I visited the flagship Terrain in Glen Mills a few years ago click for my tour. This pumpkinesque gray pot was stuffed with mums, a grass, coleus, and agastache, with a papyrus seedhead for decoration. One wall was turned into living wallpaper with pillowy mosses, ferns, and woody vines, all surrounding a stone fireplace with candelabra light above. Succulent pumpkins β where succulents are hot-glued to a bit of dried moss atop a small, flattish pumpkin β have been popular for years, and many variations were on display.
This one included colored moss and seedheads and a lotus seedpod spray-painted gold. The classic orange pumpkin with succulents is my favorite. These are easy to make, actually. When I got home from my trip, feeling inspired, I bought a sack of mini-pumpkins at the grocery store and a few dried florals at a craft store tiny pinecones, small sticks with berries, and stems with tiny purple flowers , snipped cuttings from ghost plant Graptopetalum paraguayense I grow at home, and collected dry ball moss from my yard.
I used hand pruners to cut off the pumpkin stem, without cutting into the flesh of the pumpkin, which could cause it to rot prematurely. Then I used a hot-glue gun to spread a circle of glue around the cut stem.
Then I hot-glued floral stems, topping those with the succulent cutting. To fill in gaps around the base of the succulent, I hot-glued tiny pinecones and extra berries. I even made a few stacked-pumpkin towers with a bit of moss, dried flowers, and pinecones around the edges, topped with a tiny pinecone and berries. I gave these out as gifts and kept a trayful for my dining table. Easy and fun! When it was time for Christmas decor to go up, I pulled apart the pumpkins and put them in the compost bin.
The succulents were still healthy and firm, even after a month glued to a pumpkin with no water or soil gotta love succulents! Need design help with your yard?
