this terrarium was made by danijela botaster of walden plants and in this week's video
i'm going to show you how i made my own version of it if you want to follow along then this is
what you'll need a glass container a lid i'm using an acrylic one from simply plastics
fittonia plants and terrarium soil i start by adding the soil into the glass container
now i've been using this grow tropical soil for a while now and it's a great medium if you want 10%
off your next order then use code terrariumben at the checkout as usual i arrange the soil so
it's higher at the back and lower at the front it's quite dry so i water it in using a spray
bottle filled with filtered water notice how the colour changes as the water runs through the soil
the soil is now at a near optimum level of moisture so i have lots of different
fittonias here and what i'm going to be doing is mainly using rootless cuttings in my experience
whenever i've used fittonias and i've just divided plants they've never ever done well so i'm going
to give rootless cuttings to go because that's worked so well for me in the past taking cuttings
is easy single out a stem and cut just above a set of leaves this is what you'll end up with
okay so here's my haul of fittonia cuttings you know they really are quite stunning plants with
that colorful vein going through them i also found this strange random fern which was growing
in the middle of the fittonia so i'm going to put that in there too
this really couldn't be simpler all i'm going to do is poke
cuttings into the soil so they're up to the first set of leaves so i might remove those
two there but i'll plant it in so it's right up to the first set of leaves just like this
you know i make a lot of terrariums and use cuttings whenever i can which
is pretty much all of the time unless i'm using ferns i'm so confident that
they'll take in the humid environment that i'll bet you none of these cuttings fail
and these nice smaller ones
focus i will plant at the front just because i think the
smaller level ones will look nicer at the front i don't know what it is about smaller leaf terrarium
plants but they need to be very popular and then larger cuttings i'll place at the back
this is akadama you don't have to do this but i noticed on danijela's terraria she
had a nice layer of gravel going around the outside so i am going to do that
rather than covering the whole of the surface with
you know expensive akadama i'm just going to go around the side
right time to get the rest of these cuttings in i carefully place each one into the gritty
terrarium soil until the first set of leaves comes into contact with the soil surface
i want to keep the colours as separate as possible so i don't have
large blocks of the same colour in one area daniela's terrarium
has a nice contrast throughout the whole planting area and i want to replicate that
i noticed that there were some gaps on the edges so
i took some more smaller cuttings and dotted these around the sides
the akadama looks quite bright at the moment but once it's wet it will darken
and here is that random fern that i found i'm guessing it'll grow quite big
so i stick it at the back just off centre
it's looking very colorful so it's also looking very freshly planted and something i noticed
with danijela's is that it's a few months old i believe so once the fittonias grow then it's going
to look more full and more natural well perhaps not natural because when do you ever see this
color scheme in nature but it's going to look more full so and there we go i'll water the cuttings
in and the terrarium will be complete once the cuttings are watered in i wipe the sides down
i think it's important to do this regularly as it prevents stains from appearing on the glass
man just check out those colours i'll be the first to admit that i dislike a terrarium
with a random brightly coloured fittonia sticking out like a sore thumb but there is
something about terrarium exclusively planted with fittonias that's actually quite charming
so this is my super colorful fittonia terrarium and if you've made one i would love to see it send
me an email or tag me on instagram under worcester terrariums if you would like to discuss this
or any other topic further then i would like to personally invite you to join my beginner friendly
facebook discussion group it's called terrarium group and the link is in the description below
i think we're on like nearly 4 000 members now it's a very active community and i would love
to have you with us as always thank you very much for watching and i will see you in the next video