I recently was on the hunt for some new containers for the plants that I have in boring black and green planters, and got bummed out because it seemed as if all the containers cost more than I wanted to spend. Then I wandered into the picnic/summer area of the store. They had big square bowls and sets of four smaller square bowls for $3.99. They were 25 percent off, so I only spent around $8 for two big bowls and two sets of small bowls. Score!
When I got home, I used an awl to carefully punch drainage holes into the bottom of the bowls. The turquoise bowl in the picture below complements the buttercup yellow flowers that just bloomed on my new echeveria pulidonis.
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| Echeveria in bloom |
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| Echeveria have small, adorable bell-shaped flowers. |
Many succulent fanatics like to use a top dressing. Top dressing is decorative stones, marbles, gravel, tumbled glass, etc. that you put over the top layer of dirt so the arrangement looks pretty and to keep the succulent leaves from resting on potentially damp dirt. I think some white fish tank gravel may look nice in the arrangement pictured.
Do you use a top dressing? What do you use?
