Succulents for Your Home and Garden by Gideon Smith (.ePUB)
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Succulents for Your Home and Garden: A Guide to Growing 191 Beautiful Varieties & 11 Step-by-Step Crafts and Arrangements by Gideon Smith, Jessica Surface
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Overview: A unique guide to growing and crafting with succulents!
One-of-a-kind book combines thorough guidance on caring for succulents with using them to create high-quality home décor, accessories, and crafts
191 varieties, including string-of-pearls, snake plant, burro’s tail, and many more, with plant profiles and details on care and propagation
11 step-by-step projects for easy to intermediate succulent crafts, including a wreath, fairy garden, wedding bouquet, and more, each with clear instructions and photos
Stunning gallery featuring 11 artisans and their creations, inspiration, and methods for creating succulent crafts
Co-author Gideon F. Smith is a renowned, award-winning expert in the field of succulents
Co-author Jessica Surface is a live succulent crafter, designer, and owner of Arosezen
Part gardening book and part craft book, Succulents for Your Home and Garden is an absolute must-have for anyone who loves succulents!
Succulents have become very popular in recent years and for good reason: There hardy little plants are incredibly resilient, colorful, and versatile for succulent gardens, landscaping, window boxes, flowerpots, terrariums, and floral arrangements, as well as endless DIY crafting options. Their unique shapes and colors make for interesting and intricate designs.
This complete guide will not only show you basic growing techniques for nearly 200 succulent varieties, but it will also show you how to make high-quality succulent crafts too!
The authors provide comprehensive overviews on how to grow 75 popular succulents, care for them, and propagate them, from the easy-to-grow hens and chicks plant to the ever-popular jade plant. Bonus plant profiles of another 116 succulent species are also presented, organized by family, including agave, aloe, sansevieria, and more.
Once you understand how to properly cultivate these plants, the craft projects section will inspire you to start creating beautiful, eye-catching home décor and accessories with succulents and a few other affordable materials. Featuring 11 accessible step-by-step succulent crafts — from a mirror frame, wreath, and Christmas tree topiary to a bridal bouquet, boutonniere, flower crown, and so much more — Succulents for Your Home and Garden is a one-of-a-kind succulent book that combines gardening insight with crafty inspiration!
An inspirational gallery features succulent creations and back stories from talented professionals, succulent enthusiasts, and DIYers including Diane Barnes of Artful Succulents, Amanda Ryan of Terracotta Corner, Toni Sicola of Succulents for Hire, and more.
The perfect gift for beginner to veteran home gardeners, terrarium enthusiasts, and crafters, Succulents for Your Home and Garden will give you tons of ideas to create succulent masterpieces of your own!
“The breathtaking photography in the artisan gallery and creative projects sections are a visual treat. With its well laid out and comprehensive information, this book is everything you will need to grow, care for, propagate, and craft with succulents whether you are a beginning or experienced succulent lover.”
—Kim Roman, author of How to Garden Indoors & Grow Your Own Food Year-Round: Ultimate Guide to Vertical, Container, and Hydroponic Gardening
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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