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Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate | 
| Author: Gwen Kelaidis
Creator: Saxon Holt
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 68957
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 159
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 9.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 158017700X
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9
EAN: 9781580177009
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate November 22, 2008
1 out of 2 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.
 how to love sedum November 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has wonderful photos.If you love sedum, gardening or
beauty in any form you will enjoy looking at the pages of this book.
Written so you feel you are conversing with a friend. Delightful to
read. May not give as much detailed information on growing conditions etc.but no other book I have found has any more.
Hardy Succulents; Tough Plants for Every Climate October 31, 2008
A good quality book that was shipped fast, I will be back later..... Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate
A very special beauty and versatility May 9, 2008
7 out of 7 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 Succulent May 5, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate Very informative and easy to understand. Great for Southern California gardeners.
Saved my Succulents from the over watering death!!!
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