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    Tin Cup Succulent Dish Garden

    Crafting

    I am something of a wishful gardener.

    I have dreams — some would call them delusions — of a beautiful landscape and a garden overflowing with vegetables. But I’m not willing to put in the work to make those visions a reality. Plus, I sometimes forget to water my plants.

    Use unique, upcycled containers, to create your own succulent dish garden. These tin coffee cups are just the right size to hold hens and chicks and other succulents.

    But succulents I can handle. They’re the most easygoing, forgiving plants around — like a hybrid of Matthew McConaughey and your grandma.

    All right, all right, all right — when it comes to succulents, there’s not much you can do to mess them up or upset their equilibrium.

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    Forget to water them for weeks on end? You’re golden.

    Leave them outside all winter? I did this with a pot of hens and chicks, and I thought for sure they would be done for, given all the snow and ice we had this winter. Now that spring as has sprung, they’re not only surviving but thriving. (I wouldn’t recommend leaving succulents outside in frigid temperatures. Ours survived, I think, because they were up against the house, behind some bushes, and sheltered from the worst of the weather.)

    Use unique, upcycled containers, to create your own succulent dish garden. These tin coffee cups are just the right size to hold hens and chicks and other succulents.

    My son and I love to visit the local greenhouse and check out all the miniature plants. We took a field trip recently looking for succulents to plant in some tin coffee cups I scored last year at a yard sale.

    Use unique, upcycled containers, to create your own succulent dish garden. These tin coffee cups are just the right size to hold hens and chicks and other succulents.

    I knew as soon as I saw these cups that I wanted to plant succulents in them.

    This was a fun afternoon project for my son and I. Jackson really likes plants, and he’s pretty attached to them. He has an aloe, an air plant and a cactus in his room, and he’s given a few of them names.

    Atta Girl Says: Make a Fairy Rock Garden with Your Kids

    He really likes digging in the dirt and placing rocks and other baubles to create a miniature world, like he did when we planted this fairy garden. What a funny adventure that was; you have to read it to believe it!

    Use unique, upcycled containers, to create your own succulent dish garden. These tin coffee cups are just the right size to hold hens and chicks and other succulents.

    We were too busy (and too dirty) digging in the dirt when we made these succulent dish gardens for me to take step-by-step photos.

    But trust me: if I can do it, you can do it.

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    Here’s what you’ll need to make your own coffee cup succulent dish garden.

    • aluminum coffee cups or small containers
    • small rocks or pebbles 
    • activated carbon (find it in pet stores with the aquarium supplies)
    • cactus and succulent potting soil mix
    • assorted succulents
    • Fairy garden miniatures (optional)
    • sheet moss (optional)

    Begin by adding a layer of pebbles to the bottom of your container.

    Add a layer of activated carbon or charcoal, followed by a layer of soil.

    Plant succulents in soil and top with a layer of dried moss or more pebbles. (If using moss, be sure to keep it dry to prevent root rot in your plants.)

    Decorate with fairy garden miniatures, rocks, gemstone or other natural elements, as desired.

    Mist your dish garden weekly, being careful not to overwater.

    Use unique, upcycled containers, to create your own succulent dish garden. These tin coffee cups are just the right size to hold hens and chicks and other succulents.

    We have gone a little bit crazy over succulent dish gardens in our house.

    In addition to the tin cup ones Jackson and I made, I also made this one.

    A miniature bicycle and a garden gate trellis make make this succulent dish garden look like a real garden, just in miniature.

    I love that little red bicycle and the trellis.

    These little gardens are like their own little worlds.

    Are these miniature pigs roaming aroudn this succulent dish garden just the cutest thing ever?

    But these little piggies might be my favorite. I actually bought this dish garden a few weeks ago at the local home show. I couldn’t resist those cute-as-a-button oinkers traipsing around on little wood slice stepping stones.

    For more miniature gardening ideas, everything from succulent dish gardens to fairy gardens, I recommend these books:

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    1. Theresa @DearCreatives

      April 21, 2015 at 10:19 pm

      Such a cute garden project! Thanks for sharing your project at the Inspiration Spotlight party! Hope to see you again soon. Pinned & shared.

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    2. Carrie @ Curly Crafty Mom

      April 19, 2015 at 4:21 pm

      I just adore succulents! I always put some in my bird bath fairy garden every May!

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    3. Lou Lou Girls

      April 18, 2015 at 9:20 pm

      Hello gorgeous! I love seeing your masterpieces.Thank you for bringing such great things to our party. Pinned and tweeted. I hope to see you on Monday at 7 pm.. Lou Lou Girls

      Reply
    4. Karren Haller

      April 17, 2015 at 12:32 pm

      I have been looking for really unusual ways to add some more plants that will survive in the heat, I love the planter you have used for your succulent!!

      I would love to have you stop by and share your post on my Friday Feature Linky Party this week.
      Hope you have a great weekend, Karren

      Reply
    5. kirby

      April 10, 2015 at 9:52 am

      You know what’s funny? I am a really good gardener, but I suck at succulents! I guess we all have our gifts!

      Reply

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