Indoor gardening - create an inviting interior

Indoor gardening can convey a very inviting and attractive interior environment. 

Using planter boxes for your indoor gardening design

Planter boxes are normally built from a material such as brick, and they also need to be cement rendered. "With a planter box or a built-in garden, you need to ensure good drainage," says Jim from Glorious Gardens. "That will normally require putting some fibreglass between the planter box walls/base and the cement render.

From then on you've got two choices - you can either fill in the planter box with a growing medium like potting mix, or what a lot of people do is throw the plants in a big pot and cover it all with mulch, then plant rental companies can replace the plants every few months."

Choosing the right environment for indoor gardening features

Given that indoor gardening plants require a certain amount of sunlight, changing the plants every couple of months by using an indoor gardening plant hire company makes a lot of sense.

"What they do is swap the plants over, put the original plants in the glasshouse, repot them, fertilise them, let them grow for a couple of months then you can put them back indoors again," says Jim.

Creating your own lush-filled foliage room

It's possible to create a living interior by building an indoor garden yourself, if you have basic handyman skills. Indoor gardening is suitable for most types of homes, looking equally as appealing in a heritage home as in a modern, contemporary space. The ideal position for them is a sunny or north-facing part of the house.

Indoor gardening costs

Indoor gardening is likely to set you back a couple of thousand dollars, given that you'll need various materials to build the planter box, fibreglass it and cement render it.

Additional costs are incurred if you choose to use a plant hire company to swap your plants around. If you want to create indoor greenery on the cheap, you're probably better off sticking with humble pot plants.

Contact an indoor plant supplier to discuss your indoor gardening design: