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High-end home design magazines often feature interesting (and expensive) containers filled with artfully arranged succulents. Luckily for your pocketbook, the concept is easy to replicate at home. Even the most forgetful plant killer can keep this no-fuss terrarium alive. Just don’t fight back if you get pricked.
If you’re giving the terrarium as a gift—or even if you just want a reminder for yourself—create a tag with care instructions specific to the succulents you’ve planted.
Be sure to include their requirements for sun and how often they need water.
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The Bust DIY Guide to Life by Debbie Stoller
Published by Abrams
Whether it’s sewing clothes, making cheese, or growing a garden, the modern appeal of “do-it-yourself” projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the über-crafty editors of BUST, the quirky, raw, and real magazine “for women who have something to get off their chests”? In The BUST DIY Guide to Life, magazine founders Debbie Stoller (of Stitch ’n Bitch fame) and Laurie Henzel have culled more than 250 of the best DIY and craft projects from its 15-year history. Organized by category—beauty and health, fashion, food and entertaining, career, finance, travel, and sex—and written in BUST’s trademark brazen and witty style, this quintessential DIY encyclopedia from the quintessential DIY magazine is eclectic, empowerin...
© 2013 Debbie Stoller / Abrams · Reproduced with permission.Instructions
You Will Need
- Bag of small Rock(s)
- Glass Container with a large opening
- Horticultural Charcoal (available at most gardening-supply stores)
- Cactus Soil
- Small succulent Plant(s) (we used 1" and 2" plants; be sure to select ones that require similar growing conditions)
- Landscape Decorations such as figurines and plant markers
- Project Cost
- Cheap
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Pour enough rocks into your container to make a layer 1
approximately 2 ?2" deep. Carefully pour in a 1" to 11?2" layer of charcoal. -
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Add a layer of soil thick enough to reach slightly higher than the midpoint of your container.
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Arrange the succulents to your liking. Plant them and
gently pack down the soil all around them. -
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Add decorations (if you wish) to personalize the landscape. That’s it!
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