Creative Indoor Mini Gardens

Let your imagination run free by designing your own indoor gardens! With the simple step-by-step instructions in our course, you can quickly create delightful mini gardens using old containers such as cocktail glasses or coffee pots to turn into vessels for your plants.

KEY COURSE BENEFITS:
• Internationally-recognized CPD accredited course
• Course access: 60 days – Study at your own pace
• Start learning straightaway from any laptop or mobile device in any country

What you'll learn:

• How to create your very own unique piece of natural beauty in your home
• Fire up your imagination, unleash your creative spirit and bring mini landscapes to life
• Confidently grow and look after beautiful plants such as tropical plants, cacti, air plants and mosses
• What to look out for when buying plants at a garden center or online to ensure you’re picking healthy varieties
• Choosing the right vessel for your particular project. You can reuse old containers and give them a new lease of life
• Putting together your mini garden with the right soil and different layers for good drainage and filtration
• Ideas for decorating your gardens such as seashells, crystals, unicorns and dinosaurs
• Keeping your garden alive by identifying pesky pests or diseases
• Tips for making sure your garden stays healthy and beautiful

Forget about sticking a pot plant in a corner and watering it once a week. A mini garden brightens every room and lifts your spirits.

Create natural landscapes or mythical lands in miniature in your home. Bring every corner of any room to life with your mini garden creations bursting with oxygen-boosting plants.

As well as giving life to a room, indoor plants help purify air so the air you breathe is cleaner. There’s something magical and mindful about nurturing plants, caring for them and watching them grow.

These modern mini natural landscapes look like living works of art. Although they can be intricate and delicate, they’re easy and economical to make at home.

The course has 33 contemporary mini garden designs which can fill even the smallest corner in any room. Whatever your dream garden contains, you can make a mini version in your home. With the projects in this course, you’ll never run out of ideas.

Release your creative spirit on to the gardening world and grow your own ecosystem to enhance your home.

Bring the outdoors inside and start deciding on your first mini garden from the projects in our online course now.

How is the Creative Indoor Mini Gardens course assessed?

There is a short multiple-choice exam at the end of each module for you to take and you’ll know your score immediately.

By studying Gardening online with IOA, you do not pay an extra fee for sitting an exam or have to wait for a set date to sit an exam.

Creative Mini Gardens Course Syllabus

Module 1: Introduction

• 1.1 The wardian case
• 1.2 How a terrarium works
• 1.3 All about layers

Module 2: Getting Started

• 2.1 Vessels
• 2.2 Terrarium plants
• 2.3 Foundation
• 2.4 Decorative elements
• 2.5 Tools of the trade

Module 3: Fantastic Projects To Get Started

• 3.1 A buddhaful memo board
• 3.2 Air plant-etarium
• 3.3 Shake n bake
• 3.4 Best fronds forever
• 3.5 Concharium
• 3.6 Cactusville
• 3.7 Darling dino

Module 4: Creative Projects For Decorating

• 4.1 Desert oasis
• 4.2 A plant lover’s dream
• 4.3 A mossy occasion
• 4.4 Fern fever
• 4.5 Go with the faux
• 4.6 Green lantern
• 4.7 Mossy picchu

Module 5: Darling Projects For Gifts

• 5.1 Will you Mari-mo me?
• 5.2 Succulent cocktail
• 5.3 Geo minimal
• 5.4 Prickly by nature
• 5.5 Little miss sunshine
• 5.6 So jelly
• 5.7 Jar-ry rigged

Module 6: Fun Weekend Projects

• 6.1 Wild thing
• 6.2 The beads’ knees
• 6.3 Orchid mania
• 6.4 Woodland chandelier
• 6.5 Zen Succulence
• 6.6 Test subjects
• 6.7 Secret Garden
• 6.8 Four easy ways to style air plants
• 6.9 Capture the rainbow

Module 7: Keeping Up With Your Plants

• 7.1 Pest control
• 7.2 Propagation

• Everybody who seeks for a new hobby to boost their manual and creative skills or start a new business
• Everybody who wants to bring fresh air to their homes
• Everyone with a creative eye who loves the idea of bringing nature indoors
• People who recognize the health benefits of indoor plants and want something more imaginative than pot plants
• Gardeners looking for new projects
• Interior designers who would like to offer a new service to clients
• Wedding planners and stylists can add mini gardens to their decorations
• Florists or flower arrangers can create mini gardens to sell
• Anyone looking for interesting items to sell at craft fairs or markets

This Mini Gardens course is open to all, with no formal entry requirements.

• Professional Gardener
• Garden Landscaper
• Garden Centre Assistant
• Caretaker
• Florist