Succulent container no. 16

Terracotta pot

Succulent container no. 16 is a pot with various succulents/cacti.

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Succulent container no. 15

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Succulent container no. 15 is a baby pot with three succulents/cacti.

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Repurposed ceramic becomes a planter

 

 

Succulent container no. 14

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Succulent container no. 14 is a mix of succulents in a ‘battery jar.’ This type of jar was originally used to hold acid to create a battery. Thick glass, filled in part with glass ‘ice’ cubes, creates an interior greenhouse effect for the soil.

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Succulents: One of many

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The “succulent container” usually refers to a potpourri-style in which many types of succulents are combined in a single pot. In these cases the result is often an unruly competition between them, with some growing faster and some growing over other.

Another style, shown here, is to grow all the same species in a single container. This produces a different visual effect, I think, where the many combine to create a single ‘plant’. Another benefit is that there’s no real competition – and some succulents that are not so great visually in a single planting look good when grown en masse.

 

This one’s not mine – belongs to Roy Plackett (Succulent specialist in Auckland)

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Succulent repot

Gaping hole…

 

Sometimes one of several succulents in a pot doesn’t work, either for aesthetic reasons or doesn’t play well with others, or … dies. In any of the above cases, just rip it out and do anew.

The job here took about 10 minutes. So not a major…

replant

All done

Final – in context

Succulent container no. 13

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Succulent container no. 13 is a mix of succulents in a glass jar. Moss grows in the walls of the jar because of the humidity that comes from below, where the water rests.

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Succulent container no. 12

Ceramic bowl

Succulent container no. 12 is another mix of succulents.

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Succulent container no. 9

Hand-made bonsai pot, from Aussie

Succulent container no. 9 is a mix of succulents and cacti, with a succulent bonsai tree and loose stones. The cactus on the right is an Echinopsis ‘Bay Bloom.’

 

Succulent Container no. 8

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Succulent container no. 8 is a small grouping of succulents in a ceramic pot.

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Succulent Container no. 7

 

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Succulent container no. 7 is a succulent mix with elevated rocks in a larger ceramic pot.

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Succulent Container no. 6

 

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Succulent container no. 6 is a Jade ‘Gollum’ (Crassula ovata) in a ceramic pot with loose stones.

Succulent Container no. 5

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Succulent container no. 5 is a grouping of succulents in a ceramic pot. The hanging Echeveria grew in a larger collection of succulents and was recently relocated.

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Succulent Colours no. 3

Sempervivum (centre) and Echeveria

updated photo (2 months later)

Kalanchoe pumila, a member of the Crassula genus

 

A few more colourful images of succulents (second, later photo not so good, but wanted to show the chicks emerging from the hen). The Sempervivum (top image) is one of my favourites and this one (with chick just showing behind hen) has a great dense structure.

 

Succulent Container no. 4

 

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Succulent container no. 4 is a small grouping of succulents in a re-purposed ceramic bowl. I’ll add more shots as it grows in.

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One from Many: Succulent Containers

One giant succulent container

 
 
 

One method of creating succulent containers is to start out big. For a large pot I’ve used everything from large pots to styrofoam containers to shallow wooden boxes and ceramic bird feeders. In it, you allow many succulents to grow and to clump together.

Many from one

 

Once that’s achieved (6 to 18 months later), you then break up the whole into parts that you then re-pot. In the example here, one big pot of succulents became about 15, including one that’s medium size. Each has three to seven succulents in them that can now fill in the pot, with future pruning finishing off the creation.

 

One example of the many