Striking Succulent Gardens
Plants and Plans for Designing Your Low-Maintenance Landscape [A Gardening Book]
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher 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.
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Frank, founder of the landscape design firm Gardens by Gabriel, champions succulents as "a user-friendly addition to any garden" in his instructive, entertaining debut. He parses the differences between succulents and cacti ("all cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are cacti"), busts watering myths (the plants "do, indeed, need and enjoy occasional water"), and instructs on propagation (such as stem and leaf cutting). He shares tips for small spaces, encouraging city-dwelling gardeners to draw out a plan if space is tight, and addresses cold climate needs. He also instructs on building planters and shares helpful garden design advice (such as incorporating "repeating elements that contribute unity to the space"), all of which is enlivened by vibrant photos and his playful approach: "plan your garden vignettes as you would decorate for a party. Develop a theme, and then invite the guests that will bring your plans to fruition." Frank will inspire gardeners at all levels to turn their eye to succulents.
