PLANT ME!
Making KOKEDAMA popular…
“I don’t like pots, I like plants to hang but not with pots. The kokedamas look like living art. I want them to look like living spheres.”
what is a kokedama?
Kokedama are also called poor man's bonsai. They’re made of wet akadama soil and peat moss formed to a ball. A plant is set into the ball and afterwards the moss is wrapped around. Aluminum wire or nylon wire fixes the whole bundle, and is ready to hang near a window.
When I started making Kokedama, I mostly used indoor exotic tropical plants or succulents, but after large area fires started affecting our air and climate here in the Grand Valley where we live, we began to think of how indoor plants could help clear the air for humans in our houses, while ash fell outside and the air was filled with smoke. It takes an estimated 12 plants to make enough oxygen for one adult in a room.
There’s a thought!
make my own…
We have now made a kokedama DIY kit and instructions to make your own ball, with the intention of making this your own experience. You may purchase one of our finished Kokedama, but meditatively making your own, will do wonders in this pandemic isolation —at least it does for me.
We have assembled all essential raw materials, in one box, that you need to make one! It will be available at the store soon.
