Posts Tagged ‘Debra Lee Baldwin’
Use Crushed-Rock Top Dressing to Enhance Your Succulent Designs
Do consider using crushed-rock top dressing to enhance your succulent designs. In the ground or in pots, your succulent compositions will look and perform better if bare soil doesn’t show….
Read MoreA Dozen Reasons I Love Cacti
It’s a natural progression: As we gain appreciation for the lines, textures and shapes of succulents, we arrive at those that exhibit elegant simplicity—never mind that they have spines (in…
Read MoreMake a Succulent Mug Gift Bouquet
Mugs sold individually at home goods stores and secondhand shops make great gifts, especially when filled with succulent rosettes that suggest exotic flowers. Succulents wired onto faux stems are long…
Read MoreSucculent Garden Design Essentials
Succulent Garden Design Essentials How to design and plant your succulent garden. To ensure your success and help you avoid mistakes, here are a dozen succulent garden design essentials to…
Read MoreMy Must-Have Garden Tools for Spiny Succulents
Note: This corresponds to my Make a Mini High Desert Cactus Garden video. For more info on tools for cacti and succulents, go to the Tools page. The tools I…
Read MoreAre You a Plant Collector, Gardener or Both?
As she researched her book, The Bold Dry Garden, it dawned on Sunset’s garden editor Johanna Silver that plant collectors are not necessarily gardeners, and vice-versa. The subject, Ruth Bancroft,…
Read MoreCircular Succulent Garden
When I first saw fitness coach Amy Van Liew’s circular garden and spherical fountain, I envisioned how it might look replanted with colorful succulents. A great fountain and garden bed…
Read MoreSpring in My Succulent Garden: Flowers Wow with Bold, Hot Hues
My spring garden’s most vivid blooms are those of succulent ice plants. Aloes, bulbine and numerous arid-climate companions are bright and beautiful from March through mid-May. Increasing temps tend to…
Read MoreAnnouncing the Second Edition of Designing with Succulents!
Available for pre-order now. Ships Aug. 27, 2017 When publisher Timber Press proposed a celebratory 10th anniversary, second edition of Designing with Succulents, I figured all I’d have to…
Read MoreGreat Ideas from Patrick Anderson’s Garden
Below are a dozen great ideas from Patrick Anderson’s garden in Fallbrook, CA. But first, a bit of backstory… I wonder if Patrick remembers giving me a cutting of that…
Read MoreMake a Bouquet of Succulents
When I need a hostess gift, thank-you present, or an arrangement for a special friend, I make a bouquet of succulents. I start by selecting a coffee mug or…
Read MorePlants and Pots at the Cactus & Succulent Society Show
To see amazing succulents in elegant art pots, attend a Cactus & Succulent Society Show. The largest in the US is the annual Inter-City Show at the Los Angeles Arboretum…
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