Easy steps to your succulent topiary
Gather your supplies
- Urn
- Pebbles
- Succulent potting mix
- Sphagnum moss
- Chicken wire
- Succulent cuttings
- Floral wire
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For you to note
- The pebbles are to keep your urn stable so it doesn’t fall over.
- Succulents readily root into sphagnum moss, thrive and grow. Sphagnum moss absorbs water quickly, allowing the cuttings to get a good drink, then dries quickly so that the roots don’t rot.
Here’s how
Step 1
Fill base of urn with pebbles, then top up with succulent potting mix.
Step 2
Make a sphere from the chicken wire, leaving the bottom open. Remove excess wire with wire cutters.
Step 3
Fill bucket with water and soak sphagnum moss for about 15 minutes.
Step 4
Squeeze excess water from sphagnum moss and press into wire sphere, filling it. Place on top of urn, open end on top of mix.
Step 5
Guide stems of succulent cuttings into sphagnum moss with a chopstick or pencil.
Step 6
If succulent cuttings don’t have enough stem, spear base with floral wire, bend in half and insert into sphagnum moss.
Step 7
Cover sphagnum moss ball with succulents, varying the shape and colour of the plants to create a random pattern.
Have a ball, but don’t box yourself in with topiaried buxus. Instead, create a stunning statement urn that you don’t have to regularly clip! Many succulents produce tall flower spikes, trim when flowers fade to keep your topiary ball neat.