BIRDHOUSE

Birdhouses are a fun and functional way to add charm to your garden while providing shelter for a feathered friend. The woodsy moss and gorgeous succulents will have the birds in your garden fighting over this prized real estate!

WHAT YOU NEED

• Wood Birdhouse
• Six pieces of ¹⁄₄"-thick Craft Wood
• Tape Measure
• Saw
• Staple Gun and Staples
• Mesh Hardware Cloth
• Wire Cutters
• Succulent Soil
• Sphagnum Moss
• Pencil or similar pointy tool
• Succulent Cuttings
• Floral Pins
• Hot Glue
• Decorative Moss

WHAT TO DO

1. Measure and cut your ¹⁄₄"-thick craft wood to the lengths of the sides of your birdhouse’s roof. You will need two smaller pieces for the bases of the roof and four longer pieces for the sides.
2. Staple your craft wood pieces to the roof of your birdhouse, creating rooftop boxes to hold your succulents. Try to staple from angles where the staples will not be visible from the front.

   

3. Now, measure the pitch of your roof and cut a piece of mesh wire hardware cloth that will fit over the top of your new succulent box.

   

4. Staple your mesh wire to your succulent box, creating a new roof.

   

5. Fill the slopes of your roof with soil. If you would rather not use soil, you can fill the entire succulent box with sphagnum moss.

   

6. Fill empty space at the peak of your roof with sphagnum moss.

   

7. Use a pencil or similar pointy tool to create a hole in the soil or moss where you want to insert your succulent cutting.

   

8. Begin planting your succulents. Use floral pins to hold your plants in place if necessary.

   

9. Plant a larger succulent in the sphagnum moss at the peak of your birdhouse facing forward.
10. Hot-glue moss to the edges of your roof to hide any mesh wire that may still be showing.

CARE INSTRUCTIONS

Place your succulent-topped birdhouse where it will receive plenty of bright, indirect sunlight. Water when the soil is dry.