succulent containers - Fine Gardening

  • succulent planter with blue-grey plants
    Design

    Cherry’s August Garden

    Happy Friday GPODers! We're ending the week with an update from frequent GPOD contributor, Cherry Ong. Cherry sends us so many fabulous photos of her travels to gardens across Canada…

  • plants for seating area pots
    Design

    Low-Care Plants for Seating-Area Pots

    If there is one hot plant group I couldn’t live without, it would be succulents. Their luxurious textures, shapes, and colors offer incomparable bold structure. I often create succulent gardens…

  • Sustainable hypertufa trough
    How-To

    How to Make a Sustainable Hypertufa Container

    This video shows how to make a sustainable hypertufa container. These troughs are typically molded using a mixture of portland cement, perlite, and peat moss, but in this tutorial, I'll…

  • Casting a Concrete Leaf Planter
    Design

    Learn How to Make a Concrete-Leaf Planter

    In Fine Gardening #200, Lisa Roper demonstrated how hand-cast leaves can create artful niches for drought-loving plants like succulents (8 Ways to Create Crowd-Pleasing Containers). If you would like to…

  • two unique container plantings
    Design

    Tips and Tricks for Gardening in Containers

    Are you confined to a balcony, deck, or patio and yet yearn to embrace your passion for all things horticultural? You have no reason to contain your enthusiasm. A window…

  • Design

    Succulents Indoors: As Easy as You Might Think?

    You want to bring your succulents indoors, and who can blame you? Succulents are refreshingly offbeat, bordering on freaky in their physical appearance. Envision the botan­ical version of a rhinoceros,…

  • container full of blue succulents
    Design

    Container Creativity in British Columbia

    Cherry Ong has used unusual containers to enhance her well designed miniature gardens.

  • Potted Succlents
    Article

    10 Outstanding Succulents

    Skip the finicky selections and go for these unique yet reliable beauties

  • Succulent Topiary
    How-To

    How to Make a Succulent Topiary

    Everybody’s growing these trendy plants—but not like this