Stylish Succulent Designs

Author: Jessica Cain
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1624148379
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
Professional-Quality Succulent Arrangements Made Simple! Add a splash of style to your home or garden with beautiful and lush succulent designs that are simple to make and will last for months. This how-to resource will guide you through 40 unique and creative projects using popular varieties of succulents, air plants and other easy-care botanicals. Learn to make a variety of living centerpieces, transform an old fountain into a succulent-filled garden or add sophisticated charm to your front door with a splashy hand-wired succulent wreath that’s easy to adapt to your preferred aesthetic. Botanical designer Jessica Cain has a project for every occasion or whim, whether you’re looking to add a statement piece inside your home, enhance your backyard with outdoor décor or incorporate succulents into a wedding or event. Best of all, because these arrangements are planted in soil or moss and include fail-proof care instructions, you’re creating long-lasting living art that will thrive. The possibilities are endless with these step-by-step, simple-to-follow projects that will fill your home with vibrant beauty.

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.

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.

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.

Crocheted Succulents

Author: Emma Varnam
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN: 9781784945046
Category : Crocheting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Here are 25 succulents that will never need watering, repotting or special plant food! Each crochet project is beautifully photographed and includes clear patterns and guidance. There is also a techniques section that gives clear instructions on all the skills you'll need to make the projects. -- Worldcat.

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!

Enchanting Embroidery Designs

Author: MiW Morita
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146292185X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Enchanting Embroidery Designs invites you to create your own world using bright thread colors and imaginative stitches. Full of motifs that are both simple and playful, from zany crocodiles, and cuddly cats to big-eared bats and stealthy ravens. This book invites you to be creative with its whimsical designs and step-by-step instructions--whether you use these projects as visible mending techniques or simply to add interest to a piece. The sweet scenes and cute characters are full of life and texture, making them at home on your favorite clothing, home accessories or wall hangings. The unusual and versatile designs in this book include: Cheery flowers on a broach Pretty pine trees on hanging ornaments A colorful curly sheep Fluffy and stormy clouds Bushy-tailed foxes Moss on stone and microorganisms in Petri dishes And more! Simple how-tos take you through every recommended stitch, while a section on combining colors will inspire you to try mixing and matching to create something new. There's also a section on turning your stitchery into embellishments you can use, wear and share. Put your imagination and hands to work with the help of this inspiring embroidery book.

Crochet Characters Soft & Snuggly Cacti

Author: Jana Whitley
Publisher: becker&mayer! Books
ISBN: 0760355215
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 82

Book Description
Look no further than Crochet Characters Soft & Snuggle Cacti for all your cute and cuddly crafting needs; this is one garden that is literally zero maintenance! Inspired by the popular Japanese crochet style of amigurumi, these easy-to-make succulent plants are totally customizable. All the plants and pots are designed to be interchangeable, you simply choose your favorite pot shape and color, then crochet any of the ten different types of cacti or succulents to go on top. Projects are arranged from easy to more challenging so you can advance your skills as you work through the book. Crochet Characters: Soft & Snuggly Cacti comes with everything you need to make two adorable projects--the moon cactus and the silver ball cactus--includes seven colors of yarn, a crochet hook, stuffing, embroidery floss, eye beads, and a tapestry needle. And best of all, no green thumb is required to keep these cute cactus babies alive, they’ll stay fresh and happy all year round!

Fine Foliage

Author: Karen Chapman
Publisher: St. Lynn's Press
ISBN: 9780985562229
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Foliage comes in a mind-boggling variety of color, shape and growth habit. But which ones complement each other and work best for the many garden situations people have? Fine Foliage gives the home gardener 60+ examples of plant combinations that work for every purpose, whether in sun or shade, path or meadow, porch or poolside. Each plant combination is introduced with an on-site photograph and "Why This Works" text, accompanied by individual close-up photos and quick-tip info about care, site, soil, zone and season - a complete "recipe" that even a beginner gardener can follow. Fine Foliage brings elegant, expert design and style to the garden and patio. Full color photographs throughout. Includes an index. Fine Foliage was named one of Amazon's "Best of the Year" garden books for 2013. The Garden Writers Association has recognized Fine Foliage with a 2014 Silver Award of Achievement The Garden Writers Association has also recognized Fine Foliage with a 2014 Gold Award of Achievement

Modern Macrame

Author: Emily Katz
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0399579583
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
The ultimate guide to creating and styling modern macramé projects in the home from top creative tastemaker and sought-after macramé artist Emily Katz. Macramé--the fine art of knotting--is an age-old craft that's undergoing a contemporary renaissance. At the heart of this resurgence is Emily Katz, a lifestyle icon and artist who teaches sold out macramé workshops around the world and creates swoon-worthy aspirational interiors with her custom hand-knotted pieces. Modern Macramé is a stylish, contemporary guide to the traditional art and craft of macramé, including 33 projects, from driftwood wall art and bohemian light fixtures to macramé rugs and headboards. The projects are showcased in easy to follow and photogenic project layouts, guiding both the novice and the more experienced crafter in a highly achievable way. Included with every project are thoughtful lifestyle tips showing how macramé can provide the perfect finishing touch for the modern, well-designed home--whether it's a hundred-year-old farmhouse, a sophisticated loft, or a cozy but stylish rental.