Repurpose: Fiery Succulents.

Succulents are one of my favorite things to plant.  I think they are really interesting and beautiful to look at, and it doesn't hurt that, in most cases, it would take a serious black thumb to kill one of them off.  I tend to have really good luck with them as long as I remember to cover them before a frost.  

For the past few weeks I've been eying my decrepit old fire pit that's been taking up space in my backyard.  The bottom of the bowl has some rust issues, and I don't think it would hold wood for a warm and friendly fire.  For whatever reason, it never made it to the road for curbside pickup.  

I've also been searching for a wide and shallow pot to re-pot some succulents that have long outgrown their current home.  Call me a genius, if you will, but it occurred to me that I already had the perfect wide and shallow pot living a very useless life on my back patio.  Hence:

I'm not sure what species of succulent I've got growing out the whazoo, but I like them in their new pot.

Stay tuned for more garden goodness to come!      

p.s.  That green swing you see there is a Wal-Mart purchase and it has easily tripled the time we spend outside.