Succulent Color Wheel Centerpiece
For the rainbow centerpiece, you’ll need:
- 18-inch pot saucer. Mine is terracotta. No worries; drain holes aren't needed. It's so shallow that water simply evaporates.
- Approximately six plants in 4-inch pots for each pie-shaped section.
- Potting soil to fill gaps
Succulents come in all colors
Enjoy browsing and selecting them at your local garden center or online. Here are a few suggested varieties:
Green: sempervivums, aeoniums, Crassula lycopodioes (watch chain)
Blue: echeverias, Senecio repens, Sedeveria ‘Blue Elf’, Pachyveria ‘Glauca’, Kalanchoe tomentosa
Purple: Echeveria ‘Perle von Nurnberg’, Echeveria ‘Neon Breakers’
Red: Sedum rubrotinctum, Peperomia graveolens
Orange: Sedum ‘Firestorm’, Graptosedum ‘California Sunset’, Euphorbia tirucalli‘Sticks on Fire’
Yellow: Sedum adolphii, Crassula ovata ‘Sunset’
Method
Standard color wheel
Remove plants from their nursery pots and arrange according to color. Pack tightly so no soil shows. Place taller plants in the center, shorter around the rim.
Care
Water sparingly. Give your Succulent Color Wheel plenty of bright light so hues stay vibrant.
The red-orange-yellow side of the succulent color wheel.
Find many more types of succulents listed by color in my books.
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How do you water if there is no drainage hole?
Very minimally. Only enough to moisten the roots. When in doubt, don’t.
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What is the taller one in the middle that is green becoming coral pink at the top? It’s beautiful.
It’s Euphorbia tirucalli ‘Sticks on Fire’, commonly called fire sticks. This is a cutting from tip growth; the plant has the potential to become 8 feet tall over time.