The holidays are over, and your Christmas decorations are ready to take a long winter’s nap. Your home is now a fresh canvas for new ideas, colorful dreams, and positive goals! Give your space a plant-based makeover with indoor container gardens filled with succulents, cacti, and gorgeous pottery!
SUPPLIES
To get started, you will need the following supplies for this project:
- Select from our premium pottery or planters from Bloem®
- Succulents and cacti plants
- Calloway’s Premium Container Potting Soil or Black Gold® Cactus Mix
- Pebbles
- Gardening gloves and hand shovel
Planting Indoor Container Gardens with Succulents & Cacti
STEP 1: ADD PEBBLES AND POTTING SOIL
First, prepare your pots for planting! Start with creating proper drainage, as succulents and cacti cannot tolerate standing water.
Fill the bottom of your planters with pebbles. This will help prevent the soil from leaking out and the drain holes from getting clogged.
Next, add your potting soil. The soil you use is very important to maintain the health and the ease of caring for your plants. For your planting success, use Calloway’s Premium Container Potting Soil or try Black Gold® Cactus Mix.
Calloway’s Premium Container Potting Soil is formulated specifically for your containers. It helps your plants get the best start for healthier, continued growth. It contains water saving ingredients like Hydrogel water holding crystals, Expanded Shale and Coconut Coir for added moisture control. Additional ingredients include sphagnum peat moss, composted rice hulls, composted pine bark, earthworm castings, Dolomite lime, and trace elements. Our soil is Silicon Enriched™ to provide container plants with the same benefits as those grown in the Earth’s soil! Plus, our .2-.05-.1 professional formula contains a slow-release fertilizer to help feed your plants for up to 6 months.
Black Gold® Cactus Mix is also a great choice for your succulent and cacti-themed container garden. This quality blend is made of horticultural grade perlite, pumice, earthworm castings, compost, and bark. Black Gold® Cactus Mix is made specifically for cacti and succulents! It helps provide the proper soil structure and drainage that these drought tolerant plants love.
Fill your container with potting soil, leaving room for your plants.
STEP 2: PLANT SUCCULENTS & CACTI
Pick from our quality selection of succulents and cacti from Fresh From Florida®!
Explore and experiment with the different shapes, sizes, colors, and volume. Choose multiple sizes for the perfect indoor container garden. Select succulents or cacti that are smaller to fill the front of the container and choose tall and dynamic plants to create the focal point.
First, add your taller plant selections to potting soil. Place in the center or towards the back of the container, depending on where your design will be displayed and viewed. For example, your container may be a centerpiece and viewed from all angles, thus the focal point plants could be planted towards the center of the container.
Once planted, now we have our focal point and a dynamic design with a pop of color, texture, and lively shapes. Now it is time to add the smaller succulents to complete the indoor container garden.
Add a few small succulents in similar hues, but different textures to create vibrant movement throughout your container creation. Your indoor container garden is complete! Create a whole display with various sizes of pottery and plants for your desk, shelves, tabletops, and more!
Get creative and make your space stylish with trendy houseplants like succulents and cacti! Plus, they are extremely low maintenance and great indoor plants for beginners.
Your indoor container garden is a step towards promoting wellness in your home! Indoor plants help purify the air and can help lower stress.
POTTERY
With new arrivals every week, you are sure to find the perfect pottery for your indoor garden!
From hand-painted designs to geometric patterns and funky colors, you can mix and match our pottery to fill your home with bright colorful accents.
Looking for durable quality? Explore our premium selection of planters from Bloem®!
Available in a range of sleek styles from trendy mid-century modern designs paired with a metal stand to trio flights, all made from high-quality durable plastic.
SHOP WITH EASE
At Calloway’s and Cornelius, we have convenient ways to shop for your gardening favorites! Shop our open-air stores, shop online, or call our store nearest you and place an order over the phone for Curbside Pickup! Plus, save 20% on all indoor cacti and succulent plants, this SUNDAY (1-10-21 ONLY).
Questions? Call our store nearest you! Our Texas Certified Nursery Professionals are here to help!
