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This is the small-format succulent range, built around two mixed succulent bowls at 19cm and 20.5cm that arrive planted and finished. RealTex surface detail gives each rosette its own tone and leaf thickness, so a bowl of eight heads does not read as one head repeated.
Choosing a Small Artificial Succulent Bowl for a Desk or Shelf
This is the compact corner of the succulent ranges and it is deliberately short: five pieces, none of them a floor plant. Two mixed succulent bowls sit at the centre of it, one at 19cm in a round decorative bowl and one at 20.5cm in a marble pot, both arriving planted with a mix of rosette forms. A hanging string of pearls at 75cm adds the trailing option, and two flowering tulip bowls at 35cm round it out, with prices from $9.95 to $49.95. For anything with real height, the yellow tongues and agaves range is where to go instead.
Styling and sizing
Nineteen and twenty and a half centimetres is desk scale, so these read properly at arm's length and disappear from three metres away. That makes them a grouping product rather than a feature. The string of pearls is the exception and needs height under it, so a shelf edge or the top of a cabinet is where it earns its 75cm.
Positioning and light
A living succulent needs strong light and sharp drainage, which is why the ones on office desks die. These need neither, so a windowless meeting room, an ensuite shelf or a bedside table is fair game. None of the five pieces here are UV rated, so keep them indoors or under solid cover rather than on an open balcony.
Selection guidance
Choose between the two bowls on the vessel rather than the planting, since the succulent mixes are similar. The marble pot at 20.5cm reads cooler and more formal, and the round bowl at 19cm is softer. For orchids alongside succulents see succulents and orchids, and for greenery at height see artificial potted plants.
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RealTex detail. Rosette tone and leaf thickness varied within each bowl.
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End-of-life take-back. Through the Designer Plants artificial greenery recycling programme.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How big are the artificial succulent bowls in this range?
There are two, at 19cm and 20.5cm measured overall including the vessel. The 19cm version comes in a round decorative bowl and the 20.5cm version in a marble pot. Both are planted with a mix of rosette forms rather than one succulent type repeated across the bowl.
Are fake succulents and artificial succulents the same thing?
Yes, and Designer Plants uses artificial throughout. A fake succulent has one advantage over the living plant beyond the watering: there is no soil in the bowl, so nothing attracts fungus gnats, which is the usual reason a real desk succulent becomes a problem in an air-conditioned office.
Can these artificial succulents be used outdoors?
None of the five pieces on this page are UV rated, so they belong indoors or under solid cover. For succulent forms built to live outside permanently, the UV-resistant agaves and yuccas in succulents, yellow tongues and agaves are the right range.
How is this range different from the artificial succulents and orchids collection?
This page is the small-format core: succulent bowls under 21cm plus a trailing stem. Artificial succulents and orchids carries the same bowls but adds flowering orchids from 35cm to 66cm and a 70cm bonsai, so it is the page to use when the display needs a flower and some height.
How long is the hanging string of pearls?
The string of pearl beads trails to 75cm, which is long enough to read from the top of a bookshelf or a kitchen cabinet down to about eye level. It is the only piece in this range with any vertical drop, and at $9.95 it is the lowest priced item on the page.
Do the succulent bowls come with the pot included?
Yes. Both are sold as a finished piece with the succulents already set into the vessel, so there is nothing to plant or arrange. The marble pot and the round decorative bowl are part of the product rather than an add-on, which is why the two sit at different prices despite the similar size.
Why are there only five products in this succulent range?
Because the range is scoped tightly to compact bowls rather than padded out with larger plants that belong elsewhere. The taller and more architectural succulent forms are in succulents, yellow tongues and agaves, and snake plants have their own range, which keeps each page honest about what it holds.
How are artificial succulents cleaned?
Succulent rosettes trap dust between the leaves where a brush cannot reach, so the quickest method is a hairdryer on its cool setting held about 20cm away. For a heavier build-up, run the bowl under a slow tap and shake it out, then leave it upside down for an hour before returning it to the desk.
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Commercial Grade. Made for Lasting Impact.
Small succulent bowls are specified for hot-desking floors, co-working fit-outs, dental surgeries and short-stay accommodation, where a plant has to survive with nobody assigned to look after it.
Sized for a workstation. At 19cm and 20.5cm these fit beside a monitor without competing for desk space, which is the practical reason planted greenery usually gets removed from an office floor.
Nothing to spill. There is no soil, no saucer and no water, so these sit directly on veneer, on paperwork or on a reception counter without a mat underneath.
Built to repeat. The two bowls are the simplest way to put something green on fifty desks at once, and they arrive planted so there is no assembly line on install day. Quantities can be confirmed on 1800 617 341.
Pot finishes are shown on each product page.
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