Succulent Christmas Tree

by Craft Invaders

3 Materials

$10

30-60 Minutes

Easy

My son and I turned our simple home-made willow cone into a wonderful Succulent Christmas Tree - This wonderful centrepiece can be used both in the house and garden, and would make a fabulous original gift.

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We used our Rustic Willow Cone for this project, but you could just as easily fashion your cone form out of other materials such as chicken wire.

We lined our cone with moss, and filled the center with compost (we chose a rough textured compost designed for planting bulbs in as we felt it would be less susceptible to being washed out by the rain).

And then used a covering of moss and some wire to hold everything in place.

We actually quite like the look of our cone just filled with moss!

Then it was just a matter of planting our succulents. We managed to find some hen and chick succulent plants at the nursery which had loads of little baby plants, so we gently broke the babies off and used a pencil to make a hole to insert them into. These baby plants don't have much in the way of roots at present, by succulents are tenacious by nature, so we are hopeful they will soon settle in and take root in their new home.

We had a selection of succulents with different colours and leaf shape, so we tried to dot them around in a pleasing arrangement.

Although succulents are very tolerant of drought conditions we will be keeping our succulent Christmas tree outside in our moist autumn air to give the young plants a chance to grow and root in before bringing it inside for Christmas.