How to Make a Hanging Orchid Planter
Display gorgeous orchids in a mod metal planter filled with soft moss and groundcover. This arrangement uses chartreuse sedum and Spanish moss for high-contrast against colorful orchid blooms. With the right materials, this project is super simple and ends up looking sleek.
- Working Time 20 Minutes
- Start to Finish 20 Minutes
- Difficulty Projects Easy
- Involves Planting
What you need
Tools
- Container for soaking moss
Materials
- Sphere planter
- Spanish moss
- Orchids
- Sphagnum moss
- Potting soil
- Groundcover sedum; we used 'Angelica' sedum
How to do it
Step 1 Fill Bottom With Moss
Fill bottom of planter with Spanish moss, pressing the moss to the sides and leaving a hole in the center. This will result in a bowl-like shape.
Step 2 Soak and Place Sphagnum Moss
Soak sphagnum moss well in a container for at least 30 seconds. Then, slightly wring out excess water and put the wet sphagnum moss in the center of the Spanish moss.
Step 3 Tuck In Orchids
Leaving orchids in their nursery pots, tuck them within the sphagnum moss so they are held in place and covered with it.
Step 4 Add Soil
Add a 1 inch layer of potting soil on top of the sphagnum moss.
Step 5 Plant Sedum
Plant sedum in the top layer of soil, arranging it around the orchids. Try to cover as much of the exposed dirt with the sedum plants to create a dense groundcover.
1 Comment
- halfnelson79079June 23, 2018Difficulty: Very easy
Thank you for this simple yet beautiful idea! My Aunt just moved into a residential facility, did not take her orchids. I brought them home and made three small spheres. I knew she had a siding glass door to a small patio. The orchids and her glass clowns are the first things she sees every morning!
Thank You again!raf