Really, really nice! You have caught the feeling of water around the base, too. It reminds me of water lilies and petals floating.

Beautiful!

Xuan,

Biwako described it perfectly - it's a lovely staging~ !! !~

It looks great! I'm inspired.

I make large bowls full of semps, sedums, and Echeveria, but usually only one species at a time. Combination bowls will look good for only a year or so, and then need some plants trimmed, or removed to other pots. You project is going to keep getting better for at least two-three years, and maybe more. I have a large bowl full of sedum burrito. After seven years, it has trailing branches over 4-feet long ;)

I've seen soupcons of Sedum but never a bowl...

That's pretty. I love that Sedum morganianum.

Thank you very much for your kind compliments.

Xuan

I agree with the above!! It reminds me of water flowing over lillies! Looks gorgeous,.. now to see if you can get a little froggie to live in it!! lol
Christina

Oh, I'm glad you mentioned it Christina. I've bought a few small ceramic toads recently. Maybe I will try to put one in the "bowl" :-o)

Xuan

Xuan-
This is very nice. If it is a house plant, how much sun and water does it require? Is this a tabel top fountian that you turned into potted arrangement? Does the ceramic piece have a drain hole?
Thanks, Pam

Howdy, Xuan! The fountain is lookin' great!

Speakin' of frogs....I found this little fella in my fern yesterday afternoon.
There were three other frogs on the opposite side of the container...

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Gardenlady: Thank you for your compliment.
I'm not an expert of succulents, but from my own experience, these plants do need very bright light and some direct morning sun to bring out their colors.

Currently, I leave this "fountain" on my porch which gets morning sun until 10am and bright light rest of the day.
I made this arrangement out of two separate pieces of ceremic - an "urn" as top and a flat dish as the base. Each has a drainage hole. Also, I use very porous soiless mix with added perlite and vermiculite.

So far I water thoroughly once a week and mist in between (when I'm around). But I guess once a week deep watering would be enough. (The vermiculite is to help retain some moisture during the week I'm not here.)

To make this "fountain", I turned a little plastic pot (4") upside down and placed it in the middle of the flat bowl, covering the drainage hole. But I have made a few cuts on the side of the plastic pot already so as to make sure excess water can get through it down into the drainage hole of the flat bowl. I also placed many gravels around the plastic pot before filling the flat bowl with potting mix so that the mix wouldn't clog the drainage cuttage.

Then I placed the "urn" on top of that plastic pot. The "urn" was filled with many gravels in the bottom to ensure stability as well as to reduce the volume of potting mix.

Next I filled the flat bowl with the soiless potting mix I made, making the soil sloping toward the rim of the bowl. I watered the mix well.

After that I planted the echeverias and sempervivium and sedums. I tried to make sure they looked naturally.

Finally I mulched with pine barks, accented with a few pebbles. My intention was to remove the barks once the sedums spread and cover the surface.

It took me about more than an hour to finish.

I hope my explanation can help you if you want something similar.

greenman: oh ah... that little fella looks so cute! I want one!

Xuan