The perfect excuse to buy new wine glasses- wine glass planters! This simple project doesn’t stretch you if you aren’t much of a gardener (hand raised), but still gives you a cute little punch of green in your home.
If you’ve seen all the fun ideas for succulents floating around online and you’re ready to make your own, this wine glass planter project couldn’t be easier.
Tip: you can make succulent planters with any kind of wine glass. We bought new ones really inexpensively here, but you may be looking for what to do with old wine glasses if you have a few left over from a set.
How to Make Wine Glass Planters
You can whip these up in no time, and they would make the perfect gift!
It would be super cute to add in little painted stones, decorative insects, or shells to spice these planters up a bit, but we’ll show you the basics here and you can let your imagination go wild with what other cute little items to tuck in.
Supplies For Wine Glass Planters
- Wine glasses
- Potting soil
- Sand
- Small pebbles or stones/sea glass/marbles – whatever you like the look of
- Plants – tiny succulents are perfect!
- Optional little decorations (painted rocks, decorative insects, shells, small crystals, marbles, beads, etc)
- Spoon for scooping and placing sand and soil
- Toothpick
- Small paint brush to brush dirt off succulent at the end
Directions For Succulent Wine Glass Planters
Lay out a tarp or paper, because these things get messy! Or you can work outside to make cleanup much easier.
Fill glass with about 1/2″ of sand
Put a little soil in
Remove succulent from original container and place over soil
Fill in around the succulent with more soil using a spoon, packing it down gently.
Add river pebbles on top of soil.
Brush excess soil off of succulent.
Water and mist if you have a mister.
Alternative Idea: Air plants! You can modify this planter to use air plants instead of succulents if you want. Simply omit the potting soil, and place a small amount of sand, pebbles, shells, etc in the bottom of the glass. Nestle your air plant on the substrate and mist 2-3 times per week. See this page for complete air plant care instructions.
Pssssssssst:
Absolutely dread the idea of keeping plants alive? Try these really cute fake succulents. We won’t tell anyone they aren’t real.
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