Thrift Store Indoor Succulents

I don’t know about you guys, but I have a serious love affair with succulents. I also happen to have a love affair with thrift stores, so when I can combine those two things it is pure bliss!

I have been wanting to plant a bunch of succulents around my house for a long time now, but finally did it this week because I am hosting a bridal shower for my best girlfriend on Friday. Since I can’t seem to keep most indoor plants alive for the life of me, I am hoping that will change with these succulents {please, God, let that change!}

I started by collecting some fun pots and containers of sorts from my local Goodwill. Since I have been kinda lazy and only going to the one right by my house, my good finds are more few and far between. I wanted this collection to be kinda random, but still cohesive:

The next stop was Home Depot. Costco also sells succulents for a great price, but they didn’t have as much of a variety, or have the smaller individual ones like I wanted. Home Depot was awesome in variety and the small ones were only $2, and the big ones were $4! I loved that I was able to pick and match whatever ones I wanted.

I also picked up a small bag of Cactus/Palm soil, since the workers there said that is by far the best for succulents. I also picked up a bottle of super glue to help out my brass container I got at Goodwill. I knew this thing didn’t have drain holes, and I wasn’t sure of how tight the seal was to prevent leaking- so I figured better safe than sorry.

Once home I grabbed some of my rocks from the yard and went to town planting!

After reading around and asking some succulent veterans, I followed the rock and soil method. Especially for any container I was using that didn’t have drain holes, but even for the ones that did- I first added rocks to the bottom, and then the cactus soil on top, and finally the succulents:

And there you have it! Now lets just pray that I can keep these babies alive! If you have any other tips for me I am ALL ears!! I plan on watering them a couple times a week, basically making sure the soil is completely dry before watering again. I have high hopes:)

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