for me and that is how I plant succulents. Now, I show an Instagram often cards I'm making

and such. But I also show my collection of succulents and cactus often. I get so many

questions on how I plant these succulents because I have told people how easy it is.

So, I thought I would finally just do a video showing it. This is how I do it. It may not

be the best way, but this is how I have found works really well. Now, I have another video

where I create cute little tags that go inside succulents that you may give as gifts. Which

you see here in these little succulents. If you click here it will take you to the video

where I show you how to do those. It's a little bit more of a crafty video. Or you can look

at the YouTube description below for a link to take you to that video. Little succulents

like this make a great gift and they are inexpensive and you can add some crafty touches to it.

Now, here is my big disclaimer. I am not an expert, by any means, on this subject. I have

just done this on my own. Kind of figured it out what works for me. I thought if it

works for me, it might work for you too. I keep it very simple. So, if you really want

to learn the right way to do all this, please do some YouTube searches or whatever and I'm

sure there's a lot of great information out there. But, this is how I plant my succulents

and it works really well. So, I'm hoping it will work for you to. So, let's go ahead and

talk about the few things that you need to do this. The first that you need is a container

of some sort. A little pot, a little tea cup, whatever. It's actually better to have a hole

in the bottom, because you don't want your succulents to hold too much water. They don't

like a lot of water, but I tend to ignore that rule and just use whatever I think is

cute. I'll share some tricks in a moment on how you can keep from over watering your plants.

So, pick out a container, preferably with a hole in the bottom. But really, you just

want something cute. Next you'll need some soil. I'm going to show you what the bag looks

like. It's a cactus or succulents soil. It's very easy to find actually. I know that you

can get it from big stores or even Amazon. So, you just want to make sure that you have

that, because the plants will grow so much better if you do have this particular kind of

soil. When I plant my succulents I like to have rocks. Like little tiny pebbles. That

are good for nice finishing touch and also help in case you get too much water in your

plant. You don't have to have this. But, I think it really adds a lot to your planted

succulent. Last, but not least, you need some succulents or cactus. Now, there are many

varieties out there. Some are easier to grow than others. You could do the research about

that. But me, I just get what appeals to me and I hope for the best. Now, I get my succulents

at a local florist shop. Or you can get them at a Home Depot or Lowes. Even on Etsy. You

can get some unique ones on Etsy.com where people will ship them to your house. I'll

link to that below also. Now that we've covered a little bit about what you need I'm going

to go ahead and show you all these things as I do some planting. So I have this cute

little cup that I believe I go from West Elm. It's just a tiny little cup. I'm going to

put some bigger river pedals. They are little rocks that I bought on Amazon in the bottom.

This is in case I have too much water when I put water this someday. If I put too much

water, the water can settle at the bottom and not hurt the roots of the plant. Now here

is the soil I use. It's an Organic Cactus Mix. I get mine on Amazon. A little goes a

long way here. So this container will last you for a while. I just fill my pot up almost

full with the soil. This will compress some, but we need to have room to stick our succulent

in also. So I got this little guy at my local florist. I think he's just adorable. I'm going

to pull apart the roots just a little bit and just stuff him in there. Succulents are

very forgiving. They don't have too many roots. So, I just put it in there and I've never

had a problem with it. Now, to give it a finished look, I'm going to put some of those same

pebbles on the top. This kind of covers up the soil and presses it in and gives it a

nice finished look. There. See how easy that is. So easy. And this guy is ready to go.

Now, here is a very important tip with succulents. You don't want to over water them. They don't

like to be very wet. The trick that I have found with watering succulents and cactuses

is to use ice. So I would put a small ice cube on this guy. Once, maybe every other

week, I put a reminder on my calendar to water it. I put, probably, about a half of an ice

cube in here and just let it melt and that's all the water it needs. It's a great way to

keep it from flooding your little succulent. Okay now I wanted to show you how I did this

big guy too. Just so you can see how I put a couple different plants in one. So I have

this big container. I got it off of Etsy. I just think it is so cute. And I'll link

to that below my YouTube description and over on my blog. Now, I want to fill up this bottom

with some empty space. I don't need this to be full of dirt. So what I do is I take my

containers and I put them down there crunched up just as filler. I do this with my outside

plants too. This way you don't have to waste a punch of soil to fill up this deep deep

pot. So, now that I've got that in there I am going to go ahead and fill this up with

that cactus soil that I showed you earlier. Really that spacer in the bottom, those empty

little containers, save a lot room. Also, if you put too much water in here, that will

keep it from sitting on your roots of your plants. Okay, so here is an aloe plant. These

are very easy to grow and they are very big. So, I'm going to put him in there. I kind

of pulled his roots apart and I'm going to stuff him in there. Now I'm not going to push

it too much, because I still have to put some other plants in here. So, I just want to make

sure that I do have soil all around the side. Even though this guy is kind of being pushed

to the back. So, I’m going to add some more soil in there. It's time to come in with some

other plants. This is another little guy I found at my florist. I just thought he was

cute. I have no idea how he'll do in here, but I'll give him a lot of love and hopefully

he'll make it. Then I'm going to come in and stuff a little more dirt around that. Again,

it's that same soil. You can see that this is pretty quick to do. Now, I'm going to come

in and stuff another succulent over on the other side. I've found that I can put these

in pretty close to each other, because their roots don't grow too much. Pots outside you

need to have some space for them to grow. But these guys don't grow a huge amount. So,

you can put lots in close to each other. So, now that I've pushed them all in there and

added dirt all around them until I feel like they are pretty secure in there. I'm going

to go head and add some pebbles. This time I'm using little pebbles that I believe are

meant for an aquarium. These are much smaller. So I use a scoop to kind of pour them in there

and kind of fill in all the areas. I use a dry paint brush to brush away any dirt that

is sitting on my succulents from when I'm doing this, because I tend to be kind of messy

when I do this. So, having a dry brush nearby is also helpful. So, I'm just going to go

head and fill up all of the surface with these little pebbles. You don't have to put these

on here. But I think it really gives it a nice finished touch and these pebbles are

very inexpensive. I could use the large rocks, but sometimes I just like these little guys.

I think they're really cute. You can get them in fun colors even. So you could have even

neon little pebbles if you wanted to. And that's it. That's all I did for this big guy.

I just set them in an area that has lots of sun. So you want to put this in front of a

big window or something. Because the more sun they get the better they do. So that is

the simple way that I go about planting my cactus. I have these filling my craft room

and I really love them. Now, again, if you want to learn how to create little tags to

put in your succulents if you want to give them as gifts, you can click here to see the

video where I show you how to make these little tags here. Or you can look at my YouTube description

where I have a link to the video. If you’re interested in the products I use I link them

all below in my YouTube description. To the exact soils and rocks that I use. Or you can

go over to my blog jennifermcguireink.com where I will have much more information. Thanks

for watching a little different video for me today and I hope you'll come back soon.