I went to Lowe's and Wal-Mart and bought some succulents. I bought some that were on their own and some that were already in little gardens. I DO NOT recommend buying the ones in the gardens because it turns out that translates to over-cramped and having rocks glued on top of them. Not cool.
But, one bonus of the pre-made gardens is you get to keep the cool pots they come in. I also bought the little red amoeba looking things. It turns out they were just a pot of lies. I'm not exactly sure what they are, but they aren't succulents, they were little rootless plants HOT GLUED to some sponge moss. That was upsetting, but at least I got to keep the cute little pots.
For the life of me I couldn't find a wire wreath form so I made my own from two wire clothes hangers and floral wire. I don't recommend this, at all. Find the energy to brave Michael's or some other craft store and actually find a wreath form because this was a pain in the butt.
The first attempt I just followed the instructions and patted in the sphagnum moss into the frame and wrapped the floral wire around it. I could tell this wasn't going to work. There was dirt everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. But I decided to keep going anyway and added the succulents in anyway and this is what I got.
I nervously hung it on the door and it slumped under the weight, the succulents started falling off, and left dirt on the door...
And the floor...
So I took that down and thought about it over night and tried again the next day. I pulled out the coconut mesh from one of my planters and cut a X in the middle of it so I could wrap it around the wreath form and sphagnum moss. I closed it with floral wire and then "sewed" it together on the back to make sure as much of the back was covered with the coconut mesh as possible. This is what the front looked like after I was finished. Much better!
I added the succulents again and they were much more secure and I was even able to add the bigger succulents this time. I need a lot more succulents to be able to finish the whole thing and I suggest to anyone trying this project to invest in succulents that grow out instead of up.
Although I'm not entirely happy with the wreath as a whole, I do like the groupings individually. Like this one:
And this one, I like the little bubble like succulents.
And this one- I love the black succulent.
And this one- it reminds me of a pineapple.
I hope this was helpful to anyone that wants to do this project, and if not, feel free to ask me any questions!
My next project: re-doing the kitchen table and chairs. The table is going to be painted the bottom blue color and each of the chairs is going to be one of the other color. Hopefully it will look cute and not crazy, because when I grow up, I want to do a lot of crafts.
