My sister did a most untypical method of making a succulent garden. She bought a shallow, about 2 foot diameter pot. About a half dozen, succulents, small 2" pots. Soil in pot, to level out pots. She left plants in pots !!! Put them in big pot, and filled open spaces around pots with soil. Go figure ? When soil goes down. She adds more.
They have been many years this way, there happy and blooming, as i speak. Morning sun with no afternoon sun. Right hear in Fresno CA.
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