I posted a DIY mini succulent garden in the Gardening forum and would like to share it here as well. Hope others will share pictures of their mini cactus and succulent garden or DIY cactus and succulent garden.

Click on the link below for the mini desert rose and succulent garden and my tabletop succulent centerpiece I made for a friend
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Other mini gardens given as gifts are the following:

Finally, plants I can see actually growing well in coir-lined baskets! Everything else just dries up too fast. I know some people line them with plastic or even with disposable diapers, but I usually avoid them. I have a couple that I've been meaning to throw away; I think I'll see where I've put them.

Could you please post a photo of the really cool way you elevate succulent planters on tomato cages?

Well since I consider most of my cacti and succulents to be in the mini class, I will post some pictures here later when I get out in the garden and take
pictures of lots of my cacti and succulents

@Katesflowers Kathy has the beautiful succulent planters on tomatoe cages

@Willinator they definitely qualify for mini garden and these succulents grow fast and will fill in your garden dish.

Here's a mixed succulent and sedum bowl I made for my friend's Mom:



And my log succulents:




This is a newly put together log succulents, still deciding to add more personality

Beautiful combo pots! I especially like the last 3 rectangle planters!

Tiffany, these held up pretty good. JoAnn Fabrics used to carry these cool pots with drain holes. They are heavy though!

Nice! I love a heavy pot, they stay put better in the wind.

That's true, I don't bring pots indoor.

Most of mine come inside but these are too big to move.

Oh wow Tiffany I've always wanted a miniature fairy garden. I made the big log a miniature fairy garden originally. Then I lost my fairies 🧚‍♀️ when I put them away for the winter. I need to buy new ones. I still have the fairy garden sign

I got to start a miniature garden (just a small one first, an indoor one).

You should! It's fun to watch it morph over time, add things, move 'em around, trim, as the plants change shape and size, just like a full-scale garden. It can be realistic or whimsical, desert or more overgrown, minimal with a single decoration or all junked-up.

You can buy things, make things, steal things from Barbie & Lego. Popsicle stick picnic table & benches lasted about 2 yrs. Clay mushrooms, not quite as long. I don't have any actual fairies but there's a couple of gnomes & a car junkyard, some dinosaurs & other animals, houses, campers, fun stuff.

There are tons of pics in the mini gardening forum on here.

GigiPlumeria said:Oh wow Tiffany I've always wanted a miniature fairy garden. … I still have the fairy garden sign

You have a sign, you're halfway there as I see it 😉

Ann

I will start collecting again! Tiffany, I will start small and post it here and the mini-gardening forum. I actually have a perfect pot with my bonsai jade. I just really need to start with a small dish pan then my outdoor one will be this bonsai jade pot.

Ann!

OK everyone I will post a couple of pictures I took earlier!

two bowls of succulents!

Yeah, that IS a great pot!

Impressive plant, too. I think it may be Portulacaria afra, which seems to be more difficult to keep alive, or maybe just less popular so fewer pics of bigger, older plants, not sure. (vs. regular Jade, Crassula ovata.) I'm more than willing to give 2 thumbs-up to yours either way!

Two bowls of succulents - as good for you as 2 scoops of raisins!

I do have a picture of my Portulacaria in its own pot and it is not in either of the bowls. Here is
the Portulacaria afra variegata