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Customers find this succulent gardening book packed with great ideas and useful suggestions, with beautiful pictures that provide a happy balance between visuals and text. The book is well-written and easy to read, making it understandable for beginners, and customers appreciate its organization, with one noting how it effectively combines shapes and colors with nature. They enjoy the color scheme and find the book entertaining.
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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.
Define your individual style as you effectively combine patterns, colors, textures, and forms. Discover how top designers interpret the dramatic options, in ideas ranging from exquisite plant-and-pot combinations to extraordinary topiaries and bonsai. Expand your repertoire with plump-leaved plants that resemble pebbles, stars, and undersea creatures. Short on space? Create vertical gardens and hanging baskets, and use daisylike rosettes in wall displays.
Each of the more than 300 photographs offers an inspiring idea. A-to-Z descriptions cover 350 of the best succulents, plus companion plants. Whether your goal is a gorgeous potted garden for a sunny windowsill or outdoor living area—or simply making great gifts—this is a comprehensive primer for creating vibrant, living works of art.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: A. Hans
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: “Garden of Eden in Your Home: Succulent Container Gardens”
Review: If you’re looking to enhance your interior design with breathtaking beauty, then this book is the perfect guide for you. “Succulent Container Gardens” is a treasure trove of information on how to create unique and stunning succulent displays in containers. From choosing the right plants to selecting the perfect containers, each step is carefully explained in this comprehensive manual.Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a novice, this book provides all the knowledge you need to create stunning succulent displays that will be the envy of all your friends. With stunning photographs and detailed instructions, you’ll learn how to choose the right plants for your climate and light conditions. You’ll also learn how to care for your succulents and how to create a design that suits your taste.The author, Susan Raynor, is a recognized expert in succulent gardening and has a wealth of knowledge to share with readers. Her passion for succulents and her eye for design make this book a must-have for anyone interested in gardening.With “Succulent Container Gardens,” you’ll have the tools you need to create a unique and beautiful display that will be the centerpiece of your home. From charming window boxes to stunning planter displays, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to create a garden of Eden in your home.
Reviewer: Patricia M. Harper
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Gift
Review: I purchased this for my daughter-in-law’s birthday. She loves it and has gotten numerous ideas for her garden in Arizona.
Reviewer: CrazyAboutBooks
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good gardening in pots with succulents book!
Review: This is an excellent book on showcasing succulents. The photography alone is worth the price of the book. I understand the author takes the photos herself. Having said that, this isn’t a how to book; it’s more about setting up gardens, primarily in pots but also has some emphasis on outdoor gardens. There is a section on care and lists in the back of which succulents need sun or will survive in less light, etc.Ms. Baldwin has written many books on succulents and I’m hard pressed to decide which to buy next. I found one here at Amazon a couple day ago by her that is more about care of succulents so perhaps I’ll get it next. I understand her fascination with succulents as they come in so many different shapes, sizes and even some colors such as blue. Many will bloom. They are not water hogs so they will mind their own business if one travels for a week and leaves them to their own devices. Overwatering is the worst thing one can do to a succulent or cactus. Great book.
Reviewer: VITAMIN J
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great resource!
Review: Would’ve given it 5 stars, but the cover of the book was beat up looking for being brand new, it’s flimsy and not a good type of cover for a “gardening” book, that you will use as a frequent resource and move around alot. I have not even gotten thru the whole book and moved it to different places in my house to read it and learn, not good, might remove it altogether, maybe stick it inside of the cover instead!
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best of all cacti-succulents garden books
Review: I have many Cacti-succulents books. but the finest yet is Debera lee Baldwin’s book, Succulent Container Gardens. Her design With Succulents is excellent also. since water is problem, I have decided to convert my back garden to a south-west type garden, using her stunning three tier fountain on page 153 filled with succulents of many colors and textures in the cracked fountain that I almost gave away. This will be the focal point of the twelfth hundred square feet formally grass area. from that, I will use other photos in her book to create mini Garden in the surrounding area. In another photo I saw dymondia ground cover page 135, which can be walked on for other areas, which almost looks painted on. You see, you can design the entire using her container photos, just plant directly in the ground rather then a container. I attended her slide presentation Malibu,CA, the closest of her presentation to where I live. She is very generous with her time in answering our questions. This is the way to do a (do-it-yourself in) garden in this precarious economy. Go For It!
Reviewer: Dee Dee
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book!
Review: I bought this because of the high ratings of others. It was a gift for a friend and she absolutely loved it. The information is endless and the photos are fantastic. Highly recommend.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Trust Me, Buy the Hard Copy
Review: This is an awesome book on container gardening. Ms. Baldwin accepted the challenge of demystifying succulents and how to grow them. And she did a wonderful job!She starts off by pairing plants with various pot types and styles. From there she talks about the many types of succulents along with some companion plants to consider. At the same time, you can see colorful photos with crisp detail. If you are a visual person like me, I can’t say enough good things about the importance of well-developed pictures.She talks about displaying your plants, the proper care and, lastly, she gives you some wonderful plant lists. If you are ever considering growing this family of plants, I would tell you to consider investing in the hard copy. It is money well-spent; you will get much use from this book.
Reviewer: Svenskajoy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An awesome book for succulent lovers.
Review: I have ordered quite a few books from Amazon, the only place to go for me. When I discovered Debra Lee Baldwin’s “Succulent Container Gardens” book, I tried to find it at my local library. They did not have it so I recommended they buy it. Almost immediately, they did, and I checked it out and loved it so much I had to have my own copy. It has LOTS of gorgeous colored photos of all the possibilities you can do with colorful succulents in pots. I’m a bromeliad lover, but I have since developed a great interest in the easy to grow (even inside) succulents. I highly recommend this book and her other book as well, “Designing with Succulents” for landscaping purposes outdoors.
Reviewer: J Fedz A
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Este libro me encanto, las fotografias son lindisimas y la readaccion en Ingles es muy clara de todo lo que lleva mantener un jardin de suculentas con macetas.El libro de pasta gruesa es maravilloso y el empaque y la entrega a tiempo.
Reviewer: Geoff Alderman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good
Reviewer: YDPB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Beaucoup de photos superbes qui donnent envie de faire pareil.J’aurais adoré trouver ce livre traduit en Français ! Je le recommande aux amoureux de succulentes.
Reviewer: Avinash
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Book contains good quality of imges
Reviewer: L Bristow
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book is crammed full of wonderful photographs of succulents planted to perfection – in every conceivable combination of colour, texture and size. The author has a brilliant eye for designing her own plantings and for appreciating the ideas of others. I bought it for an elderly, succulent-loving, relative but I liked it so much I ordered another for myself and it’s got me hooked. Of course it is written with the American climate mainly in mind but there’s a plant list for a range of climates. Wonderful ideas!
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