Awesome DIY Easy Indoor Succulent Garden Ideas (How to Plant in Rocks)

Sharing my tips & tricks for how to plant an easy & AWESOME DIY indoor succulent garden ideas in rocks planted in a stone trough with where to buy succulents & how to care tips with step by step instructions & pictures!

Awesome DIY Indoor Succulent Garden in Rocks

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There is nothing that has me longing more for Spring gardening than the dark cold and rainy days of winter. 

I have been missing gardening so much that I decided to make an indoor succulent garden for our coffee table with 3 of the plants I brought home.

Supplies & Tools Needed to Make an Indoor Succulent Garden

• 3 Succulents (3 different varieties)
• a stone or concrete trough
• coffee filter
• potting soil & small trowel
• small rocks for drainage & large rock accents
• moss as an accent

Where to Buy Succulents Cheap for an Indoor Succulent garden?

After a quick trip to Lowes for some tile for our laundry room, I came home with a few succulents to plant. 

Isn’t that always the way? 

There was a whole table of houseplants on clearance and I came home with 6 for under $10. 

Lowes, Home Depot & Ikea are great places to find hearty succulents & houseplants at a reasonably cheap price.

I have had this concrete planter or trough for a long time now and since it was empty I decided it was the perfect planter for an indoor succulent garden. 

You can find a similar planter on Amazon.

Step By Step Instructions for How to Plant an Indoor Succulent Garden

Step ONE – Collect your Supplies & Add a Coffee Filter to the Bottom of your Stone Trough or Concrete Planter

Since there is a drainage hole in the concrete planter I added a coffee filter to help keep the dirt from spilling out.

Step TWO – Add Small Pebbles for Drainage

I added small pebbles or stones from our garden to help with drainage.

It is so important for the soil of succulents or any potted plant to drain.

Step THREE – Add Succulents & Accent Rocks

After placing the 3 succulent plants in the spots I chose I added a few accent rocks to help keep them in place.

The accent rocks also add texture & interest to our indoor succulent garden.

Step FOUR – Add Potting Soil & Moss to Finish off the Indoor Succulent Garden

I filled the rest of the concrete planter with potting soil and topped it off the a little bit of moss to cover the exposed potting soil.

The indoor succulent garden looks beautiful on our living room coffee table. 

I love the pop of color it gives to our farmhouse living room.

This little indoor garden and a few new houseplants was just the thing to help me get over my longing for Spring (well, at least for a few days.

I hope this inspires you & answers all your questions of how to start an indoor succulent garden to your home!

by Tara Lehman

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