I recently showed you my ideas on Halloweenish styled succulent planters. I also thought I was going to repurpose all of the succulents into an Autumn planter for the Thanksgiving table. Well....I changed my mind a bit as I was browsing my local garden center. When I saw the mini ornamental cabbages my heart did a little happy dance. If you know me I love everything in mini size, well except for chocolate I like those in the extra big sizes. For the last several years I've planted some kind of plant in a pumpkin for our Thanksgiving hosts. I posted a reference in the top image of some of the white pumpkin varieties as those are the ones I'm drawn to. I like how the green color of the plants pops off the white of the pumpkin, but any colored pumpkin will do and fit in with your color scheme that you choose in you fall decor.
I reused the string of pearls {that where Skullys dreads} in my Halloween Planter.
That way I could extend the use of it's decorative purpose. I also reused the little succulents that are in the urn next to Skully into a on clearance white pumpkin bowl from World Market because it was missing it's lid, got it for a meager 2 dollars.
Here is a top view of the pumpkin planter. I always like to change up my pumpkin planter for my host/hostess so they get a surprise every year.
The 1st time I did this was in 2013, I was happy with the results. I had a little chalkboard that I wrote GATHER on it and glued a stick to it. In 2014 I found this mixed herb plant with the ceramic turkey in it and hollowed out the Jarrahdale {the blueish-grey pumpkin} and put in the herb plant, I fell in love with the ceramic turkey when I saw it. Then this years pumpkin planter in the bottom pictures, I'm very pleased with how it came out. I hallow out my pumpkins and but small rocks from the dollar store but I've seen where you can hot glue succulents to the top of them with moss so the pumpkins last longer. I've only heard that you do that with succulents not plants like cabbages or the herbs. After you've gutted it and the rocks are on the bottom you add potting soil. I love plants that drape so I'm loving how the string of pearls cascade off the side of the Lumina Pumpkin. In fact this pumpkin was so hardy that it lasted all year from 2015! I've harvested the seeds so I can attempt to plant my own white pumpkins! So if you need a great hostess gift or you are hosting dinner at your home this makes a great addition to your Thanksgiving table. You could use some of the mini pumpkins and use tiny succulents and put them on your dinner plates and your guests have a take home gift. I've been decorating my Cottage on Cullen for the fall but won't start pulling any Christmas décor up until I'm out of my tryptophan coma. I'll be sharing my Fall Home soon.....hope you come back to see it. Here is a sneak peak.
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