When it comes to Ficus, you might think of a green giant in your living room, but there are also smaller specimens. You can easily use these to create an indoor forest, complete with a couple of rugged lumberjacks. A dish like this fits perfectly into the new interiors trend in which fun green elements provide the highlights, and brings a more original slant to indoor gardening. It also works very well to cure the ‘bare trees outside’ blues.
How to make it:
1
Paint the dish and leave it to dry thoroughly. Then fill the bowl with potting soil and plant the ficuses in it: these are the trees in your mini forest.
2
Scatter the small plants amongst the ficuses as miniature shrubs.
3
Smash the terracotta pots and use the pieces to create a path amongst the plants. Finally place the figures in the forest.
