18 Indoor Rock Garden Ideas | How to Make an Indoor Rock Garden

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Add a touch of serenity and tranquility to your interior with these Indoor Rock Garden Ideas and induce an element of calmness to your decor.

The idea of creating an indoor rock garden is surely very unique and impactful. You can use stones, pebbles, and gravels of different shapes and sizes to enhance the beauty of your home. Check out some of the best Indoor Rock Garden Ideas in the article below!


1. Desktop Zen Rock Garden

Indoor Rock Garden Ideas

Mini tabletop Zen gardens are the best way to create a unique look. You could create one by putting a feathery plant in a shallow vessel, surrounded with moss, ocean-tumbled rocks, and spiky sticks. Check the tutorial here.

2. Indoor Rock Garden with Water Feature

Make a mini rock garden with a water feature as the fizzy sound on the pebbles will give a feel of a fountain flowing. For this DIY, you will need a pump, a planter base, and beach stones.

3. Succulent Rock Garden

How to Make an Indoor Rock Garden

This glass terrarium is a perfect place for mini succulents. Use stones, charcoal, and soil to provide them an ideal environment for their optimum growth. Learn this DIY in detail.

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4. Rock Filled Succulent Terrarium

 

Terrarium designer Megan George has grown various succulents mixed with turquoise stones and mineral rocks. Learn to make a similar arrangement here.

5. Mini Zen Garden Rake

Make this serene version of a zen garden for your tabletop by following this tutorial, and create this piece of art in easy steps.

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6. Closed Terrarium Rock Graden

How to Make an Indoor Rock Garden the best way

This small closed terrarium idea is perfect for humidity-loving plants! Find this DIY here, where moss, ferns, gravels, pebbles, and twigs are used beautifully to make an elegant specimen.

7. Easy Indoor Succulent Rock Garden

This DIY will demand a few minutes of effort from you. Arrange beautiful succulents with striking river-rocks of diverse sizes in a colorful pot and beautify any corner of your home with this graceful piece of work.

8. DIY Rock Fountain

If you want to explore your creative side, then follow this tutorial to create a mini rock fountain.

9. White Pebble Garden

Create a calm and peaceful decor for your home by filling the wooden box with white gravels and arranging succulents into it. Check the full tutorial here.

10. Cat-Friendly Indoor Rock Garden

making an Indoor Rock Garden

Plant some cat-friendly plants and herbs like cat-grass, parsley, rosemary in a pot, embellished with gravels and rocks, making it a perfect pet-friendly rock garden. Go through this blog to get the idea!

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11. Have a Touch of Zen Garden with Rocks

Recreate your living space with a touch of Japanese culture by preparing a zen garden; a small bamboo fountain will add a touch of the serenity to it along with rocks and gravels.

12. Decor with Large Rocks

A path surrounded by white-colored pebbles and plants will be a gorgeous addition to your interior.

13. Small Garden by a Large Window

Making a unique Indoor Rock Garden Ideas

Rock garden reflects the essence of nature in any indoor space. With a little effort, you can create a similar sophisticated structure, adorned with smooth pebbles and large stones.

14.  Designing with Asymmetrical Rocks

Gravels are used to create ripples of water imitates the look of a Japanese rock garden indoors. You can also experiment with volcanic rocks as well. 

15. Indoor Rock Garden for Office

Snake plants can be an excellent option for rock gardens. Learn about some of the best varieties here.

16. Rock Garden Under the Stairs

Some of the best Indoor Rock Garden Ideas

Use the space under your stairs to create an indoor rock garden. Check out more such ideas here.

17. Under Stair Rock Garden Idea

If the space under your stairs is open and receives indirect light, you can grow plants like crotons and succulents.

18. Contrasting Color Rock Garden

Top Indoor Rock Garden Ideas

Creating a path, using different colored stones, leading to the end of the stairs is a unique way to utilize the open area.

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  1. The bulbous shape and colorful handles on this ceramic pot, handmade in London, will make it an adorable addition to your vertical garden.

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