Three design options for your dish garden DISH GARDENS STEP BY STEP: Proper care & maintenance Tutorial Videos Americans became fascinated with all things Japanese after the opening of the Japanese exhibit and pavilion at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. A minor mania in dish gardens (Hachi-Niwa) was a part of this trend, as travelers brought home these tiny landscapes from Japan or had them made once they returned. Japanese landscape gardeners were accustomed to providing dish gardens as scale models of their proposed garden plans for their wealthy clients. back JAPANESE GARDEN TRADITIONAL JAPANESE DISH GARDEN Back
ENGLISH DISH GARDEN ENGLISH DISH GARDEN Fairy Dish Garden Fairy Dish Garden DISH GARDENS STEP BY STEP: Choose your dish
back Gather your materials.
Arrange your design.
Prepare the dish.
Layer your base materials.
Add plants, landscape elements, and adornments.
back Proper Care:
Remember to rotate your dish garden regularly. Supplemental light can be used for dish gardens, such as under-the-cabinet LED lights.
Fertilizing should be minimal due to the confines of the container, except for flowering plants. As the dish garden ages it will be more critical to fertilize.
Tend your dish garden as you would a full-size garden: back INSECT PEST Aphids
THRIPS
Mealy bugs
Insecticidal Soap *The plants we use for house plants are subject to the same insect and disease pests as any other plants. *A healthy plant will resist insects & diseases better than a stressed plant