How To Construct a Cactus Dish Garden
Step 4 of 11 steps.

Put a layer of the soil mixture into the bowl. Using care not to get impaled by the spines, take each plant out of their containers. Gloves may be needed here! Position your plants in the bowl until you like the view. Insure that there is space between each plant and the side of the bowl.

A few words on positioning: It is best to use an odd number of plants in your dish garden; An odd fact, but, it seems to help the appearance alot. In my dish garden, I've positioned the plants in a star pattern. The tallest plant is the point of the star. Forming a serpentine pattern, the other plants are positioned at other points according to size from tallest to shortest.