Designing with Succulents : 2nd Edition : Create a Lush Garden of Waterwise Plants

Designing with Succulents : 2nd Edition : Create a Lush Garden of Waterwise Plants
ISBN: 9781604697087
Publication Date: 1 October 2017

With updated plant lists, new photography, and beautiful featured gardens, this 10th anniversary edition of Designing with Succulents is essential for anyone who wants to create a lush garden of waterwise plants.

Succulents offer dazzling possibilities, requiring only minimal maintenance and very little water to remain lush and alluring year-round. And no one knows them better than the Queen of Succulents, Debra Lee Baldwin.

This new, completely revised second edition of her bestselling classic is a design compendium that is as practical as it is inspirational. Designing with Succulents shares design and cultivation basics; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and profiles of 50 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Featured gardens from designers and creative homeowners show the stunning potential of these otherworldly plants.

Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 photographs, you will find everything you need to visualize, create, and nurture a thriving, water-smart succulent garden.

About the Author

Debra Lee Baldwin, an award-winning photojournalist, is widely hailed as the "Queen of Succulents." Debra helped launched the gardening world's interest in succulents with her first book, Designing with Succulents, and with her two other books Succulent Container Gardens and Succulents Simplified. Debra's own half-acre garden has been featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Sunset, San Diego Home and Garden, and other publications.