Rust bowls are not only very attractive in a vintage garden. Stone landscapes in rust bowls are particularly popular. Find out below how to create a mini stone landscape step by step and how else you can plant your rust bowl.

Old fire bowls are also ideal for planting

The rock garden in the rust bowl

Rust bowls are almost predestined for stone landscapes. For the mini stone landscape you need:

  • potsherd or drainage fleece
  • loose garden soil
  • sand
  • Natural stones of different sizes
  • roots or beautiful branches
  • succulents or cacti
  • possibly mini grasses
  • pebbles

1. The drainage

If your grate tray is to stand outdoors, it needs a water drain in the floor, with larger grate trays it is better to have several. If this is not the case, you should grab a metal drill and drill fingernail-sized holes.
Cover the drains with potsherds or drainage fleece to prevent clogging.
If your grid tray is to stand inside, you can do without the drainage holes. But then water carefully.

2. Fill with soil and plant

Now fill the grating tray with soil to just below the edge and press small depressions in the places where the succulents want to be planted. Plant your succulents and gently press down the soil around the plants. If you have mini grasses on hand, put a seedling or two in the bowl. When buying plants, make sure that you buy grasses with a very low water requirement, otherwise they will die alongside the more drought-loving succulents.

3. Decorate

Now you can get creative: Distribute stones, wood and other decorative elements such as rustic clay figures in the bowl as you wish. But don't overcrowd them!

4. The conclusion

Finally, cover the soil with pebbles.

Other planting ideas for rust trays

If you have a larger grate bowl, you can combine plants of different sizes with stones. A larger ornamental grass in the middle, a few flowering, lower perennials around it and small cushion plants at the edge look particularly beautiful. In between you can skillfully place a beautiful stone or a root. Cover the soil decoratively with pebbles, moss or mulch (€239.00). A combination of pebbles and mulch is also conceivable, which allows a beautiful play of colors of brown and white.
Climbing plants also do well in the grate tray, especially if you let them hang down from a hill.

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