Barefoot Gardening

Since I’ve fallen in love with gardening, I’ve started making customized containers as gifts. For Mother’s Day, I put together the pieces for little air plant terrariums and shipped them off to Pennsylvania. I wanted something low maintenance, but unique for my mom. I found inexpensive hanging globes at Pottery Barn’s after Christmas sale last year and bought two boxes. I got some neutral colored rocks, though I pondered colored sand, and just added air plants that I picked up at the SF Flower and Garden Show. It was creative, but super easy to put together. Here is a pic my mom sent. They’re sitting on the windowsill but can just as easily hang from the curtain rod.

Edit: after I posted this, I discovered another blog with a similar project, only theirs is an entire chandelier. You should definitely check theirs out. Additionally, the globes are also available at CB2.

I wasn’t brave enough to try and deal with the side effects (rust etc) of planting in tea tins. But I did finally put up cute tea towel curtains in my kitchen. And while that’s not entirely gardening related, I wanted to share them anyway, since they do compliment my windowsill garden. For the curious, the tea towels are Mummy2 by Tikoli.

Also, from left to right are a sun jar, two cow pots with lavender seedlings, a prayer plant, a venus flytrap, rosemary, chives, and aloe. I also usually grow basil inside, but I haven’t gotten around to it this season.