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I love this site:

http://www.cactuslimon.com/cactuslimongifts.htm

and the above is a flat of mixed succulents for $85 you could plant your own for less than a third of the price of the one you saw.

I've been coveting those planters since seeing them in Berkeley this past January. However, any living thing I buy for that price better have fur and an impressive pedigree. I plan on modifying these directions from Martha to make my own succulent planter on the cheap:

Martha's succulent terrariums

I have managed to kill succulents. I don't know how I did it, but I did. How often should you water these suckers? Maybe mine weren't getting enough sun and I should open up my semi-sheer curtains? I just live on the first floor and like my privacy ha, and they let in enough light that it seems bright to me. Maybe my plants are a lil more picky?

garrett - i kill all plants, but i won a cool pot of succulents and ignored them outside for the last 2 years and they're doing great. so great in fact that i spent the afternoon pulling off the leaves and planting them in special organic dirt for succulents and cactus. so i think the trick is to ignore them outdoors and use the cactus dirt. don't use rich compost-y dirt. they don't like it apparently.

keep your fingers crossed that my little transplants don't die!!!!

Hmm, must not be enough direct sun for mine then. They're like 9 feet from the window and I just let light in through the curtains. Time to start again and remember to open the windows.