The weather has been so finicky here in Dallas. So I decided to bring a little spring in the house by planting succulents. It will be cold one day and hot the next or hot one day and when the sun goes down, it’s cold again. I’m seeing the trees and flowers starting to bud and I would love to plant my seeds or seedlings but I fear the cold weather may kill my baby plants. So, this year I think I will just wait a little while longer and get a late harvest. Smh…as I was working on this blog….I get a tweet notification from Oprah Winfrey, showing off her first harvest of the year!
Welcome Spring..Just picked some berries straight from my garden! #harvestday pic.twitter.com/zDnjlMcBSu
— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) March 27, 2014
Oh well, patience posses ye your soul ~Luke 21:19~ So I will patiently wait on my harvest; but those strawberries look delicious! I’m not hating!
My barren garden waiting for life.
To feel that Spring has arrived, I planted some succulents yesterday. I bought this awesome glass container and created a couple of containers to put the succulents in.
“No matter how long the Winter, Spring is sure to follow” Proverbs
For my first pot I use this cream cheese container and crocheted what some call a “cozy” for it. I used 4ply cotton yarn and twine for the stripe and sewed a fleur de lis button for an accent. I sprayed the container with a buttermilk color spray to tone down the white.
I put rocks in the bottom of the container before putting the dirt in for water drainage. The dirt is a mixture of potting soil and sand. After placing the succulents in the container, I topped it with some small rocks that I found at the thrift store.
Oh how beautiful, If I didn’t give out my secret…you would never know that I used a plastic container to create this beauty. 
I made two of them and I placed them in my kitchen windowsill…so pretty!
Here is the container that I bought at JoAnn’s Fabric so adorable. It can also be purchased at Amazon.
I just love this little hanging glass plant container. I hung it in my craft room so cute!
Well, I may not have a harvest like Oprah Winfrey right now, but, I feel the joy of Spring in my heart…waiting for my harvest!
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Love these plants and the pots! ………………..
I want some myself!
Would love to make the sleeve for you
Hi Cynthia,
It’s a lovely ‘cosy’ and the fleur de lis button really accentuates the whole look. I love it! I look forward to trying out the pattern. 😀
Thanks! Have fun creating!
Gorgeous! I seriously can’t believe you made that with a cream cheese container! So creative 🙂 Gorgeous! Pinned 🙂 Thank you so much for linking up at Thursday STYLE!
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Thanks Angela!
I think I will have to try this. As I wait for spring here in PA, some green in my house would be nice. You make it look easy enough too.
It’s very easy to do Mallory…just make a chain the size of the bottom of the plastic container slip stitch together and single crochet until container is covered, it’s that easy…~Happy Fingers~
p.s. thanks for stopping by!
Love the final result! I have big plans for my garden this year! Kale and spinach!
~Zhenya
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Thank you Zhenya! I planted Kale and spinach last year, this year I’m only planting spinach…I love gardening! Thank you so much for stopping by!
How do I find the pattern for the cozy around the plastic container. Did I miss something???
thanks, Nada
This would be a good project for our garden clubs fund raiser.
Hi Nada! Yes this will be a great project for your garden club fund raiser! This project was done without a pattern, I used cotton yarn and I made an increased circle about the size of the bottom of the container, then I stopped the increase and just crocheted until I got the height I needed…just about every other row or so I would crochet in front of the stitch and about halfway through I changed the yarn to jute and then back to the cotton yarn…and then added an element and that’s it. I hope this helps…”happy fingers”