Finished Product:

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Materials:

• 12-inch terra-cotta pot saucer, with or without drainage holes
• Cactus mix potting soil
• Miniature garden furnishings and figurines, such as an arbor, chair, wheelbarrow, urn, and cat
• Finely crushed rock or tiny pebbles
• Succulents with small leaves, such as watch-chain crassula, delicate sedums, small stacked crassulas, and Sedum rubrotinctum. Try Crassula tetragona if you want the look of a small tree.

Step 1

Fill the terra-cotta pot saucer with potting mix to 1/2 inch below the rim. Secure the miniature arbor about an inch inside the rim of the saucer.

Step 2

Create a pathway of finely crushed rock or pebbles that curves from the lower right-hand edge of the saucer through the miniature arbor.

Step 3

Pinch the top half-inch of the sedums so you can insert their rosettes or tips into the soil, between pathway and rim, to create a lush and verdant garden of your liking.

Step 4

Add accents. Here, we filled a miniature wheelbarrow with soil and planted it with cuttings. We used the top few inches of Crassula tetragona for a little tree, and we positioned a chair beneath the arbor and topped it with a tiny sleeping cat.

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