Succulents Simplified: Growing, Designing, and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Varieties Author: Debra Lee Baldwin | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DI9EPOW | Format: EPUB
Succulents Simplified: Growing, Designing, and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Varieties Description
Succulent plants are easy to grow and design with once you know the basics. And Debra Lee Baldwin, the bestselling author of Designing with Succulents and Succulent Container Gardens, is the ideal guide for gardeners, crafters, and DIYers looking for an introduction to these trendy, low-maintenance plants.
Succulents Simplified is a complete primer on choosing, growing and designing with succulents. Along with gorgeous photos packed with design ideas, Debra offers her top 100 plant picks and explains how to grow and care for succulents no matter where you live. Step-by-step projects, including a cake-stand centerpiece, special-occasion bouquets, a vertical garden, and a succulent topiary sphere, will inspire you to express your individual style.
Whether you’re a novice or veteran, have an acre to fill or a few pots, live in Calexico or Canada, Succulents Simplified is a dazzling primer for success with succulents wherever you live!
- File Size: 13743 KB
- Print Length: 272 pages
- Publisher: Timber Press (May 21, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DI9EPOW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,058 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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If you've been around the world of horticulture for any time, you're probably familiar with Debra Lee Baldwin's work with succulents. Her first two books, Designing with Succulents and Succulent Container Gardens, are still the most thoughtful, in-depth guides to those topics available. However, both of those books have so much information that you could say they are aimed more towards a deeply passionate hobbyist or a professional like myself, rather than the casual gardener.
In certain situations, I think it can be even more helpful to have a simpler reference which condenses the most actionable information available into one easy-to-use guide. That's where Debra's new book, Succulents Simplified, comes in.
Succulents Simplified has three sections:
? How to grow and design with succulents successfully
? How-to projects that showcase succulents
? Debra's top 100 easy-care succulents
Even though I'm a landscaping professional, I'm definitely no succulent expert, so having Debra's keep-it-simple tips for how to succeed with them are incredibly useful to me. She goes over everything from creating designs using the varied shapes, colors and textures of succulents, choosing the right location so they'll succeed, and the right way of maintaining these plants so they continue looking fresh. The information is presented in a clean, easy-to-peruse format with a lot of bullet points and lists making it easy to find the information you're looking for.
Then, the second section has eight gorgeous DIY projects to get you more enthused and involved in the succulent world, with each section having multiple pages of detailed how-to photos and instructions. Want to grow succulents in a low light situation?
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