windowsill succulent garden

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windowsill succulent garden

I’m loving the newest addition to our indoor gardens: windowsill succulents. On an innocent trip to Lowe’s to look at self-watering pots, we were distracted by a cute little potted arrangement of four succulents. Then Daniel, ever the green-thumb, said, “We can do this better – let’s plant them ourselves.” We knew the succulents would be great in our rather-wide windowsills, and when we couldn’t find a suitable planter, we had just the solution: our shipping pallets.

Our love of gardening (indoors and out) is well-documented on this site (here, here, and here), and we also happen to have a bunch of shipping pallets lying around (for a DIY table project). The already-sanded wood we’ve harvested from the pallets made the perfect containers for our windowsill garden.

Once the boxes were built, Daniel lined them with plastic (cut from a potting soil bag) and filled them with a mixture of potting soil and perlite.

Once the succulents were settled, we trimmed the edges of the plastic just below the soil line and gave the plants a good soaking via spray bottle.

These little guys soaked up the morning sun.

We built three boxes, one for each window in the bedroom. Daniel had yet another idea: locally harvested rocks to top the soil. So we trekked into the woods, and we (and by we I mean he) gathered pebbles from a little creek. The pebbles were just the right finishing touch.

Et voilà.

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Written by Ann

July 10, 2012 at 10:42 pm

Posted in decorating

Tagged with DIY windowbox, indoor garden, succulent garden, windowbox garden

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I love it! Good job y’all!

Caroline

July 19, 2012 at 8:33 pm

Have you had any problems with drainage? Don’t the succulents need to drain so they don’t rot?

Anonymous

May 12, 2013 at 12:35 pm

That’s a great question. Ours isn’t a perfect system. We don’t water them often, since they require so little water, but every now and then we take them outside and give them a good soaking. There are small holes in that plastic liner, as well as cracks in the wood, that allow the excess water to drain off.

Ann

May 15, 2013 at 10:31 pm

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