Friends, it appears that I'm on a succulent kick. It started after Christmas. I always plant paperwhites around Christmas in a large serving bowl and after they die, I save the bowl (dirt and all) for next year. But this year I'm trying to keep more plants in the house, so that bowl was replanted with succulents.
It moves around the house as needed :). One of the - pretty obvious - things that I LOVE about succulents is how low maintenance they are. I planted these guys in March and have watered them once since. Easy! I am terribly neglectful of potted plants, but I absolutely adore having them in the house, so I've been trying to incorporate more plants that don't need a lot of t.l.c from me.
For this little succulent garden, I added some river rocks and mossy rocks (both from Target), to add a little texture and make the dirt look not so ... dirty ;).
And speaking of low-maintenance. Each summer, I plant flowers in cute little white pots on our front steps (you can see past containers
here and
here). Last summer was no different, except that I was even more neglectful than usual (
KITCHEN!). I let the flowers die and the weeds grow and a few weeks ago, our steps looked like this.
Yikes. Those are some huge weeds. But do you notice something about these containers?
Look closely - the couple succulents that I'd added to the containers not only survived ...
But some even thrived! Our front steps get huge amounts of afternoon sun, which is pretty hard on certain flowers, but apparently succulents love it. I can take a hint.
Now, our front step containers are all neat and tidy. And, planted full of lovely succulents.
I'm not sure how much each of these succulent varieties will fill in, so I might need to plant more, but I'm excited to see how these look by the end of summer. And, I'm even more excited that they'll (hopefully) flourish without much babysitting from me!
Friends, do you plant succulents? Do you love to take care of plants, or do you take the more hands-off approach to gardening and house plants?
