How I Made My Cactus & Succulent Rock Garden Raised Bed
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2023
- Indoor cactus & succulent plant landscaping, anyone? As a visual centerpiece to my collection of cacti and other succulent plants I built myself a cactus and succulent plant rock garde. The mini landscape, a combination of plants, decorative rocks, minerals and fossils was assembled on a display table and as a raised bed. In this video I describe the process of how I built this feature and all the steps and materials required. The video has the following chapters:
1:26 Choosing & converting standard greenhouse tables/benches
6:04 Maximising space & the main components
9:10 Preparing acrylic glass growing troughs and the tables/benches
12:30 The main layers and filling of the growing troughs/beds
21:27 Identifying and utilising micro-climate zones
23:43 Watering of the plants
26:06 my dream come true: a cactus & succulent rock garden and mini landscape
Please join me in my greenhouse and watch the step-by-step description of how I went about building my mini landscape cactus & succulent plant rock garden display!
Enjoy!
Joe
@cactusjoe
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AWESOME video on How you made your Cactus & Succulent Rock garden Joe :-D and your rock garden looks so AMAZING, fantastic info you have shared on how you made your rock garden, and this is something Hans and I would love to do in the future, it looks so beautiful and creative to see all the plants planted landscaped in the rock bed, wonderfully informative and detailed and explained video on How you made your incredible Rock garden, thanks so much for sharing with us Joe, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Bavaria for a wonderful afternoon XXXX
Thanks so much, Lyn, really appreciate your wonderful feedback and comments! Super that you found the video informative and interesting and that you liked the cactus & succulent rock bed! If you and Hans are planning something like this in the future, please let me know once you have further questions coming up, as I will be very happy to support! Sending you both very best cactus greetings to the beautiful Emerald Isle and for a wonderful Friday and weekend ahead! 😊👍🌵🌵🌺🌸🌞💚😎
@@cactusjoe Thats fantastic, thanks so much Joe, have a fantastic plant powered Friday and upcoming weekend XXXX ❤😃😎🌅☀🌞🌵🌵🌵🌵
Wow! I’ve been waiting for this video. Geez, you put so much thought into that raised bed. Didn’t think it has an acrylic glass and a heating element underneath?!! You did it like a pro. Amazing how you can mix Haworthias with desert cacti. Thanks for doing this video, Joe. It makes me want to try one myself. 😊
Thanks a lot, Ana, love your wonderful feedback and comments and so happy that you found the video and concept useful and interesting! Yeah indeed, you are spot on, it is perhaps a bit surprising and unconventional in approach, but the Haworthias, Gasterias etc. can be grown quite well alongside the full-sun desert cacti, once the micro climate zones of the set up location have been figured out. Thanks again for watching and commenting, Ana, and drop me a line if any other questions pop up in case you are planning to put something similar together one day - I will most definitely be very happy to assist and support if required! Have a great day and awesome week ahead!
There's no doubt that your cacti and succulent raised bed is the epitome of desert plant designs Joe😊🤲🌟I could spend a week documenting your plants. That Parodia with the seedlings growing around it is the proof of good cacti culture habits💖
Thanks a million, Newman, that is very kind of you to say that, truly appreciated! I'm sure there are a lot of other super designs around too, just very happy that you liked this one! haha, I would not mind if you documented the plants, would save me having to do it, lol! Yeah, indeed, I was very pleased to see those seedlings pop up around the mother plant - must be something they like about the whole setup, haha! Wishing you a great weekend and very best cactus greetings going out to you in Japan!
Awesome video, Joe. Loved how you explained everything and you actually answered all of the questions I had in my mind when I saw you had a raised bed in your greenhouse from your early videos haha. Looks absolutely fantastic, too. Thank you for sharing with us my friend. Have a lovely evening from Edith & myself and happy growing 👍🏻🌵☀️🌼🌺🏜
Thanks a million, Daz, really super happy that you liked the raised bed and also found the video informative!! Thanks for watching and for your awesome feedback my friend, appreciated!! Hope you and Edith are both having a relaxing and enjoyable weekend, lot's of cactus greetings to England and Singapore, respectively! Happy growing!!🙏👍😊🌵🌵🌺💚😎
Your raised bed is amazing, you put a lot of work and care in it and it shows. You should be very proud of it! Thanks for all the info, have a great weekend!!!
Thanks, Jena! Really happy to read that you found the raised cactus bed amazing! Indeed, a fair amount of experimenting along the way, but I am quite happy with it as it is now, it has come a long way. Happy also to see that you found all the information in the video useful! Thanks for watching and commenting, truly appreciated as always! Hope you are having a marvellous Monday and wishing you an awesome rest of the week! Happy growing!
Hello Joe! You have created a wonderfully beautiful landscape with your cactus and succulent plants among the rocks of various sizes and other items for decorations. You gave great instructions to one who wants to have a similar project. I think the watering of this would be hard to do, but I know you have mastered that with no problem. Hope you have a wonderful weekend and thanks for sharing.
Hello Cheryl! Really brilliant to read all your wonderful comments and feedback, as always, very much appreciated, thank you! So happy that you found the cactus landscape created, together with all the plants, rocks and other decorations beautiful! And indeed, my intention was to provide detailed and hopefully usable information for anyone else wanting to create something similar in the future! Regarding your question on watering: actually it is a very simple procedure, as I top water almost all my plants - and, coincidentally, I will be uploading a video on how and when I water my cactus and other succulent plants in the near future! All will be revealed, haha! Thanks again for watching and commenting - and wishing you an awesome week ahead! And happy growing of course!
Fantastic, detailed video on how you made your cactus landscape. Dividing it into chapters really helped tell the story. We also got to see some really good closeup shots of the plants and the landscape. The quality of the video was perfect. Thanks for sharing your dream with us, Joe and I hope to see you back here really soon.
Thank you, Terry!! Really appreciate all your wonderful comments and feedback, and really fantastic that you enjoyed the video and raised bed!! Hope you are enjoying your weekend, thanks for watching and commenting!! Best wishes and happy growing of course!
Hey Joe, this was a very well explained, and detailed introduction on how you put your cactus table together, looks amazing. You left no detail unexplained. Great video as always.
Hey David, thanks so much, makes me very happy to read that you found the video very useful and that you also liked it with all the detailed explanations! Also very happy that you find the cactus table amazing! many thanks for watching and for all your wonderful feedback and comments, as always truly appreciated! Wishing you a marvellous Monday and great week ahead, happy growing!
Thank you for this! I've been wondering how you constructed it. I took lots of notes. It's so great to see your raised bed inhabitants are reproducing and another generation is starting to pop up!
Thank YOU, Justin, for watching and for all your wonderful feedback and comments! Very happy to read that this video sucessfully addressed your questions about how the raised bed had been constructed and also fantastic to read that you have taken a lot of notes, haha! Just let me know if any other questions pop up, will be happy to answer, my friend. Yep, that next generation of raised bed inhabitants indeed already on the way, lol! Wishing you an awesome week ahead! And happy growing of course!
That is beautiful Joe I appreciate the good information
Thanks so much, Gary, so glad you liked the cactus rock garden and found the video informative! Wishing you a fabulous Friday and weekend ahead!!🙏👍😊🌵🌵🌺🌸🌞💚😎🙌
This is a very interesting and useful video Joe ! Thank you !! And how beautiful were all the close up pictures of the plants ! I mean, isn’t that absolutely super cool to recreate the almost the natural conditions and space and see all these new young plants growing from the seeds ? Your installation is really fantastic and looks gorgeous !! I love it ! Thank you again for sharing with us and bravo ! 🌵🌵🌵💚💚💚
Wow, thanks a million, Anna, for all your awesome feedback and comments! So happy that you enjoyed the video and found it useful to see, also the cacti in close ups! Yes, it was always a dream of mine to try and recreate a litttle bit of a natural growing "habitat" for my succulent plants! And I was so happy and proud to see these tiny little seedlings appear in-between the gravel chips around their mother plant! It felt like something was going allright in this mini ecosystem on a table, haha! Fantastic to read your feedback and I hope that you will be able to create something like this yourself one day too! Hope you are enjoying your weekend, best wishes and happy growing of course!
Outstanding, Joe. Just outstanding.
Thank you Bill, truly fantastic, your feedback, hugely appreciated and so happy that you found the video outstanding!! Thanks for watching and for your support and friendship!! Happy growing!!
Looking good Joe 😎You're right about the granite top dressing, really does make a difference and, as you say, it's pretty inert. Adds another dimension to the whole bed 🙂 Have a lovely evening my friend 😊😊🌵🌵🌿🌿
Thanks so much, Ziggy, really appreciate all your positive comments and feedback! Yeah the granite chips as top dressing only came relatively recently as an idea and attempt to prevent the pumice in my mineral substrate from washing away during watering! Glad you liked it! Hope you are having a relaxing weekend, thanks for watching and commenting my friend! 🙏👍😊🌵🌵🌺💚😎🙌
@@cactusjoe No worries Joe 😊 I had the same problems with pearlite. You too my friend 😊🌵
Fantastic !! Very informative, ! Thanks very much love the table mini cactus landscape!
Hey Cecilia! Many thanks, very happy indeed that you enjoyed the video and raised bed with cacti! Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated as always!! Enjoy your Sunday and happy growing!!
Wow, I have been thinking about how to create an elevated landscape, and I haven't seen anyone do this before. Thank you. It's so beautiful.
Hi Cheryl, thanks so much for watching and I'm really happy that you liked my raised cactus landscape! Hope the video has provided a bit of an inspiration, best wishes, happy creating and happy growing of course! 😊👍🙌🙏🌵🪴🌵🌺🌼💚😎☀️
Great video & awesome job!!! You put a lot of thought into this Joe!!! And it really shows!!! I'm going to be doing a video on " staging " here very soon. I'm definitely going to mention that viewers need to take a look at this video!! This is an awesome example of larger scale staging!!! Love the whole landscape!! Nice and rocky!!! With lots of really cool rocks!!! I love a rock pile full of cacti and succulents!!! Hard to beat!!! Very pleasing to the eye!! So many points of interest!! I would definitely be proud of this one!!! Thanks so much for sharing the set up!!! Very cool Joe!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, to Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪 have a wonderful weekend ahead!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌴🌿🌳🌸🌷🌾💐🌱🌹😃👍
WOW, thank you a million for your absolutely awesome feedback, Clyde, I am really super happy that you liked the video and also the whole raised bed concept! Hahaha, absolutely LOVE your comment "I love a rock pile full of cacti and succulents"...that pretty much sums up my interests too, lol! So glad to read that you like the whole staging of the project and that's a real honor to be mentioned in your upcoming video on staging cacti and succulents, Clyde, thank you so much!!! Very much looking forward to watching your upcoming video! Once again many thanks, my good friend, and wishing you a marvellous Monday as well as an awesome week ahead of course! Tons of cactus and rock greetings out to you at Morris Park in the Ozarks, USA! Peace, Love, Plants and Happy Growing of course!!
Fantastic setup.
Very informative.
Often wondered how you set up the bed.
Great that you shared in such detail
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for watching and for your awesome feedback and comments, really appreciated, Ted! Very happy that you found the video and the detailed explanations useful and also that I was able to answer the questions that you had about the cactus bed setup. Wishing you a wonderful Monday and a great week ahead, happy growing!
Amazing work Joe! All your work go to very healthy and beautiful plants! 👏👏👏
Have a beautiful day!
Thank you so much, Elda! Glad that you liked the raised cactus bed and also the plants, much appreciated! Hope you are enjoying a wonderful Saturday afternoon and rest of the weekend in your absolutely gorgeous flower garden! Take care and best wishes to you in Albania!
Amazing🌵 love your rock garden. Lots of Information as always, 💚🌵
Grüße aus dem Norden von D😊
Fantastic feedback, thank you so much and super happy that you liked the cactus rock garden! Herzliche Kakteengrüße zurück, in den Norden Deutschlands!! 🙌👍😊🌵🌵🌺🌸🌞💚😎🙏
Well done Joe...and very informative. The details were excellent. I like the results. How long did the entire project took? Have a great week and happy gardening!
Thank you very much, Donna, really appreciated! And brilliant to read that you found the infos in the video useful, and of course that you liked the raised bed mini landscape! The entire project was spread out over a few weeks, which of course included the planning stage and also ordering and preparing the materials. Once I received the pre-cut acrylic glass and had it glued together (2-3 days for full drying), the rest was done in less than a week - i.e. filling in the substrate, planting the cacti and other plants and placing the rocks and other ornamental / landscaping elements. But of course, over time there were also always some new adjustments, so it is a bit of an ongoing project, haha. But the care and maintenance is very low! So in my mind, worth every minute of the efforts! Wishing you too a great week ahead and happy gardening & growing!
Hi Joe; I am busy planning my Cacti landscape project based on your design; quick question would perlite suffice for the 3cm base layer; rather than pumice that you used; cheers 👋
Hi Terry! As the sole purpose of that base layer is to serve as a water drainage layer (for surplus water after watering), any gritty or pebbly material will be fine. I used quarz pebbles, all ca. 3-5mm, leaving a fair amount of open pore spaces between the pebbles for drainage. Cheers, Joe👋😊👍😎
Thank you Joe; I’m trying to reduce the weight mainly; my frame will be a reinforced wood structure along with the base layer being a drainage layer; that is my thinking around perlite; the main substrate will mirror yours; only 1000mm x 500mm; so a mini version 😁👍
@terrystokes7047 yep, makes sense, Terry! Perlite should indeed do the trick, as very light indeed 👍😉🌵🎄🪴🙌