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Succulent Container Gardens

Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants
By Debra Lee Baldwin
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Succulent Container Gardens by Debra Lee Baldwin is an inspiring guide to growing colourful, sculptural succulents in containers. It offers expert advice on creating stunning displays using a wide range of drought-tolerant plants, including cacti, sedums, echeverias, and agaves. The book covers essential tips on soil, propagation, and overwintering, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced gardeners aiming to define their individual style with waterwise plants.
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This book is ideal for garden enthusiasts of all levels seeking to create beautiful, easy-care succulent displays. It particularly suits those interested in waterwise gardening and container planting, as well as anyone wanting to bring vibrant, sculptural plants indoors during winter.

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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 using succulents to create vibrant, living works of art.

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Define your individual style. With their colourful 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 Succulent Container Gardens 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.

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Praised for its inspiring photographs and practical advice, the book is celebrated for bringing succulents to life in imaginative container designs. Booklist highlights its extensive, experience-based information, while the Los Angeles Times appreciates the creative use of everyday objects as planted arrangements. Gardens Illustrated recommends it for helping gardeners successfully grow and maintain succulents. Additional acclaim from Chicago Sun-Times and Sunset emphasizes its visual appeal and accessible ideas.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9780881929591

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 January 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Timber Press

Illustration: 310 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 900g

Pages: 248

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About the Author

Debra Lee Baldwin, an award-winning photojournalist, is widely hailed as the Queen of Succulents. She helped launched the gardening world s interest in succulents with her first book, Designing with Succulents, and with her two other books Succulent Container Gardens and Succulents Simplified. Baldwin s own half-acre garden has been featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Sunset, San Diego Home and Garden, and other publications.

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