9 Cute DIY Teacup Garden Ideas
Add some whimsy to your decor! Turn old teacups into charming mini gardens! Did you pick up a stray teacup at the thrift store? Do you have more teacups than you know what to do with? Looking for a unique DIY gift? Here are a few easy DIY miniature garden ideas to get you started.
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Use your imagination and creativity!
DIY Teacup Gardens
Camp Makery has a wonderful step by step tutorial on how to make these super cute mini teacup fairy gardens. Aren’t these just too adorable!
Here’s a super pretty way to grow a container herb garden! This teacup herb garden by The Brower Bird Stories is a beautiful way to grow herbs (and to also gift herbs).
The simplicity of using white cups as a planter for these charming flowers is just lovely! Find out how to make this teacup planter pots via Go Make Me
Succulents planted in a teacup by Kerry Michaels @ About. Com Container Garden Ideas
Look how pretty this basil and parsley is growing in a teacup via Creative Juice
Gorgeous Cacti display in teacups via Casos de Casa
I love this! Gorgeous blue and white teacups planted with the perfect color matching pansies via My Place in the Sun
How creative is this! Little pond plants in a teacup via BuzzFeed
HGTV Gardens has easy steps for creating this teacup garden filled with green plants!
What You Need To Make A Teacup Garden
To make a teacup garden, you’ll need: teacup, potting soil, small rocks to act as a drainage at the bottom of the cup, decorative moss or small rocks to cover the top of the soil around the plants (optional), plants, decorative fairy garden accessories of your choice (easy to find at any craft store as well as Amazon where you can buy a complete kit here.
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They are all so pretty, Manuela! A great way to use some of those pretty teacups that you can find at the thrift store.
These are so charming! After I stopped doing mosaics I donated all of my extra china to goodwill. Now I wish I had saved some tea cups!
They are cute. I did some succulents in one last year and I like to put my spring primroses in them too.
These are so adorable, you must have a very green thumb. Great idea to use cast off tea cups at yard sales and thrift stores. You’ve made them look so cute, pretty in a group. Happy weekend
These are all so precious! I have so many odds and ends of teacups and saucers – now, I know what to do with them. I especially like the last ones from HGTV.
Judy
Now wouldn’t that be a pretty addition to my teapot garden on the front porch? I’ll just have to dig about and see if I don’t have some spare cups!
Yes, that would be so cute!