An article with a detailed description and step-by-step photos of composing a composition from cacti and succulents. Video on how to make a planter and pot. Are you running out of space on your windowsill? Are there a lot of sand plants scattered all over the windows and they have no aesthetic appearance? There is a way out - make compositions from the cactus family. Collect several species in one bowl, and you will see how their appearance will change. From the many separately growing, you will get several beautiful compositions of cacti and succulents.
Cacti, sharp scissors or pruning shears, earth, drainage, a bowl, potassium permanganate, water and fantasy are all you need when composing a composition.
Consider the step-by-step instructions for composing a composition from cacti:
1. We collect all our cacti and succulents, free them from old pots and soil, look through all the roots and the body of the cactus itself. If there are rotten spots, carefully trim or remove them.
Separately, we make a solution of potassium permanganate and water to disinfect our thorny plants. To do this, dissolve several crystals of potassium permanganate in warm water (35–40 ° C), and place our thorny plants in our solution for a while. After 15–20 minutes we take out our handsome men, put them on the newspaper and let them dry.
2. Prepare the container for our composition. For most species, a shallow wide pot is suitable, in this case we use a bowl. At the bottom of the bowl we put expanded clay for our drainage. The drainage should be 3-4 centimeters high. Add a little earth on top and make grooves for planting our plants, having thought over the appearance of the composition in advance. Do not forget to combine cacti and succulents with the same lighting and care needs.
3. Planting cacti and succulents. Plants can be planted in two ways: each cactus in a separate pot, using a bowl as a planter, or planting directly into the ground. This choice is up to you.
If the planting takes place in separate pots in a bowl, then we expose our pots with already planted cacti according to the conceived plan, and sprinkle the container with earth between the pots, and on top you can use different stones, shells or colored glass.
Landing directly into the ground occurs in a slightly different way. Our "thorns" and succulents are planted in the previously prepared holes for the plants, sprinkled with earth on top and tamped lightly with your fingers. On top of the earth, if desired, sprinkle with stones, shells or polished glass.
4. The final stage is watering and lighting the compositions after planting. After planting, transplanting or transshipment, cacti are not watered or exposed to a sunny place. Place your composition in partial shade for a few days. Then, instead of watering, you can spray with small drops so that there are not drops, but water dust. And in a week you can put it in a sunny place.
Such compositions of cacti and succulents will pleasantly delight your eye not only on the window sill, but also in any illuminated place in your room.
