Succulent Crafts

Fun Garden Projects with Succulent Plants

I also like to make succulent balls; see the tutorial on how to make a succulent sphere, or fill succulent hanging baskets with their many forms and textures for a summer display.

Some of the designs you can use are Celtic knots, mandalas or letters, like a monogram, or take your inspiration from nature and use a swirl of different coloured succulent plants to imitate a whirlpool, or a cloud.

These make perfect filler plants as they have a finer texture, allowing the larger forms of the rosette types to stand out if you use them for a pattern in a mosaic, or as numbers in your address sign. Succulent crafts are a perfect place to use those unidentified succulents or unidentified Sedum in your collection.

I also use many of the hardy succulents such as Sedum and Sempervivum in the same ways, but they don’t have to be brought in for the winter, simply covered with some leaves or straw (don’t use hay as it has weed seeds – a big problem when they germinate in the spring.)

If you’re beheading your succulent plants on a regular basis to make a shorter rosette, you probably have a good start on a supply of smaller rosettes that are growing nicely on the bare stalk left behind.

These make excellent small cuttings for succulent crafts of all descriptions as they are easy to handle, root quickly and grow in to fill the space on the craft.

Many Sedum varieties can be used too, as a background plant.

Succulent crafts such as mosaics, topiary and rustic root planters you make with these plants should be laid on a pile of leaves where they will be covered in snow if you get it, otherwise cover them with metal window screen to protect the plants from mice and voles.

This will give them extra protection from cold weather, and temperature fluctuations. They won’t need water until the spring time as a rule, and too much winter wet will kill most hardy succulent plants. The ‘hardy’ part refers to cold and dry conditions.

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Succulents

Succulent Plants

Succulent Mirror Frame

Succulent Wreaths

Succulent Address Sign

Succulent Topiary

Succulent Mosaic

Succulent Hanging Basket

Hypertufa

Rustic Root Planters