If you love plants but feel despair as to how you can have a garden in flats in Kannur, don’t worry. We have a number of tips and ideas for beginners, and you can take inspiration from them to create your own green haven in your apartment.

Terrariums

Terrariums are great DIY projects and make a beautiful addition to any home. As a miniature indoor garden, a terrarium is just perfect for apartments. What you need to make this:

• A tall glass container or geometric shaped ones that can be bought online
• Small plants like ferns and succulents
• Sheet moss (you can scrape it off outdoor walls or bricks)
• Dried moss
• Gravel
• Activated carbon
• Potting soil
• Decorative pebbles
• Small, flat pieces of granite or other stone
• Miniature animal figurines 

Clean the container thoroughly and arrange the different layers: gravel or sand at the bottom, followed by pebbles, charcoal, dried moss, potting soil, and bits of sheet moss here and there. Then arrange your plants and use your artistry to place stone pieces to create a landscape. You can make a pathway or even steps with the small flat stones. Arrange animal figurines or a miniature Buddha for a lifelike aesthetic.

If you don’t want to go to all the trouble of collecting each item, but still want this, simply order a kit online, and arrange it. Place it in the living room or bedroom, and feast your eyes on it! These are very easy to maintain, and are guaranteed to attract attention.

Window Sill Plants

This is one of the easiest tips and ideas for beginners where apartment gardening is concerned. You can have small plants, either flowering or nonflowering, and place them in colourful planters. Choose the size according to your window sill; ensure that it’s a window that receives adequate sunlight. Money plants, pothos, spider plants, jasmine, adenium, and golden gem are good for the purpose.

If you like creepers, you can hang planters on the ceiling near the window with a few creepers like cat’s claw or cypress vine. 

Vertical Gardens

Reputed builders in Kannur ensure that apartments are well laid out, letting you decorate it as you want. Vertical gardens are great for flats; you can have them in balconies, or even in your living room on a smaller scale. 

You can choose low maintenance plants. You can randomly place planters on the walls, or have a metal stand with small receptacles for holding the planters or with trays for the plants. Small sized plants, creepers, and succulents are ideal for vertical gardens.

As these don’t take up precious floor space and are relatively easy to set up and maintain, it is one of the best  tips and ideas for beginners for apartment gardens.

You can also set up a wooden trellis, some ropes, or even just jute strings for vertical support for your plants.

Indoor Herb Gardens

There are several herbs you can grow indoors, even if you’re a newbie gardener. Mint, tulsi, and coriander are examples. Mint spreads rapidly, so choose wide containers for it. Place the containers close to windows that receive ample sunlight, water them regularly, and add fertilizer. You can just buy the fertilizer sticks and simply place them in the soil next to the root.

Not only do you get purer air and a vibrant dash of green, but you also get lovely fresh herbs for your kitchen.

Bonsai Plants

The growth of luxury flats has ensured that flats are more spacious than before. Of course, they are still compact when compared to individual homes. Which is why bonsai plants are a great idea for flats. These can be placed on the coffee table, shelves, or even in bathrooms.

Privacy with Plants

Create the illusion of a floating garden by hanging plants on balcony railings; this will free your floor space for seating or movement. Flowering vines, herbs, and creepers are ideal for balcony railings. They can also help create a privacy screen for you and purify the air you breathe.

By hanging cascading creepers on the balcony ceiling, you can actually create a natural curtain, if you want.

Some of the most popular plants for this purpose are: morning glory, passion flower vines, Madhumalti or Rangoon creeper, and bougainvillea but you need to watch out for thorns with the last one.

Indoor Gardening with Aquariums

Sounds unusual, right? But aquariums are a great way to bring in a bit of Nature. Regardless of the size of the tank, you can have plenty of aquatic plants in it, and add some colourful fish and beautiful toys. You will have a wonderful garden and can watch the fish swimming about; it’s great exercise for your eyes as well.

Flower Power in Small Spaces

Balconies are one of the essential amenities in modern flats, and an apartment balcony is a great place to have a flowering garden. They can brighten up the place, and create a charming atmosphere right inside your flat. Choose compact plants with high impact blooms like petunia, marigold, miniature roses, periwinkle, and geraniums. 

These flowers can be easily maintained in containers. You can also combine railing planters, tabletop pots, and hanging planters to create a layer of blooms in the balcony. You can also place a few ornamental ferns and plants with colourful leaves so that even when it’s not flowering time, your balcony is vibrant.

Conclusion

So you can see from the above tips and ideas for beginners that it is not difficult to create a garden in your apartment; you just have to be a little creative. Let your apartment be a space which seamlessly connects to the outdoors and purifies the air you breathe while enhancing the aesthetics of your living space.

PVS Builders is a leading builder in Kannur, and has plenty of green spaces in the apartment premises. The flats are well laid out, ensuring that you can have the garden of your dreams, no matter what kind of garden you wish to have.
With world-class amenities and RERA certification, you can never go wrong with a PVS Builders flat. Whether it’s flats in Calicut or Kannur, PVS is your best bet.