Interior Plant Service Creates Decor for Girl’s Baby Shower with Succulents

pinwheels with succulents for baby showerWorking with interior plants, my friends assume that I must also be a florist.  This is flattering, but not the case.  Floristry is an exquisite profession that I have not mastered (but definitely something I may peruse in the future).

Anyways, when a best friend asked me to help decorate for her baby shower I was thrilled to put my creative touch on a room filled with lots of pink and girliness.   Although, since I was not using cut flowers as center pieces, I turned to my trusty succulent plants!pin-wheels with succulents for baby shower

As a busy and practical person, I saw one of the main advantages of using succulents as center pieces was their resiliency.  Succulents could be planted well in advance and would sit pretty for weeks or months before the event!  This is not the case with cut flowers.  Succulents were obviously the best answer!

I used grey clay pots that I had in my garage. Rose-colored reindeer moss to add a pop of soft girliness and of course pinwheels to keep in the baby shower theme.  Making the pinwheels was something I was also able to do in advance.  I used a great step by step website to create these adorable decorations.

Who knows, maybe ENVIRONMENTS BY MIKO needs to add party decorating to it’s list of services.  An Interior Plant Service Business with Interior Party Decor Services!  I like the sound of it!

Other fun decor ideas we incorporated into the party, as well as a pic of the Mama-to-be shown below:

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Low Maintenance Easy Design Tips with Succulents in Exterior Containers

Succulent-fountain.jpgSucculents are your best friend if you live in Orange County and are looking for a low maintenance plant.  They are versatile and can live in almost any type of container with very little water.

Here is a picture of a Succulent Fountain we planted about 3 months ago.  It does not have a lot of root space or soil, but it does have drainage holes (drilled).  The plants are thriving and by not having a lot of root space, the Kalanchoe thyrsiflora (aka Flapjacks) has turned red and the Crassula ‘Campfire’ is blooming and sprawling all over.  We water this succulent fountain once a week and check for insects regularly.  So far, it has been insect-free and is in full sun by the coast.

Make your boring containers pop by planting succulents around the Succulents to underplant a shrubbase of your tree, shrub or this bird of paradise plant!  It’s one of the easiest and most cost effective transformations you can make to your container plants.  This once boring bird of paradise is now a focal point in the garden.  We took different shades and sizes of succulents with the same basic shape (rosette) and planted them all the way around at the base.  In this container we planted Aeonium zwartkopp, Aeonium urbicum, Aeonium kiwi and Sedum clavatum.  Have fun with it, but it’s best to have a plan.  Either stick to a color theme and/or shape theme.

Succulent plants in exterior containerThis next exterior succulent container was planted as a flat container landscape in a pot.  As I said before, you should always have a ‘plan.’  In this plan, we used the color of the purple Echiveria to create an ‘S’ shape down the center of the round pot and then we build around the ‘S’ with a similar Echiveria in blue with Jade ‘golem’ around the outside for some contrast.  Picking only three species of succulent and repeating them creates a modern design and look.  Creating a living succulent design can be that easy!

My final tip to create a dramatic succulent container garden is to create something spectacular and repeat it!  As you can see these matching tall vase planters have virtually the same succulents planted in each container.  They are lining the entry way to this home in Newport Beach, CA.  As you walk up, you can’t help but notice the color, shapes and texture of these interesting plants.  Best part, is their low maintenance and year-round interest!
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