15 Orchid Dish Garden Ideas for Homes

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Sure, you can grow orchids in decorative vases or hangers. But do you know what would really make them stand out? These Orchid Dish Garden Ideas!

Thanks to the versatility of these gorgeous flowers, orchids always stand out as one of the best choices for interior decor arrangements. Plus, they’re surprisingly easy to care for. Get ready to be inspired–we’ve got some of the best orchid dish garden ideas you won’t want to miss!


One Simple Trick to Create an Orchid Dish Garden

Before you start scrolling down to enjoy these ideas, it’s important to note that orchids have different growing needs from usual houseplants, and they don’t thrive in regular soil.

This is why the best way to create such arrangements for your Orchid Dish Garden is to place them in a separate small pot inside the arrangement or create a compartment.

You can hide this small pot by covering the surface with moss, pebbles, or bark while ensuring each plant gets the proper moisture level and the soil won’t mix up with orchids. With this simple trick, you can easily grow orchids with other indoor plants and succulents.


Orchid Dish Garden Ideas

1. Orchid Dish with Small Filler Flowers

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If you love contrasting colors, try pairing yellow orchids with small filler flowers like this. This one has pink kalanchoes growing together, too!

2. Combine Foliage with Light Colors

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Now, this decor may look complicated, but it is not! All you have to do is display an orchid in your favorite planter bowl and add a few foliage plants!

3. Gorgeous DIY Orchid Accent Planter

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Want to know how to recreate this stunning orchid dish bowl? Here are all the steps you need to follow!

4. Natural Orchid Dish Garden for Tabletops

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You can’t go wrong with this shallow stone bowl to show off your beautiful orchids and maidenhair fern. Here’s the DIY for this one!

5. Orchid Dishes with Variegated Foliage

Sometimes, interior decor is as easy as grabbing an old pot and turning it into a tabletop orchid dish! Don’t skip a plant with variegated foliage.

6. Bromeliads and White Orchid Dish

Besides the classic black-and-white combo of the orchids and the bowl, you can add a trinket like a bow. This one also has bromeliads!

7. Orchid Bowl with Fern and Ivy

Have a big unused bowl lying around the house? Clean it up and make this lush dish garden of white orchids with a fern and an ivy. However, when you do it be careful keep your orchid in a separate pot so as not to mix with other plants with different needs.

8. Orchids and Fake Succulents

Here’s proof that an orchid dish looks that much better if you add a few trailing succulents, but to save yourself from the hassles, use the fake ones!

9. Orchids and Tree Houseleeks with Driftwood

Now this is something really interesting! All you need is a bit of driftwood and a vintage stubby dish or pot to recreate this idea.

10. Miniature Woodland Orchid Garden

This orchid dish garden has everything from ferns and moss to wandering dudes! That’s what makes it look like a mini jungle.

11. Repurposed Basket as Orchid Dish

Who says you need a dish to make an orchid garden like this idea? Why not repurpose an old wicker basket for it?

12. Orchid Dish Garden in a Ceramic Pot

You can add a bit of style and pretty colors by going with a ceramic planter like this as well!

13. Shallow Container Orchid Garden

This orchid dish garden is simple to make and lovely to look at. The pale shade of the peperomias really brings a soft glimmer to the darker greens.

14. Vibrant Orchids in a Dish

An orchid dish can be your chance to show off your favorite color. Add a bunch of pink orchids like dendrobiums or phalaenopsis, some vining plant like ivy, and voila!

15. Alocasia and Orchid Dish Garden

We bet you haven’t seen anything more beautiful! An easy way to add different hues to an orchid dish is to add multicolor houseplants like alocasias and tillandsias.


Which one of these orchid dish garden ideas are you excited to recreate? Try them out today, and let us know how it goes in the comments below!

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