Planting Designs for Cactus & Succulents: Indoor and Outdoor Projects for Unique, Easy-Care Plants in All Climates
$24.00
Authors: Sharon Asakawa and John Bagnasco
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Copyright: 2014
Number of Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781591865612
No green thumb? No problem!
Succulents are the ultimate low-care plants, able to withstand erratic rainfall, poor soil, and outright neglect—they almost never need pruning, watering, feeding, or fussing over. That, along with their astounding range of colors and forms, makes them ideal for those who want an attractive yet low-maintenance container planting or landscape view. In Planting Designs for Cactus & Succulents, a book made for the gardener and non-gardener alike, you’ll find information and design inspiration for adding these plants to your interior and exterior spaces. Authors Sharon Asakawa and John Bagnasco, with well over half a century of gardening experience between them, offer expert tips for selection, planting, and care, then show you how to beautifully incorporate cacti and succulents into your particular environment. More than twenty step-by-step how-to projects are paired with gorgeous photographic demonstrations, teaching you how to make your own terrariums, dish gardens, living “paintings,” xerispheres, bouquets and centerpieces, hair ornaments, natural walkways, birdhouse roofs, picture frames, seasonal arrangements, and more. Just when you’d given up, Planting Designs for Cactus & Succulents comes to the rescue as your comprehensive guide to the plants that can survive in some of the least nurturing environments on Earth—even if that happens to include your house.
Table of Contents:
- Dedications and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- LANDSCAPE ACCENTS
- Plant accents that bloom their heads off
- Weirdly Wonderful Collector's Choices
- INTERIOR ACCENTS
- Easy-Care and Unique Hemispheres
- Glamorous Bejeweled Garden
- Clay Dish Garden with Side Hobnail Containers
- WEDDINGS, PARTIES, AND SPECIAL EVENTS
- Here Comes the Bride (and Bridesmaids Too!) Bridal Bouquet
- Fascinating Fascinators
- Taking Center Stage: The Centerpiece
- Buoyant Enchantment
- Life is a Ball!
- RAISE THE WROOF!
- A Doghouse or Birdhouse Succulent Rooftop
- KID-FRIENDLY PROJECTS
- African Safari Garden
- Kid's Living Chalkboard Planting
- BACK-TO-NATURE PROJECTS
- A Pallet Garden
- Can Up Tin Cans
- Living Stones
- Hanging Pot Rack Chandelier
- Dry Bottle Gardens
- Wine Bottle Cork Rest
- SEASONAL ARRANGEMENTS
- "Spring" the Bird: Cage the Succulents
- Summertime: Somewhere Beyond the Sea
- Falling for Autumn: Fall Basket Arrangement
- Light Up Winter White
- OUTDOOR DECOR PROJECTS
- Low Clay Saucers
- A Living Succulent Table
- BASICS OF SUCCULENT PROPAGATION
- Resources
- Index
- Meet the Authors
Dimensions: 8.5" x 10"
