Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants |  | Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher: Timber Press
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Pages: 248
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 1
ISBN: 088192959X
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9525
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Publication Date: January 20, 2010
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Product 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.
Book 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.
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Another brilliant effort from Debra Lee Baldwin January 20, 2010
Robert Dean (San Diego, CA)
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
"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
Succulent container design secrets revealed February 24, 2010
J. Bishop (San Diego, CA, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a garden designer, I've long known the benefit of adding colorful succulents to take a mundane garden to the next level. Adding a pot of succulents to the center of a table creates a semi-permanent floral arrangement; a colorful urn spilling over with succulents focuses attention at the end of long walkway. Debra Balwin's new book "Succulent Container Gardens" shows how to create magical combinations that can transform gardens of any size into living works of art. Besides showing individual pots, succulents, and design combinations there seems to an almost infinite array of ideas about how to display containers in the garden. The gorgeous photography is supplemented with Debra's usual wonderful text and captions...and for adjective-challenged people like me I now have "egg shaped" euphorbia and "turn upward, like eels" crassula rupestris to add to my succulent description vocabulary. I always take Debra's previous book "Designing with Succulents" on garden consultations and will now also include "Succulent Container Gardens".
Jim Bishop
Bishop Garden Design
A Stimulating & Inspirational Book April 9, 2010
Dawn Killen-Courtney (St. Louis Park,, MN United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
easy and interesting March 24, 2010
Maryellen Mckee (California)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I recieved my book and have only briefly looked over it but I was very pleased. I was able to quickly look up questions I had and the author had enough information for me to use. The author gives example that a beginner like myself can use or more advanced succulent gardener could appreciate. The photos are beautiful and generous throughout the whole book. I was really happy with this purchase and would recomend it. This book insn't so much of a "how too", so if your looking for step by step,look elsewhere. The title of this book doesnt suggest it's a how too, i just want to help any buyers to know what their getting. This would be a nice gift. The ideas in this book are creative and inspiring!! AAA's all around from me.
Unique Patio Garden Book on Native Succulent Plant Designs February 13, 2010
Magickal Merlin (Death Valley-SoCal)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This wonderful plant book is a keeper.It has so many good ideas for growing beautiful xerophile flowering plants.Rather than having none,use native species that won't wither away.Many good ornamental container ideas.The various creations enhance the patio atmosphere and improve the richness of the surrounding environs.Smart ideas and practical solutions to common gardening situations.With the 'El Nino' effect ,many summers seemed quite dry.I hope the weather pattern returns to normal soon.This book is an excellent reference and will become a classic among serious gardeners.
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