Succulents Simplified: Growing, Designing, and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Varieties [Paperback]

“Demystifies these popular low-water beauties.” —Country Gardens Magazine

Whether you’re a novice or veteran, have an acre to fill or a just few pots, or live in Calexico or Canada, Succulents Simplified is a dazzling primer for success with succulents! Debra Lee Baldwin, the Queen of Succulents, profiles the 100 top plant picks and includes basic information on 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. 
 

Debra Lee Baldwin, an award-winning photojournalist, is widely hailed as the “Queen of Succulents.” She helped launched the gardening world’s interest in succulents with her first book,Designing with Succulents, and with her two other booksSucculent Container GardensandSucculents Simplified. Baldwin’s own half-acre garden has been featured inBetter Homes and Gardens,Sunset,San Diego Home and Garden, and other publications.

Introduction
When people ask me how I became interested in succulents, I tell them I toured an amazing succulent garden on assignment for theSan Diego Union-Tribune. Horticulturist Patrick Anderson and his aloe garden opened my eyes to the beauty of succulents and their potential in garden design.

Yet even as I say this, around the edges of my awareness floats a much earlier memory. I was eight or nine years old when I went with my mother to a home in a wealthy community for an occasion I don’t remember. When we returned home, my mother described the house to my father: "Big picture windows, but imagine having to clean them. Views of the golf course, but the property is too steep. Surrounded by trees, but they lã.