Design and Composition Ideas to Create Living Botanical Décors
Discover some original ideas to design harmonious, balanced and beautiful botanical compositions
Creating living wall art and spaces is a way to bring nature into our homes or workplace, especially when we don’t have enough room for large planters. This type of décor gives a great visual impact because the natural designs, which stand out thanks to their colors and shapes, add a very attractive touch to the room, and are undoubtedly beneficial for the environment.
Meena and Ceci, from Compañía Botánica (@ciabotanica), a brand dedicated to outdoor, balcony, and green wall design, are experts in combining design and plants. As a team, they create settings and botanical décors, such as living wall art, made with framed cacti and succulents. These have a very versatile life of their own and can be adapted to any type of environment.
The two designers are sharing here some keys to creating living décor. Four ideas and tips to compose your pieces with succulents, based on shape, color, etc.
Design and composition ideas to create amazing living wall art
1. Living wall art in gray tones.
You can choose to make a monochrome piece with gray succulents and to keep everything flat in color. Remember that, if you choose gray succulents, you must place them in a very bright space, otherwise, they will become elongated and etiolated (due to prolonged absence of light plants can lose their chlorophyll pigments, transforming into whitish tissues very similar to the roots).
2. Use green succulents.
Instead, if the interior is not so bright, it is advisable to make a monochrome version in intense green. In this case, there will be a wider range of succulents with higher chlorophyll content to pick from and make a composition with. You can even combine them with hanging or climbing plants to create a gradient.
3. Multicolored wall art.
Another option is to go for a multicolored style. For this style, you can use star plants, lilac, purple, or even red succulents, and other plants with colored outer lines, not forgetting hanging plants that will give bursts of different tones to the composition. As a tip, choose a corner of the frame using star plants to start a gradient, and stagger them down to the bottom. In this way, the gaze will be drawn towards the most interesting succulents, and it won’t be necessary for all the other plants in the composition to be perfect.
4. Combine different types of plants.
This final alternative will help if you do not have many succulents. Choose an area of your composition and cover it with moss overlapping the edge of your container, to give a rustic and unstructured quality to the composition. This is ideal if you intend to put together several pieces. You can achieve a great visual effect if you put three or four together.
Meena and Ceci teach the 'Design and Creation of Botanical Compositions' Domestika course, the best way to learn techniques to create living wall art using cacti and succulents, from assembling the wooden box that will contain your plants, to getting tips for the conservation and propagation of succulents, expanding your collection, and incorporating your creations into the décor of your home or workplace.
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