Succulents Simplified

Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604693932
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Succulents are hot. 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, drought-tolerant plants. 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!

Succulents Simplified

Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1604695161
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 734

Book Description
Succulents Simplified is a complete primer on choosing, growing and designing with succulents.

Designing with Succulents

Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604692960
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 574

Book Description
Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, Designing with Succulents gives design and cultivation basics for paths, borders, slopes, and containers; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and descriptions of 90 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Beginners and experienced designers, landscapers, and collectors alike will find what they need to visualize, create, and nurture the three-dimensional work of art that is the succulent garden.

Succulent Container Gardens

Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 088192959X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
Define your individual style. 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.

Planting Designs for Cactus & Succulents

Author: Sharon Asakawa
Publisher:
ISBN: 1591865611
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
In Planting Designs for Cactus & Succulents, a book made for the gardener and non-gardener alike, you'll find information and design inspiration for more than twenty attractive, low-maintenance planting projects.

Hardy Succulents

Author: Gwen Moore Kelaidis
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1603426825
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 532

Book Description
Add a touch of the unexpected to your garden. From agaves to ice plants and sedums to sempervivums, hardy succulents can bring color, texture, and versatility to perennial flower beds in any climate. This comprehensive guide offers clear growing instructions accompanied by vivid photography of these durable and beautiful plants. With tips on choosing the right varieties for every North American hardiness zone, you can enjoy all the quirky vibrancy of succulents wherever you live.

Succulents

Author: Robin Stockwell
Publisher: Sunset
ISBN: 9780848749477
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Inspiring, practical and richly photographed, this comprehensive guide offers creative ideas and DIY projects using beautiful low-maintenance, water-wise plants Succulents are the ultimate easy-care plant: versatile, effortless to grow both indoors and outdoors, and drought tolerant. From Aloe and Agaves, to Senecio and Taciveria, this handbook by leading garden expert Robin Stockwell highlights 200 of the easiest, most useful, and gorgeous plants, and shares advice on care and cultivation. Readers will find inspiration for imaginative and exciting new ways to use succulents in striking garden designs, containers, vertical walls, and indoor arrangements, as well as step-by-step projects, such as living bouquets and terrarium ornaments. This is the essential reference for landscapers, home gardeners, and anyone looking for a thorough introduction to the perfect plant for modern times.

Striking Succulent Gardens

Author: Gabriel Frank
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0399580999
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Design a succulent garden of your own, with inspiration, advice, and instructional step-by-step projects for container gardens, small-space gardens, mixed gardens, and more. You can't help but be mesmerized by the eye-catching geometric forms and jewel-toned colors of succulents. But how do you grow these beauties in your own garden? One of the only books dedicated to succulent garden design, Striking Succulent Gardens is a stylish, modern gardening book for beginners and enthusiasts alike. Known for his colorful approach and bold use of varied textures and shapes, garden designer Gabriel Frank offers practical ideas, simple concepts, stunning full-color photography, step-by-step instructions for a dozen different gardens, plant recommendations, basic succulent care, and an inspired approach to creating living art in your own garden. For those in colder climates, there is a list of cold-hardy succulents and advice for bringing container gardens indoors for the winter, making succulent gardens achievable no matter where you live. Tough, water-wise, wildly popular, and nearly indestructible, succulents will transform your outdoor space, providing gardens of every size with minimal maintenance and maximum impact.

The Gardener's Guide to Succulents

Author: Misa Matsuyama
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462921310
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
The Gardener's Guide to Succulents is a stunning visual reference identifying over 125 plants from 40 different genera of succulents and cacti. Fleshy, spiny, hairy, flowering--and coming in every imaginable shape, color and size--this plant family has captured the affection of plant enthusiasts all over the world. This book provides a beautiful overview of the diversity that succulents have to offer, presenting a wide variety of popular plants to help you create striking, aesthetically pleasing compositions. This succulent guide includes information about: What each variety needs and where it thrives Plant characteristics, with ratings on ease of growth and maintenance requirements Ideas for group plantings and illustrated tips on indoor planting Striking identification photos, rich in color and contrast This succulent encyclopedia is a useful resource for everyone--from cacti beginners looking to decorate their living space to serious gardeners hoping to expand their succulent plantings.

Taco Titan

Author: Debra Lee Baldwin
Publisher: Bookworld Services
ISBN: 9781565302990
Category : Fast food restaurants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Meet the 'Bell' in Taco Bell. At 16, Glen Bell rode the rails across America looking for work, he built an innovative restaurant near a drive-in owned by brothers named McDonald, who borrowed his ideas. His early partners were entertainer Phil Crosby and L A Rams football stars, he was a mentor to employees who later founded Wienerschnitzel and Del Taco. Glen expanded Taco Bell nation-wide, then sold it for $130 million and today at Bell Gardens, he uses wealth to benefit children, runs his own train, and battles disability with the same determination he used to build Taco Bell.