Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants Author: Debra Lee Baldwin | Language: English | ISBN:
B003852K4S | Format: EPUB
Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants Description
With their colorful leaves, sculptural shapes, and simple care, succulents are beautiful yet forgiving plants for pots. If grown in containers, these dry-climate jewels—which include but are not limited to cacti—can be brought indoors in winter and so can thrive anywhere in the world.
In this inspiring compendium, the popular author of
Designing with Succulents provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create stunning container displays of exceptionally waterwise plants. The extensive palette includes delicate sedums, frilly echeverias, cascading senecios, edgy agaves, and fat-trunked beaucarneas, to name just a few. Easy-to-follow, expert tips explain soil mixes, overwintering, propagation, and more.
Define your individual style as you effectively combine patterns, colors, textures, and forms. Discover how top designers interpret the dramatic options, in ideas ranging from exquisite plant-and-pot combinations to extraordinary topiaries and bonsai. Expand your repertoire with plump-leaved plants that resemble pebbles, stars, and undersea creatures. Short on space? Create vertical gardens and hanging baskets, and use daisylike rosettes in wall displays.
Each of the more than 300 photographs offers an inspiring idea. A-to-Z descriptions cover 350 of the best succulents, plus companion plants. Whether your goal is a gorgeous potted garden for a sunny windowsill or outdoor living area—or simply making great gifts—this is a comprehensive primer for creating vibrant, living works of art.
- File Size: 17259 KB
- Print Length: 248 pages
- Publisher: Timber Press (January 20, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003852K4S
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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"Succulent Container Gardens" is a must have. Every home gardener, succulent admirer and professional designer should rush to buy this beautifully constructed and organized work. With the trend toward water wise plants and water conservation in our gardens this book puts it's best foot forward in helping us develop strategies to conserve water. It proves that container plantings don't have to be short lived annuals requiring high maintenance to be striking and wonderfully designed. As Landscape Architects we are working more consistently with Clients who are requesting succulents, both for their gardens and container plantings. You will want to keep this great book close to you for reference.
Robert Dean, RLA #2322
Steve Wichmann, RLA #3777
Garner Wichmann Dean - Landscape Architects
By Robert Dean
I'm just getting into succulents. I have currently got no other house plants, and have always harbored an interest in these varied and unusual plants, so I finally took the plunge and got a small collection with a mind to making up some sort of container garden, but just as quickly realized I knew next to nothing about succulents other than that they are hardy and don't require much water. Now what? I asked myself. Off to my library site where I luckily happened upon this book by a very talented woman. Instead of regretting what I got myself into, or being intimidated by it all, her palpable passion for these plants combined with equal parts passion for art and design has me so fired up I can't wait to begin my own small first attempts at a succulent arrangement, plus I'm making up a gift plant of Echeveria for a friend, with an eye (newly learned) for contrast and repetition!
Baldwin has such an eye for form, movement and color that it's just plain fun to follow along through the book and see what she sees! Truly, she is an inspiration, and I can't recommend this book highly enough. It is so well organized, and covers just about everything. I'm so glad I found this delight.
By Dawn Killen-Courtney
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