Debra Lee Baldwin - Succulent Container Gardens: Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants

PRAISE FOR

Designing with Succulents

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Its inspiring, practical, and completea treasure for any gardener who loves these otherworldly beauties.

KATHLEEN N. BRENZEL, Sunset magazine

One cant help but be inspired by photographs that induce sighs and daydreams, and not a small amount of garden envy.

MARIANA GREENE, Dallas Morning News

Baldwin hit the mark with her detailed work. Her easy to understand writing style is user friendly to the backyard gardener, yet the breadth of information is just as appealing to the expert. Stellar photographs and detailed captions connect readers with plants that are little known and less often understood. Baldwin should be commended for what might be the best succulent landscaping book written to date.

MAUREEN GILMER, Scripps Howard News Service

A solid overview for landscape architects working with succulents.

Landscape Architecture

The advice given is wise and borne of the authors firsthand experience, full of great ideas with illustrations to match.

NIGEL TAYLOR, Gardens Illustrated

Succulent Container Gardens

Design Eye-Catching Displays with 350 Easy-Care Plants

DEBRA LEE BALDWIN

TIMBER PRESS
Portland * London

Frontispiece: Three pots illustrate the design principles of contrast and repetition. The tall pots texture repeats that of the Euphorbia flanaganii it contains; the red pot echoes the color of Echeveria Perle von Nurnberg; and the small terracotta pot is round like its sempervivum rosettes, which also present dainty multiples. California Cactus Center nursery, Pasadena, CA.

: A rolled-rim pot serves as a focal point for a garden vignette planted with opuntia cactus and Agave attenuata. Peggy Petitmermet garden, Elfin Forest, CA.

All photographs are by Debra Lee Baldwin unless otherwise credited.

Copyright 2010 by Debra Lee Baldwin. All rights reserved.

Mention of trademark, proprietary product, or vendor does not constitute an endorsement, guarantee, or warranty of the product by the publisher or author and does not imply its approval to the exclusion of other products or vendors.

Published in 2010 by Timber Press, Inc.

ISBN-13: 978-0-88192-959-1

Printed in China

Fourth printing 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Baldwin, Debra Lee.

Succulent container gardens : design eye-catching displays with 350 easy-care plants / Debra Lee Baldwin. 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-88192-959-1

1. Succulent plants. 2. Container gardening. I. Title.

A catalog record for this book is also available from the British Library.

TO JAMES

CONTENTS

Aloe variegata (partridge breast aloe) is beautiful but sensitive to overwatering. Gelfand-Misch garden, Santa Monica, CA. Design by Marilee Kuhlmann, Comfort Zones Garden Design, Los Angeles, CA.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to horticulturists and nursery owners who gave significant amounts of time to proofread part or all of the manuscript: Michael and Joyce Buckner of The Plant Man nursery, San Diego; Patrick Anderson; Dave Bernstein of Cactus Ranch nursery, Reseda, CA; Jeff Moore of Solana Succulents nursery, Solana Beach, CA; and Nick Wilkinson of Grow nursery, Cambria, CA.

Succulent experts Rosemarie Armstrong, Alan Beverly, Tom Glavich, Kelly Griffin, Steven Hammer, Jeff Harris, Panayoti Kelaidis, Bob Kent, Woody Minnich, and Ray Stephenson graciously shared their specialized knowledge. For contributing photos that enriched the text, my gratitude goes to Terri Collins of Washington; Davis Dalbok of Living Green, San Francisco; Iseli Nursery in Oregon; Mari and Andrew Malcolm of Seattle; Frank Mitzel of San Diego; Robin Lee Reed of Ohio; and Nick Wilkinson.

Designers, nursery owners, artists, and collectors whose creativity enhances these pages include Ken and Deena Altman, Altman Plants; Barbara Baker; Art and Sandra Baldwin; Randy and Heide Baldwin, San Marcos Growers; Barrels & Branches nursery; Gary Bartl; Sydney Baumgartner; Debi Beard; Jim Bishop; John Bleck; Charlene Bonney; Karla Bonoff; Brandon Bullard, Desert Theater; Mujiba Cabugos; Cambria Nursery and Florist; Louisa Campagna; Bette Childs; Anna Clark; Beverly and R. C. the King of Succulents Cohen; Mike Cone; Diane Dunhill; Linda Estrin; EuroAmerican Propagators; Phil Favell; David Feix; Mary Friestedt; Stephen Gabor; Scott Glenn; Anna Goeser and Pot-ted; Larry Grammer and the Thongthiraj sisters of California Cactus Center nursery; Whitney Green; Erik Gronborg; Flora Grubb and Kevin Smith of Flora Grubb Gardens nursery; Karen Haataja, Timberline Gardens nursery; Tita Heimpel, Courtyard Pottery; Buck Hemenway; Thomas Hobbs, Southlands nursery; Hap Hollibaugh, Cactus Jungle nursery; Jerry Hunter and Heather Hunter May, Rancho Soledad nursery; Evelyn Jacob and Mindy Rosenblatt; Tom Jesch, Daylily Hill nursery; Dan Johnson; Kara nursery; Sandy Koepke; Tony Krock and Margarita Huerta, Terra Sol Garden Center; Marilee Kuhlmann; Kathy LaFleur; Rob Lane; Heather Lenkin; Fran and Clint Levin; Rudy Lime; Sylvia Lin; Matthew Maggio; Wanda Mallen; Bonnie Manion; Sam Maybery, Seaside Gardens nursery; Mia McCarville, Cedros Gardens nursery; Pat McWhinney; Monty Montgomery; Laura Morton; Felix Navarro, The Juicy Leaf; Leo OBrian, Irvine Community Development Company; Peggy Petitmermet; Jolee Pink; Cleo Pirtle, Grewsome Gardens nursery; Ellen Spector Platt; Jim and Sally Prine; Margee Rader; Christi and Richard Reed; Sergio Regalado, Plantplay nursery; the Plum Beach Garden Club of Rhode Island; Al Richter; Mary Rodriguez; Rogers Gardens nursery; Suzy Schaefer; Carolyn Schaer; Schnetz Landscape; Eric Schrader, Bonsai Society of San Francisco; Bruce Shanks, Cottage Gardens of Petaluma & Bennett Valley; Joe Stead, Orange Coast College; Robin Stockwell, Succulent Gardens; Susan and Melissa Teisl and Leah Winetz, Chicweed; Tropic World nursery; Julie Vanderwilt; Howard Vieweg, Sunshine Gardens nursery; Vivai Piante Schiavo nursery; Pamela Volante; Peter Walkowiak; Molly Wood; Lynn Woodbury; Don and Jill Young; and Liz Youngflesh, Garden Glories nursery.