Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate |  | Author: Gwen Kelaidis
Creator: Saxon Holt
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Pages: 159
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 9.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 158017700X
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9525
EAN: 9781580177009
ASIN: 158017700X
Publication Date: February 20, 2008
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Product Description
From agaves to ice plants, and from sedums to sempervivums, hardy succulent plants bring beauty, versatility, and intrigue to perennial gardens in every hardiness zone. No longer relegated to desert climates, succulents offer extraordinary color, texture, durability, and ease of care. It's no wonder succulents are some of the hottest plants to capture the attention of enthusiastic growers in all zones.
Hardy Succulents gives gardeners everything they need to know to select, grow, and maintain these dazzling, low-fuss plants. With step-by-step growing instructions, practical care tips, creative ideas for use, and stunning photographs from acclaimed garden photographer Saxon Holt, this book is as beautiful as it is practical — one that will appeal to novices and experienced gardeners alike.
Gwen Kelaidis, an avid horticulturist and garden designer, provides a comprehensive overview of these unusual beauties, including tips for purchasing, planting, weeding, and dividing. She encourages gardeners to consider the plants when searching for autumn color and explains how succulents can solve common, and confounding, garden problems.
Presented alongside Holt's captivating, cover-to-cover images, her insights are sure to inspire growers of all levels and climates. Readers will delight in succulents' unexpected colors — bronzes, grays, greens, and blues — as well as their distinct shapes.
The first book dedicated to bringing succulents to every North American hardiness zone, Hardy Succulents holds intriguing possibilities for gardeners looking for dramatic ways to make bold statements.
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 A very special beauty and versatility May 9, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Cacti and other succulents plants once thought isolated to dessert conditions can now be found in every horticultural zone bringing a very special beauty and versatility to even the most novice of gardener's efforts. "Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants For Every Climate" by Gwenn Moore Kelaidis (one of the foremost experts on Rock gardening, co-owner of the mail-order nursery Rocky Mountain Rare Plants, and who also operates a Denver-based garden design and installation company) is a beautifully illustrated instructional guide that is replete with step-by-step growing instructions, practical care tips, creative ideas and resources for the inclusion of these easy-to-grow plants within the context of virtually any garden design be it urban, suburban, or rural. Whether as ground covers, container plants, embedded with perennials, or used in emulation of shrubs, "Hardy Succulents" covers all these areas, as well as providing practical information that includes Reference Maps; a Glossary, Resources, and an Index. "Hardy Succulents" is a thoroughly 'user friendly' and prized addition to any personal, professional, or community library Gardening & Horticultural reference collection.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate November 22, 2008
K. Tsutsumida (Coastal CA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
As a collector and grower of succulents for over 40 years, I highly recommend this as an addition to your library. Living in Mediterranean climate areas all my life, I have found it difficult to find resources for growing non-cactus succulents and this fills another niche.
A Real Eye Opener March 6, 2010
Abby R. Scheibe
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not only does this book open your eyes to the true beauty of the succulent in the COLD climate, but also how to incorperate it into new and existing perennial beds...I cant wait to plant these amazing jewels this Spring!
Great information in this book! My Favorite of 3. July 22, 2010
Stephanie A. Howser
This is a very good book. It has a bunch of reading information that helped me in raising succulents.
It has a recipe for mixing your soil for succulents and
making your own containers of a cement mixture. I have made 6 so far.
Check it out! My favorite of the 3 I bought.
Great Book April 20, 2009
Michael Edward Romero Jr. (Alhambra, CA United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love succulents. Before buying this book I did not relize the diversity of Sempervivums.
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