DIY Air Plant Stand

If you were graced a blackness thumb (like me!) and have problem keeping even the simplest of plants alive in your home, you might desire to consider investing in an air plant. Air plants blot their nutrients, not through their roots, but through their leaves and simply require indirect sun and a light misting every then often to survive.

A low maintenance repertoire that even the houseplant-challenged can master. Give tiptop and a sculptural element to these effortless plants with this easy DIY air plant stand. With an end outcome that resembles the wait of modern palm copse, these babies volition help you channel a tropical oasis fifty-fifty in the dead of wintertime!

Supplies:

2" wood block cube
1 slice of 18-20 gauge silver or gold floral wire at least 11" long
Wire cutter
1" diameter cylindrical particular such as a small spool of thread
Measuring tape
Pen or pencil
Electrical drill fitted with a 1/xvi" drill bit
Small air establish

1. Mark the eye of ane face up of the wood cube.

ii. Cutting the floral wire to 11" length (if necessary). Wrap one finish of the wire around the spool of thread to create a ring. Slide the band off of the spool of thread, and twist wire terminate onto ring, and trim tail.

3. Curve the band downward at a 45 degree bending, keeping the "cervix" portion of the wire as directly as possible.

4. Drill the center of block as marked in stride 1. Drill only 7/8^th of the way down, and not all the way through the block. Accept care to drill directly downwards (not at an angle). Brush off sawdust.