A Succulent Living Picture
On our stand at the 2025 Queensland Garden Show, on the Aussie Green Oasis bar and on the sales desk, we displayed two planted picture frames full of succulents.
If you want to make your own succulent living pictures like ours, you'll need a deep box picture frame - you can see the depth of it in the image here. We picked ours up at a local op shop. And of course, your selection of our succulent tubestock plants! You could use these ideas below as a template to plant a shallow dish - or even a rockery border.Take a look at our Succulents category for more inspiration and suggestions for your own succulent creation.
Dark & Stormy
This is a rich, dark and moody selection of succulents, full of depth; contrasting almost-black leaves against silvery-white, small and rounded against large and pointed. This mix of textures and scales and tones is the key to a successful succulent planting full of interest.
The Plants We Used
- Aloe Pink Blush : peach-pink and silver-green pointed rosettes
- Sedum Chocolate Mound : small dark chocolate-brown-purple leaves
- Echeveria Black Knight : deep green and almost-black gently pointed rosettes
- Haworthia Savanna : silver-grey chunky pointed rosettes
- Senecio chalk sticks : silver-blue slender branching stems
- Echeveria Perle von Nurnberg : purple-lilac-grey rounded rosettes
- Echeveria Topsy Turvy : blue-green-silver rosettes, each leaf folded in the centre
- Sedum makinoi, variegated : small green leaves, and green edged in white, threading their way through the planting
Rusty Nail
This is a warm and cosy selection of succulents, reddish-brown and full of tactile texture; contrasting to sharp points of aloe and haworthia with the smooth broad leaves of kalanchoe Gremlin and echeveria, and the furry leaves of panda plant.
The Plants We Used
- Callisia Pink Lady inch plant : neat pink and cream leaves along trailing stems
- Aloe aristata lace aloe : dense rosettes of white-spotted pointed leaves
- Senecio string of beans : long trailing stems of chubby bean-shaped leaves
- Kalanchoe Gremlin : large smooth leaves with serrated rims edged in dark brown
- Crassula Tom Thumb : neat towers of tiny leaves
- Sedum makinoi : small green leaves threading their way through the planting
- Cotyledon bear paws : trailing stems of fat green furry leaves, with clawed tips like a bear's paw
- Kalanchoe tomentosa panda plant : grey and brown leaves, furry to touch like suede
