How to Select Topdressings for Succulent Art Pots

From a design standpoint, your plant-pot pairings aren't finished unless you cover the soil. The ideal topdressing works well in terms of contrast and repetition, but doesn't call too much attention to itself. Jeanne Meadow has elevated topdressing to an art form. See her palette of topdressings and embellishments, and what she chooses for three one-of-a-kind, collectible art pots by Mark Muradian, a potter who sells at Cactus & Succulent Society Shows.

SUCCULENTS IN THE VIDEO:
Crassula capitella ssp. thyrsiflora 'Mini Towers'
Medusa euphorbias (E. caput-medusae, E. flanaganii, E. inermis)
Senecio stapeliiformis

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