If you'd like to try a living plant wall but don’t want to spend a ton of money, I share how to use Dollar Tree plants to create a living wall in this tutorial. Shopping at Dollar Tree stores gives you access to a wide variety of products to help create your own DIY home decor. Dollar Tree florals are surprisingly good quality and realistic for the price. You can also mix and match from other budget-friendly stores to create this artificial living wall decor. Keep reading and watch the video to learn how to make this Dollar Tree DIY Faux Living Wall.
Gather supplies. I used an old farmhouse sign measuring 28 x 40 for my backing and I ended up using 12 large square pegboards.
Arrange the pegboards on the sign to your desired look and to make sure your pegboards fit inside your frame Dollar Tree carries various pegboard shapes and sizes so you can play around with what works for your project.
Use the pegboard adhesive kinks to attach the bottom pegboards to the sign. Fair warning, these adhesives are very sticky and almost impossible to remove! I only used 1 kink per pegboard for this sign and glued the rest for support.
To attach the kink, simply push the kink circle into the pegboard circle on the back of the pegboard.
I used Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue to hold the sides of the pegboards together. Make sure to align the sides of the pegboard where the notches meet.
Attach various greenery and succulents to create a beautiful artificial living wall. I used faux boxwood from Target Bullseye Playground, Monstera Leaves from Ikea and various Dollar Tree florals that I linked in the supply list.
Arrange the plants as you would if they were living pants. Keep like items together in bunches to create fullness. I attached the boxwood square by pushing succulents through it like a push pin. You may need to use some wire cutters to clip the ends short enough to fit through the pegboard holes.
If you ever get tired of the faux plant wall decor, you can easily remove stems and use the pegboard frame to organize many other items in your home decor!