Every year, succulent compositions are gaining more and more popularity in design. These unpretentious exotic plants suitable for everyone who wants to decorate the interior in a lively and original way. Due to its unpretentious care, beautiful shapes and wide colors succulents have become an indispensable decorative element for designers.

The role of succulents in design decisions

A rare design does without living elements - plants. Unfortunately, flowers are difficult to care for. Often due to lack of light, insufficient watering or wrong temperature regime houseplants perish, and without them the decor becomes incomplete.

Interior decoration with succulents, due to their unpretentious care, opened up new horizons for designers. These plants are multifaceted, differing not only in the size and shape of the leaves, but also in color and texture. In addition, there are flowering species that make the decor look fresh.

There are many ways to use succulents in your home. The most common ones are:

1. Phyto paintings from succulents. Plants are planted in the ground, which is placed in a deep frame, and hung on the wall. Such a composition is watered from a spray bottle without difficulty.
2. An alternative to phyto painting is a panel made of artificial (dried) succulents... It is arranged in narrow frames and does not need maintenance, and due to the properties of this type of plant, it will delight the eyes of the owners for a long time.
3. Arrangements of succulents in pots... Interior décor doesn't have to be flashy. Plants are also pleasing to the eye in simple pots, the main thing is to correctly compose and choose a suitable place in the house.

To make succulents in the interior look beautiful and delight the owners, you need to follow the rules for decorating and caring for plants.

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Interior design ideas

The variety of succulents often dazzles the eyes, and good ideas do not form into one perfect. To understand what kind of plants will take place in the future interior of your dreams, it will not be shameful to spy on the projects of designers on the Internet, take into account all the pros and cons of each of them.

One of the simplest ways to make your little home garden unique is with pot mixes. By combining small vessels, you can create whole compositions, and it is more convenient to care for plants planted one by one.

It is not difficult to make a picture of succulents with your own hands. The avant-garde nature of such a decor item scares some novice designers, but in practice the process does not take more than a few hours, and the result will delight the eye for many years.

Mini potted garden

One of the simplest ways to design succulents is to plant them in one large pot. So that such a composition does not look too mundane, you have to get out.

Succulent mini-gardens are becoming more popular every year. How do they differ from ordinary plants planted in the soil? In addition to the many varieties of succulents, special decorative elements from specialized stores are used for decoration. As a result, the planted flowers resemble a small corner of nature on a shelf. Due to the specificity of the succulent family, they are often used to create indoor "rock gardens".

Florarium

The florarium is a transparent vessel that is open to the outside world on only one side. Such flower pots are more like aquariums, but due to the presence of walls, the succulent garden looks voluminous.

It is better to plant moisture-loving succulents in florariums, because holes in the bottom are not made in such vessels, and water evaporates from the soil much more slowly. But the plants in the glass receive some protection from the sun's rays, so such a composition can be placed in more illuminated places.

Horizontal compositions

Succulents and cacti look no less charming in small wooden boxes or other flat containers. The size of such an impromptu pot allows you to create large compositions, build images from plants or transform them into small ones. play areas for kids.

Wall panels and paintings

Paintings and panels made of succulents are considered the most difficult to make, but in fact, working with them is sometimes even easier than with florariums. The vertical arrangement does not prevent flowers from growing and developing over the years.

Live paintings diversify and highlight the design, so before moving on to the version of the panel with artificial plants, it is better to work on the real ones. It's not that hard with correct selection ground and frame depth.

A succulent painting implies that the plants remain alive throughout their entire life cycle. Due to the ability of this species to exist in rough, rocky soil, the soil is easily held upright.

Despite the weak root system, succulents hold well in the frame, and due to the absence of the need for abundant watering, the soil can simply be irrigated with a spray bottle.

If the option with live plants turned out to be unsuitable, you can make a composition from artificial ones. This process is much simpler, and such a thing looks no less impressive in the interior. Due to the fact that artificial or dried plants are used in the manufacture, not only a rectangular panel is used in the design, but also of any other shape - after all, the soil is glued and varnished, so it does not need to keep in the frame on its own.

How to create a composition with your own hands

In order for a corner of succulents to appear in an apartment, it is not necessary to call a designer or florist. Settle these unpretentious plants in a pot you can do it yourself. You can decorate and transform a composition of cacti and succulents as your heart desires, even without having any special tools at hand.

Basic layout principles

There are no restrictions in the design of the future living area, except for those dictated by the general style of the apartment and the taste of the creator, but you should be careful with the selection of plants. There are a number useful tips, which are worth remembering before starting the creative process:

1. If you want to create a unique composition, it is best to use a rectangular, white painted vessel. In such a container, all attention will be paid to the succulents and decorations inside the pot, and not to himself.
2. When working with vertical compositions, the main thing is to cover the root collar with soil. From above, you can lay and even glue stones, decor and pieces of brick - this will not harm the plant.
3. If the decision was made to plant succulents in a glass vase, you must definitely take care of how the moisture will evaporate. If the bud is too wet, the root system will quickly rot and the plants will die.
4. It is best to keep living pictures of succulents for the first time (at least 2-3 months) in a horizontal position, so that the plants get stronger and get used to the new environment. Only then can the resulting decor element be turned over and hung.

It's not a shame to look at the ideas of compositions on the Internet. In any case, it is impossible to repeat such a work, therefore every work with succulents is a work of art.

Which plants are better to use

To create flower arrangements, you can pick up any plants, but it is best to use cacti and succulents. They are in perfect harmony with each other, are picky about care and add a certain amount of exoticism and piquancy to the interior.

In no case should you add various mosses to succulents. They retain moisture on the surface, and it damages the throat of the plant's root system.

Decorative ferns and crotons look good in the composition. Compared to small succulents, they look gigantic, but they add volume to the composition.

Alocasias work well for creating a tropical look. This plant looks like a large water lily on a long stem and, due to its unusual appearance, refreshes any composition.

What can be planted with what

Despite the fact that succulents do not require anxious care, only compatible subspecies of this family can be planted together. It is imperative to pay attention to the following factors:

1. Plants must grow in similar climatic conditions... You can not plant moisture-loving succulents with cacti in the same pot, which cannot tolerate abundant watering.
2. Do not plant large plants with miniature ones. The root system of large succulents will simply suffocate the roots of small ones, and they will quickly die.
3. Do not plant close flowering and non-flowering plants. The former require much more nutrients during flowering, and because of this, succulents without flowers may simply not be enough.

The choice of capacity and substrate

Anything can serve as a pot for a future composition - from wooden box fancy shape to a planter specially prepared for succulents. The main thing is to remember that there must be holes in the bottom of the vessel for excess moisture.

The most popular containers for succulents at the moment are:

1. Florariums or small aquariums, glass vases.
2. Deep frames for wall compositions.
3. Cache-pot.
4. Loft style pots made from old boxes wooden boxes and other things.

How to plant plants

You need to plant succulents for design in the same way as in ordinary pots on the windowsill, but taking into account the characteristics of the place and vessel.

If you decide to plant flower arrangements in a cup or other unusual vessel without holes in the bottom, you need to make them yourself, or choose a more moisture-loving subspecies of succulents for planting.

When working with vertical compositions, the main thing is to allow the plant to take root, to strengthen its roots in the ground. From above, the soil must be pressed down and strengthened. Stones are best suited for this. They can be glued to the sides of the vessel and to each other for durability.

If the future composition will be in dark places of the apartment, you need to pick up special plants for it. Leaving succulents without light can quickly destroy them. At the same time, some subspecies of this plant can live comfortably in dark corners.

Use of decorative elements

There are many ways to make your composition unique, and using additional elements decor is one of them. You can make them yourself, buy them in specialized stores, or find suitable household items.

Sand decoration is the most economical and effective way to create a composition of succulents. Imitation of desert dumps, a rock garden and just drawing are just a few of possible options... Sand opens up a huge scope for creativity.

Florist, aquarist and creative shops sell a variety of miniature items that can be used to create compositions. Small houses, trees, animals and even little people will help make a real work of art out of a simple pot of flowers.

Subtleties of care

Caring for succulents in decor is no more difficult than for plants in a pot. You just need to take into account those special conditions that you have created, for example:

In order to create your own composition of succulents, you do not need step by step recipe. Creative process does not tolerate restrictions, and working with this type of plant contributes to the lack of boundaries. The only thing to be considered is the biological limitations of the succulents themselves, which are extremely undemanding. The rest of the designer is limited only by his imagination.

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Creating and growing gardens is an interesting and rewarding activity. Grow a garden or equip private plot not everyone can do it. It takes skill, practice, time and effort. Easier to create DIY miniature potted garden... This type of ornamental gardening is very popular. The creation of a mini-garden will not take time and effort, but it will bring pleasure from work and the joy of contemplating one's own creation.

An inexperienced gardener can start with a DIY mini garden of cacti and succulents. It is not difficult to create compositions from succulents with your own hands.

These plants get along well with each other, unpretentious and require minimal care... In order for a mini-potted garden to retain its original structure for a long time, it is necessary to select varieties that grow at the same rate.

Preparing for landing

Making a mini-garden in a pot with your own hands requires preparation. For this you need:

• choose a place;
• think over the composition;
• pick up a pot or other container;
• choose plants;
• prepare soil and drainage;
• pick up decor.

Seat selection

Estimate the distance from which the garden will open in all its glory. The greater the distance, the larger the composition should be.

Cacti and succulents love the sun... Need a direct sunlight for two hours a day, no less. With a lack of light, the stems of plants are bent.

If the garden is planned to be placed not on the windowsill, then it is necessary to be guided by the rule: the less light, the lower the temperature and drier the soil should be.

Gallery: mini-garden of cacti and succulents (25 photos)

Composition

The type of garden depends on the location. If the sides look the same, create circular composition in the form of a small slide... If the gaze falls from above, then a flat "lawn" structure will do.

The composition of low succulents looks beautiful different shapes and colors.

Suitable for a garden on a windowsill asymmetric version with plants of different heights.

The style of the composition can be different. It is interesting to create a mini-park, lay sandy paths, put benches and toys. You can depict a desert landscape using yellow sand and cacti, or you can create a fabulous winter forest from succulent trees and snow-white decorative sand.

When choosing a pot, the size of the roots must be taken into account. Cacti and succulents grow well in small bowls and on dishes.

Gardens look harmonious, where the height of the pot is a third of the height of the composition. However, even in a high ceramic pot, a unique landscape is created if a large piece is beaten off from one side, and ledges of a mountain cascade are made from its shards.

Cascading composition build by placing one in the other pots of different diameters.

Mini-gardens look great in transparent round vessels, earthenware and porcelain dishes. Use containers made of plastic, wood and wicker baskets. The main thing is to provide for the presence of holes or a thick drainage layer, since the roots of succulents and cacti do not tolerate waterlogging of the soil.

The outer walls of the pots can be additionally decorated, but the color of the decor should have neutral shades. This will accentuate the vibrancy of the flowers in the garden itself.

Plant selection

Suitable for a mini-garden slow growing varieties. Cacti with flowers and succulents with small leaves are considered ideal.

The rocky garden will look like cacti, stone roses, haworthia and sedum.

Among the stones on miniature ones, dense pachyphytum, ovoid pachyphytum and gasteria feel great.

If a succulent garden is decorated in a park style, then central element – Money Tree or aeonium tree-like. An excellent accent in the composition of undersized succulents will be bracts pachyphytum.

A mixed garden of cacti and succulens is not recommended to be planted. For flowering, cacti need a cool and dry wintering. With frequent winter watering, the tops of cacti stretch out, and flowers become a rarity. In succulents, prolonged dryness can cause leaf fall. Instead of cacti, strapelia are added to the succulent composition, which are very similar to cacti and bloom with large flowers in the shape of stars.

Any cacti for a garden in a pot will do. Cacti look great different sizes and forms with flowers of the same shade. Ideally, each specimen is best left in an individual plastic pot with drainage holes. This will prevent root entanglement. It will always be possible to easily remove a diseased plant and replace it with a new one. They choose those cacti that grow slowly, give few children and bloom beautifully. Echinofossulocactus, astrophytums and hymnocalycium are suitable for planting. Mammillaria and chamecerius Selvestra look good.

Soil and drainage

To create a composition in a pot, you need to purchase a special soil or compose it yourself. A substrate of equal parts of leaf humus and sand with small additives is well suited charcoal and expanded clay.

Expanded clay is more often used as drainage, but when planting in a transparent glass vessel, decorative pebbles and coarse sand are used. In such a drainage, recesses are made for the soil so that it is not visible through the transparent walls of the pots.

Decor

Cacti and succulents go well with natural materials... Suitable for any composition:

• pebbles;
• seashells;
• pebbles;
• dry twigs;
• bumps.

The composition will be decorated with colored sand powder and decorative elements from glass.

For a garden in a landscape style, you will need small ceramic tiles, miniature doll furniture, toys and artificial flowers.

Planting and caring for a mini garden

Succulents are planted freely, at fairly large intervals. This is necessary so that when they grow, they do not interfere with the development of neighboring plants. Cacti can be planted tightly, but it is better to choose an individual small container for each plant.

Prepare planters, supplies and tools. Before starting planting, rinse the pot and pallet. Used containers and natural elements must be scalded, sand must be calcined.

Landing

Landing steps:

1. Drainage is laid at the bottom of the container - pebbles, sand, expanded clay and tamped tightly. The drainage layer is 15-25% of the volume of the pot, but it can be more if planting is done in a pots without holes.
2. Sprinkle potting soil.
3. Plants are planted. Root system it is necessary to carefully spread it and sprinkle it with soil, without falling asleep on the root collar. There is no need to water the plants immediately after planting. This should be done after 2-3 days.
4. Pour in decorative powder. Small pebbles, expanded clay and coarse sand will not only decorate the composition, but also protect it from overheating in the bright sun.
5. They decorate the garden with large decorative elements.

Care

It is not difficult to care for miniature plants. Compositions of cacti and succulents, with correct fit and after care, will serve unchanged for 2-3 years. Water the garden carefully and regularly. This is best done from a drip tray or spray can. It is necessary to direct the stream to the large stones of the decor so that the water gradually flows down to the soil and does not violate its structure.

Arrangements of cacti require a dormant period in winter. A succulent garden in summer should be in a brightly lit place, and in winter it is better to move it to partial shade. If direct sunlight rarely gets into the mini-garden even in summer, it is better to choose plants that tolerate partial shade well: bearberry, gorse, haworthia and green-leaved gastria.

Despite the optimal selection, the mini-garden of succulents still grows after a while. Transplants and corrections will be required. This is an exciting and exciting work. It evokes a flight of fantasy and develops Creative skills... The mini-kindergarten will delight you for a long time.

Gone are the days when phytodesigners acted according to the principle “each plant has its own pot”. Nowadays, indoor plant design is approached more creatively and closer to nature - they are used to create compositions that imitate a piece of nature. Indeed, in fact, you are unlikely to meet a single plant in the wild. They always grow in groups. So why not do it in your home too. For large halls and offices from large plants they create compositions in large flower girls, and for apartments and small rooms they make miniature compositions in bowls that can be used to decorate coffee table, a mantelpiece or even put on your desktop.

It is not difficult to make such a composition. You just need to observe a few simple rules and then your work will delight you for a long time.

1. The composition in a bowl is not durable. No matter how you cut the plants growing in them, sooner or later, they become too large and they will have to be transplanted into another container, and another plant should be planted in their place;
2. Usually a bowl is used to compose the composition - a low, flat container with a drainage hole. The use of a container without a drainage hole is permissible only if the composition is composed of cacti or other succulent plants that require a minimum of watering. If there is no hole, excess water from irrigation will accumulate at the bottom of the container and sooner or later will lead to root rot. Therefore, no matter how beautiful the container is, if there is no hole in it and it is impossible to make it, it is better to look for something else for the composition;
3. In order for the composition to retain its attractive appearance for a long time and its constituent plants to feel normal, it is necessary for it to select plants with the same or similar requirements for. For example, if you plant a cactus in one container, then either the cactus will rot from excessive watering, or the fern will disappear from the excessive dryness of the soil. But if you make a composition from some cacti (and they are very diverse in shape) or from cacti and succulents (, haworthia, etc.) that require the same care, the plants can exist together for a long time. It is also worth considering the requirements for the soil of the plants. You can not combine in one pot, Sambuc jasmine, preferring acidic soils with those living on alkaline soils. For the composition, it is necessary to select plants growing on similar soils;
4. If, nevertheless, there is a need to combine plants with different care requirements in one container, they should not be planted together, but should be dripped directly into the pot so that excess moisture cannot get to their roots. In the example of palm, fern and cactus, it is the cactus that should be buried in the ground along with the pot;
5. Only beautiful ones should be used for composition, healthy plants... The simplest and most readily available material for them is the so-called mixes - Dutch sets of medium-sized plants, 15 pcs per box, which are often sold in flower shops. We have these plants from such sets are often sold inexpensively at retail. Among them, you can easily pick those that are suitable for your composition.

How to select and arrange plants

When composing a composition, it is necessary to choose a plant - a soloist. The largest and most interesting plant in texture, which is planted in the center or most often moves slightly from the center to the edge of the container. Around it should be planted shorter plants and closer to the edge of the ground cover or ampelous plants, which will cover the free soil and additionally decorate the composition, hanging from the edge of the bowl.

In order to less injure the plants, it is better, without pulling them out of the pots, to carefully place them in a bowl, picking up the best option landing. And only when you decide on where which plant should be located, you can start the planting itself.

Landing

Pour a layer on the bottom of the bowl. If the pot does not have a drainage hole, the layer of expanded clay should be larger. We put a small layer of sand on the expanded clay and only then a layer of soil. Tamp down slightly. After that, we take out the plants from the pots and carefully place them in their places. We carefully look at our composition. After you have made sure that all the plants are placed correctly, the gaps between them are covered with earth. The earth is lightly compacted and spilled with water. After that, the surface of the soil can be decorated - sprinkled with decorative sand, stone chips, covered with a layer of dry or live moss.

As a decorative element, you can use natural stones or colored glass floristic pebbles, pieces of dry wood, bark, twigs, or miniature figurines.

But you should not get carried away with the decor, because the plants placed in a bowl by a group imitate the natural environment. A large number of decor is usually allowed when creating short-lived compositions, for example, from flowering bulbs.

Compositions of cacti and succulents

Very beautiful compositions can be made from cacti and succulents. They grow slowly, so the composition can stand unchanged for much longer than that made from ordinary plants. Plus, it doesn't require frequent watering. But these plants also have their own characteristics - they need brighter lighting, because if it is not enough, the plants grow quickly, losing their beautiful shape.

Compositions of cacti

Compositions from some cacti are even more durable. They can even be planted in transparent containers, covered in layers with decorative sand so as to create the effect of layered soil. Only in this case, the cactus needs to preserve the clod of earth in which it is planted, and fill only the gaps between the cacti and the walls of the bowl with decorative soil.

Watering such compositions should be very careful, as if over-watered, water can ruin the beautiful layers of colored sand.

The surface of the composition is usually covered with decorative sand, stone chips. Shells and small pebbles imitating a desert landscape can serve as a good decoration.

Compositions from plants in a decorative hydrogel

The hydrogel is sold at almost any flower shop. It can be painted in almost any color. And, due to its special properties, it can replace the soil for plants for some time. The gel is translucent, through which the roots of plants are visible, which gives the composition special charm... But the roots must be completely washed from the soil.

Most often, compositions are made in a gel from bulbous plants, whose life time is only 2-3 weeks - exactly as long as flowering lasts.

Compositions that imitate the landscape

Now it is very fashionable to make compositions that imitate some kind of landscape in general or a specific area in particular - for example, a small courtyard of your country house or a favorite corner of your summer cottage. Plants are selected, decorative elements are made - benches, tables, pergolas, fences - miniature copies of what is in your favorite corner. The planting technology is the same as in all cases - a layer of expanded clay is poured, a layer of soil on it, then the plants are planted.

Such imitation compositions are most often created in wider bowls of succulent plants. On cool winter evenings, they will remind you of the summer spent in your country house.

Are you running out of space on your windowsill? A lot of sand plants are scattered all over the windows and they have no aesthetic appearance? There is a way out - make compositions from the cactus family. Collect several types in one bowl, and you will see how they will be transformed appearance... Of the many separately growing, you will get several beautiful compositions from cacti and succulents.

Cacti, sharp scissors or pruning shears, earth, drainage, a bowl, potassium permanganate, water and imagination are all you need when composing a composition.

Consider the step-by-step instructions for composing a composition from cacti:

1. We collect all our cacti and succulents, free them from old pots and soil, look through all the roots and the body of the cactus itself. If there are rotten spots, carefully trim or remove them.

Separately, we make a solution of potassium permanganate and water to disinfect our thorny plants. To do this, dissolve several crystals of potassium permanganate in warm water(35-40 ° С), and place our thorny plants into our solution for a while. After 15–20 minutes we get our handsome men, put them on the newspaper and let them dry.

2. Prepare the container for our composition. For most species, a shallow wide pot is suitable, in this case we use a bowl. At the bottom of the bowl we put expanded clay for our drainage. The drainage should be 3-4 centimeters high. Add a little earth on top and make recesses for planting our plants, having thought out the appearance of the composition in advance. Do not forget to combine cacti and succulents with the same lighting and care needs.

3. Planting cacti and succulents. Plants can be planted in two ways: each cactus in a separate pot, using a bowl as a planter, or planting directly directly into the ground. This choice is up to you.

If the planting takes place in separate pots in a bowl, then we expose our pots with already planted cacti according to the conceived plan, and sprinkle the container with earth between the pots, and on top you can use different stones, shells or colored glass.

Landing directly into the ground occurs in a slightly different way. Our "thorns" and succulents are planted in the previously prepared holes for the plants, sprinkled with earth on top and tamped lightly with your fingers. On top of the earth, if desired, sprinkle with stones, shells or polished glass.

4. The final stage- watering and lighting compositions after planting. After planting, transplanting or transshipment, cacti are not watered or exposed to a sunny place. Place your composition in partial shade for a few days. Then, instead of watering, you can spray with small drops so that there are not drops, but water dust. And after a week you can put it out in a sunny place.

Such compositions of cacti and succulents will pleasantly delight your eye not only on the window sill, but also in any illuminated place in your room.

Currently, there is a lot of information, photos, master classes on making various crafts from any materials. Craftswomen, mothers who are fond of this type of creativity are not averse to trying themselves in making new crafts, both for themselves, for sale, and for joint creative activities with children. This article offers a variety of ideas and options for how to make a cactus.

Before starting making crafts, many begin to think about the question: What can you make a cactus with your own hands?

But do not worry, there are many different options, not only by different techniques, but also by applying various materials... Let's list some of them: knitted, crocheted, dried, sewn from various fabrics and materials, sculpted, made from paper, stones and many others.

Many needlewomen use precisely cactus and succulents in their creative works, because with its brightness and unusualness it attracts attention to itself, gives many ideas for creating their creative works.

Now we will consider several manufacturing options that are very effective, beautiful, functional and unusual. Although at first glance, it seems that they are difficult to fulfill, but here it is proposed step-by-step instruction for making cacti, following it with you, you will definitely get a very beautiful and original flower.

Cactus made of paper, cardboard

There are a lot of options for making them. First you need to make a cactus template that you came up with to make, but do not be upset, if you can't, you can download and print already ready-made templates and enjoy them.

Also, to create a complete exposition, you can make a pot, for example, from a disposable tea / coffee mug, from a used can, a glued paper cone, any plastic box necessary in size, etc.

Take the template, cut it out. Let's choose the required paper color and make blanks. We will cut, fold and glue everything (cacti and needles are painted with paints), if necessary, a pot is made. You can also make a bright flower and glue it to a cactus.

The pot can be pasted over with multi-colored tape and additional decorative elements can be added to your taste. The craft can be used as a handmade gift, and it will also revive and decorate any interior.

Pebble cactus

This version of the craft is very unusual, but most importantly, it will warm with memories of summer, sea, sunny days and bright events.

You need to take a pebble different sizes, rinse, dry. Acrylic paints paint pebbles, apply a background, sides, needles, you can also draw all kinds of flowers different colors and forms. Wait for it to dry completely.

At this time, take a flower pot of the required size and fill it with stone chips, leaving a third of the pot empty. Tightly insert the painted pebbles into the crumb into the pot.

Keychains cacti

Keychains are very functional and will fulfill the functions of toy and decorative cacti. They will attract attention with their uniqueness, thorniness and functionality.

For manufacturing, you need a small amount of yarn of various colors and stocking needles, we will knit the conceived shape of a cactus (circle, oval), we will hammer its inside with a synthetic winterizer and put it aside for a while. Let's take plastic of brown or other tones and blind the pot the right size and bake it in the oven.

We glue the PVA abundantly grease the tip of the cactus and attach it to the pot, wait for it to dry completely. We carefully attach the iron ring to the top of the cactus. You can crochet a flower in bright colors and attach it to the side. It will turn out very nice and functional!

Knitted cactus pillows

A pillow, knitted with your own hands, and in addition, in the shape of a cactus !!! How attractive, original, comfortable it is. This pillow will decorate the interior, be comfortable and functional.

Note!

Before you start, you must not forget that you need to knit it in the shape of a cactus so that there is a more realistic effect of similarity, plus it is advisable to choose a type of knitting similar in texture to a cactus and do not forget to add small parts- beautiful flower.

Take yarn of the required color, knitting needles, choose the pattern you like and start knitting, after the end of knitting, connect the seams, fill with padding polyester. Knit a flower from bright yarn.

Pin cushion - do it yourself cactus

There are a variety of photos of crafts in the form of a cactus made different methods... For example, needle beds crocheted, knitting needles, made of fabric and felt.

Any housewife needs a pin cushion, it will be especially pleasant to use it if you know that it is made with your own hands and with love and, of course, will decorate the work corner with its uniqueness.

Needle cushion knitted

To do this, take the yarn of the intended color, knitting needles, knit with an "elastic" band to the required size, take a needle and sew. We fill with padding polyester, give the shape of a circle and sew up the bottom. We take flower pot, we pour expanded clay or pebbles for weight, cut out a circle from the foam plastic with the size of the upper diameter of the pot and cut out a circle in the center for attaching the tied cactus.

Note!

We paint the resulting circle brown, glue the edges of the foam and carefully insert the cactus into it so that the foam does not break. We are waiting for complete drying. At this time, we are preparing flowers - they can be made of paper or crocheted, attached to a cactus. The final stage - decorate with needles - pins.

Needle cushion, crocheted

The implementation of this craft is not very different from the one described above. Only a hook is used, and all materials and methods are the same.

It is necessary to crochet the cactus, fill it with padding polyester, decorate it with a flower and needles - pins. Prepare the pot and the foam hole in advance, grease the inner hole with glue and carefully insert the cactus.

Needle cushion made of felt or fabric

These beds are suitable for those who cannot knit or want to try new way manufacturing. Felt - the material is very easy to use, it does not crumble and it is pleasant to work with it. The fabric is more whimsical, but each needlewoman chooses the material she likes.

When using any materials, the craft will always be unique and made with love. We decide on the material. We make a template, we make samples from it. We sew them, you can leave the seams outside, or you can turn out the sample.

We fill the cactus with padding polyester. You can prepare a pot for the pincushion or sew on a ribbon to hang. Beautifully decorate a cactus by making a flower, eyes, mouth, nose, insert pins - everything is at your discretion and taste.

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DIY cactus photo