Designing with Succulents


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Lavishly illustrated with over 300 photographs, Designing with Succulents gives design and cultivation basics for paths, borders, slopes, and containers; hundreds of succulent plant recommendations; and descriptions of 90 easy-care, drought-tolerant companion plants. Beginners and experienced designers, landscapers, and collectors alike will find what they need to visualize, create, and nurture the three-dimensional work of art that is the succulent garden.




Simple Succulents


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Grab your pencils and get ready to explore the budding world of cacti and succulents! Featuring 25 unique illustrations, this travel-size book is the perfect way to relax as you immerse yourself in the pages. One-sided printing keeps each drawing clean and makes it easy to share or display your masterpieces!




A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids


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With step-by-step project instructions for building unique and kid-friendly terrariums, family time has never been more fun! Crafting a terrarium boosts confidence, develops motor skills, and combines imagination and creativity with a dash of hands on science. Together you'll learn how to pick the best container for your miniature landscape, fill it with the best plants, and add decorative elements to make it your own. Plus, with quick and simple lessons on ecosystem functions, kids and their grown-ups can both tap into their inner "science geeks" to grow a miniature world in glass. Includes fully illustrated plans to: Grow a Zen-like landscape with "living rocks", Set up a mini peat bog, complete with a collection of carnivorous plants, Make an aquatic terrarium with marimo moss balls (and maybe a fish or mini shrimp!), Go low-maintenance with a hanging terrarium of air plants, Build a plant-filled habitat for a praying mantis, Use moss to craft tiny rolling hills in a mini mountain scene, Get prehistoric with a dinosaur bone terrarium, With A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, your family can be imaginative, have fun, and get growing-together! Book jacket.




Succulents Simplified


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Succulents are hot. And Debra Lee Baldwin, the bestselling author of Designing with Succulents and Succulent Container Gardens, is the ideal guide for gardeners, crafters, and DIYers looking for an introduction to these trendy, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant plants. Along with gorgeous photos packed with design ideas, Debra offers her top 100 plant picks and explains how to grow and care for succulents no matter where you live. Step-by-step projects, including a cake-stand centerpiece, special-occasion bouquets, a vertical garden, and a succulent topiary sphere, will inspire you to express your individual style. Whether you’re a novice or veteran, have an acre to fill or a few pots, live in Calexico or Canada, Succulents Simplified is a dazzling primer for success with succulents wherever you live!




Succulent Container Gardens


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Define your individual style. With their colorful leaves, sculptural shapes, and simple care, succulents are beautiful yet forgiving plants for pots. If grown in containers, these dry-climate jewels—which include but are not limited to cacti—can be brought indoors in winter and so can thrive anywhere in the world. In this inspiring compendium, the popular author of Designing with Succulents provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create stunning container displays of exceptionally waterwise plants. The extensive palette includes delicate sedums, frilly echeverias, cascading senecios, edgy agaves, and fat-trunked beaucarneas, to name just a few. Easy-to-follow, expert tips explain soil mixes, overwintering, propagation, and more.




Make Your Own Terrarium Kit


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Create your own enchanting miniature ecosystem with the instruction and materials in this DIY terrarium kit—just add plants and your own creativity! Maybe you’ve seen terrariums line the shelves of your favorite shop, their uniquely shaped jars showcasing a variety of plants. They look so lovely—and with good reason: building a terrarium is so much more than just plunking a few plants into a jar; it is actually designing a modern indoor garden under glass. And with Make Your Own Terrarium Kit, you can partake in this wonderful world of creating a natural, enclosed landscape. Bring a bit of nature into your life with this kit, which includes: 32-page illustrated project book with all the terrarium basics, including how to pick the best plants to buy Acrylic vessel that’s perfect for air plants, cacti, and succulents—and won’t break! Moss stone to add visual interest Decorative pebbles Fine decorative sand Long-handled tweezers to help you place your objects just right The beautiful thing about terrariums—aside from their appearance—is that they’re relatively maintenance free. With step-by-step project instructions for building a unique terrarium, the project book shows how to pick the proper plant for your miniature landscape and add decorative elements to make it your own; also included are care instructions and trouble-shooting tips. Though each terrarium project is as individual as you are, you’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to build terrariums for: Easy-care rosette succulents Wonderfully versatile air plants Plus additional inspiration for creating different terrarium environments Combining nature, gardening, and interior design, creating and keeping a terrarium is inspirational and therapeutic. Once you know the basics, you can mix and match for an endless variety of easy and affordable projects. The best part is you don’t have to be a plant expert to create fun, living landscapes. All you need is your imagination, some plants—and this kit!




Violet Tendencies


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Who could object to a flower festival? The owners of a Portland floral boutique are about to find out—and get to the root cause of a murder . . . Britta Johnston and her aunt Elin are delighted that their Portland floral boutique is part of the city’s Rose Festival, which draws thousands to the Pacific Northwest for dragon boat races, fireworks, and other attractions—capped off by a big parade. They’re building a float that’s sure to rock the judge’s boat . . . until a gang of angry protestors shows up. The group, who call themselves Dark Fusion, are decidedly not into flower power, and they want to take down the system—including the upcoming extravaganza. Then their leader is strangled with a garland of violets—and Britta finds the body. With tensions running high and so much at stake, there are plenty of suspects, from the Grand Marshal to a longtime volunteer to a former Rose Queen. But before Britta and Elin can stem the violence, the case is going to get even more explosive . . .




The Art of Creating with Succulents


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"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein With this quote, the author encourages us throughout the book to contemplate nature (in this case, with succulents as protagonists) to reveal what inspires us and access that creative potential that struggles to find expression. The Art of Creating with Succulents has that vocation. Connect with the Earth, make us feel its essence. Succulents are a perfect example of that invincible vitality that animates existence and ourselves in it. The art of designing with these beautiful plants can take the form of a myriad of gardening projects, with a great range of decorative possibilities. These plants have earned a privileged place in this century, revolutionizing modern gardening. In this book, among experiences, projects, botanical techniques, and anecdotes, the author provides a passionate and detailed guide on growing succulents to get closer to Mother Nature, and along the way, our spirit.




You Grow, Gurl!


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Discover the joys and self-nurturing benefits of plant parenthood, from learning how to begin building your own lush plant family to getting into those fun tips on how to care for your green gurls, with this beautiful, illustrated guide from the dazzling creator of the @plantkween Instagram account. “We all love some new growth, dahling.” Six years ago, Christopher Griffin was just beginning the plant parenthood journey with one small Marble Queen Pothos. Today, this Black Queer non-binary femme plant influencer known as Plant Kween tends to a family of more than 200 healthy green gurls in the Brooklyn apartment they call home. You Grow, Gurl! is Kween’s fun and fabulous guide to becoming a plant parent and keeping your green gurls growing and thriving. Anyone can be a plant parent! It’s all about TLC—taking the time and energy to focus on a plant’s needs, and ultimately your own. Featuring 200 full-color photos and illustrations, practical instructions and tips—on everything from propagating to measuring humidity to repotting—activities, and stories, this fun and joyful guide shows how to green-up any space and have it serving those lush lewks. Self-care takes many forms and tending to your plants’ needs helps you grow too. In addition to information and advice on plant care, Kween provides meditations, mindfulness activities, playlists, and more to help you practice self-care through plant-care. As Kween says, “We can learn a lot about how we treat ourselves, how we treat others, and how we navigate the world from these green lil creatures.” Healing and growing your heart, body, and soul takes time, love, and focus. Taking care of plants teaches you to apply that same attention and love to yourself and helps you find new pathways to explore on your own botanical adventure to self-love.




The Garden Refresh


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A fresh take on designing a home garden, with a focus on staying on a budget without sacrificing style.