as they're super easy to propagate! There are 3 things you can do with your cuttings and turn your aging plant into dozens of beautiful, new plant babies.  1. Plant Cut a stem, place it in soil, and keep moist. New growth should start to appear within a couple of weeks. 2. Place in Water Cut a stem and place in water. Once you'e got some good roots go ahead and plant it up. 3. Lay on Soil...

Genus Tradescantia Popular Varieties    Nanouk Purple Heart Purple Flame Albiflora Zebrina Soil Normal potting mix - wet, but well drained Light Bright, indirect light to promite bright colours Water Regularly - keep soil moist. Mist leaves too.   Appearance Tradescantia Purple Heart Tradescantias come in the most beautful array of colours, making them a very popular choice for house plants and terrariums alike. I mainly work with 2 different types of tradescantia; compact varities with just a few stems such as the purple heart, purple flame, and nanouks; and crawling vine varities like albiflora and zebrina. The compact varities...

Genus Pilea Popular Varieties  Chinese Money Plant (Pilea pereromioides) Depressed Clearweed (Pilea depressa) Greysy (Pilea glauca) Friendship Plant (Pilea Involucrata) Aluminum Plamt (Pilea cadierei) Silver Tree (Pilea spruceana) Pilea pinokkio  Soil Well draining, tropical mix, with peat moss or coco fibre Light Bright, indirect light Water When soil is dry I love pilea plants. They're plentiful in variety, suitable for terrariums, and make cracking houseplants.   Appearance Mini Chinese Money Plant From miniature, button-leaved crawlers to the large, valleyed leaves of the friendship plant, pilea come in all sorts of different forms. The most commonly knowly pilea is the Chinese...

A complete list (with photos) of the best and most colourfuul plants for terrariums.