We turned our simple home-made willow cone into a wonderful Succulent Christmas Tree.
This wonderful centrepiece can be used both in the house and garden, and would also make a fabulous original gift.
We used our rustic willow cone as a base for our succulent Christmas tree, but you could just as easily fashion your cone form out of other materials such as chicken wire or a tomato cage.
Succulents come in a huge array of colours and shapes. They are also super hardy and grow happily in all sorts of environments. Our first moss and succulent creation was our gorgeous Chicken Wire, Moss and Succulent Toadstool.
How to Build a Succulent Christmas Tree
We started by lining our cone with moss, and filling the centre with bulb fibre.
And then used a covering of moss and some wire to hold everything in place.
We actually quite like the look of our cone just filled with moss!
Planting our Succulent Christmas Tree
Next we planted our succulents.
We managed to find some succulents at the nursery that had loads of little baby plants. We gently broke the babies off and used a pencil to make a hole to insert them into.
These baby plants don’t have much in the way of roots at present, by succulents are tenacious by nature, so we are hopeful they will soon settle in and take root in their new home.
We had a selection of succulents with different colours and leaf shape, so we tried to dot them around in a pleasing arrangement.
Although succulents are very tolerant of drought conditions we will be keeping our succulent Christmas tree outside in our moist autumn air to give the young plants a chance to grow and root in before bringing it inside for Christmas.
Where we think it’ll make a rather original Christmas feature.
For another unusual way to display your succulents check out our adorable Succulent Hedgehog made out of recycled materials.
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Wow. This succulent Christmas tree is so creative and fun. I love it! Thanks for the tutorial.
I’m so pleased you like it Scarlet. Succulents will grow just about anywhere so they’re such fun to craft with :)
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This succulent christmas tree is so so beautiful! You are so creative, I would have never ever thought of this and I love it!!!
Thank you Katrin, I am having such a love affair with succulents at the moment – everything I look at I wonder if I could grow succulents in it :)
This is the coolest. I loved the rustic willow cone all by itself. But now that you’ve added the moss and succulents I am even more smitten. What is bulb fiber? Just want to make sure if I make this that I do it right. I will probably have to purchase moss, there isn’t much of that around here. And I love the way it looks. The succulents look like hens and chicks, they multiply in their second year, this is going to fill out nicely! So cool!
Thanks Nikki, you are right, they are chicks and hens :) Bulb fibre is just the compost they sell here for planting bulbs in – I’d say its just a coarser version of regular compost, more like a home made one – I used it as I thought the bigger particles would stay in the shape better without any risk of it getting washed out.
This is so creative and a nice departure from traditional Christmas colors and elements. Love this!
Thanks Karen, I’d love to have a totally natural Christmas look this year but cant see the kids going for it – they love the bling look!
You are, as always, amazing. I have become a lover of odd Christmas tree’s. Unfortunantly my family doesn’t share my passion. I love this.
Thank you Kellie :) I hope you are all keeping well xxx
Yes, it is going to be beautifuuuul
Thank you Ana – I had such fun looking around your blog too :)
Oh my Sarah, this is such a beautiful tree and those little baby succulents will definitely be settled by the time Christmas comes. They such rewarding plants. I love this so much, stunning idea
Thank you Michelle, I am currently having a love affair with succulents, not least because the seem to be almost impossible to kill!
Great idea. Especially for those of you lucky enough to have a year around growing season. I could do this in a topiary for the holidays. Very nice.
These succulents seem to cope well with our climate so I’m hoping they will bed in before Christmas – I thought it’d be nice to gift something that can be popped outside after the holidays are over :)