These Succulent Top Dressing Ideas can enhance your plant’s aesthetic appeal while keeping their health a priority. Check them out!
Top dressing helps maintain the succulent’s cleanliness and regulate moisture. Here are a few ideas to inspire you and design your planter further.
Succulent Top Dressing Ideas
1. Cover the Container with Pebbles
You can add a layer of small pebbles on top of the soil to make your succulents look more gorgeous and give them their natural habitat feel! Plus, pebbles can keep the soil cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
2. A Peaceful Top Dressing
Isn’t it a beautiful royal look? Use these milky white pebbles top-dressing on your succulent container to improve your space aesthetics with the peaceful vibes of white color.
3. Turface MVP for Succulent Dressing
You can cover your succulent with a turface MVP layer. It is a high-fired calcined clay that will improve soil drainage, promote aeration, reduce water retention, and prevent compaction.
4. Charcoal Top Dressing for Succulents
Isn’t it a great idea to add activated charcoal powder to your soil for better drainage? You can have this type of dressing too!
5. Living Stones With Tan Pebbles
A layer of tan pebbles on your succulents that look like lips/stones or any other one you want while placing them on the bright window will set a perfect environment for flourishing them well.
6. Succulents With Coarse Sand
You can cover your succulent with inexpensive coarse sand; it comes in different colors. In addition, it will help in good drainage and give your terrarium a desert look.
7. Minimize Rotting With Top Dressing
Top dressing with little pebbles and rocks in this pot creates a barrier between the lower body of the cactus and the soil. It is an excellent way to minimize the rotting in your cactus, particularly when you overwater unintentionally.
8. Top Dressing for Rainy Season
Look at this circular container filled with succulents and colorful rocks. This top dressing will help you control soil erosion, particularly in the rainy season.
9. A Shield of Pebbles
Covering the soil with pebbles will break the heavy force of water, be it in the rain or during watering, preventing the soil from getting eroded and splashing water onto the leaves.
10. A Contrasting Combination
Top dressing is a quick way to make your succulents look stunning! Adding contrasting color stones that match your pastel palette of plants would be a great option!
11. A Layer of Colorful Polished Rocks
Cover your rosette-shaped succulent with these colorful stones that will give a smooth, rounded accent to the entire container. You can also use these stones to decorate your rock garden or flower beds.
12. Succulent Top Dressing With Dark Pebbles
If you live in a hot climate, then a succulent top dressing with dark pebbles or gravel will help absorb more heat into the soil, which in turn helps in the development of roots. Light colors generally reflect the heat!
13. Top Dressing With Gravel
Make your yin-yang succulent planter more appealing with gravel top dressing. It can be used as a table decor. Also, it can be a thoughtful gift!
14. Planter Without Drainage Holes
This mini succulent planter does not have drainage holes, so the top dressing of concrete river rocks will help control the moisture. Easy!
