Dry Climate Gardening with Succulents

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More than 250 color and 50 black-and-white illustrations
Compiled by North America's most acclaimed dry climate garden—the Huntington Botanical Garden in San Marino, California— in consultation with six other great botanic gardens and arboreta, here is the most complete and user-friendly guide to gardening with succulents ever devised, a unique compendium of the best advice available for all types of succulents.
The information assembled by this unprecedented collaboration is presented in five chapters:
I. Introduction: definitions, history, and botany; the basic gardening philosophies of the experts who have contributed to the book.
II. Plant Selector: more than two hundred glorious, full-color photos of succulent and companion plants of every variety, with detailed captions describing size, coloration, and requirements . . . full descriptions of their cultivation and maintenance, including some dissenting information and opinions from the consultant gardeners in other... Tovább

Fülszöveg

More than 250 color and 50 black-and-white illustrations
Compiled by North America's most acclaimed dry climate garden—the Huntington Botanical Garden in San Marino, California— in consultation with six other great botanic gardens and arboreta, here is the most complete and user-friendly guide to gardening with succulents ever devised, a unique compendium of the best advice available for all types of succulents.
The information assembled by this unprecedented collaboration is presented in five chapters:
I. Introduction: definitions, history, and botany; the basic gardening philosophies of the experts who have contributed to the book.
II. Plant Selector: more than two hundred glorious, full-color photos of succulent and companion plants of every variety, with detailed captions describing size, coloration, and requirements . . . full descriptions of their cultivation and maintenance, including some dissenting information and opinions from the consultant gardeners in other southwestern and northern gardens . . . additional color illustrations of landscapes, techniques particular to a specific plant, and its history in human affairs.
III. Design: the principles of designing a dry climate garden that is not only healthy and attractive, but creative as well, with photographs and diagrams of successful examples. Special attention is paid to the use of succulents with annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, and ground covers that will thrive in dry conditions.
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