Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate

by Gwen Kelaidis

Book Overview

Add a touch of the unexpected to your garden. From agaves to ice plants and sedums to sempervivums, hardy succulents can bring color, texture, and versatility to perennial flower beds in any climate. This comprehensive guide offers clear growing instructions accompanied by vivid photography of these durable and beautiful plants. With tips on choosing the right varieties for every North American hardiness zone, you can enjoy all the quirky vibrancy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158017700X
• ISBN13: 9781580177009
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great information in this book! My Favorite of 3.

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.

A Real Eye Opener

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 Book

I love succulents. Before buying this book I did not relize the diversity of Sempervivums.

Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate

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 very special beauty and versatility

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