A Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening: A Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Beautiful & Long-Lasting Succulents
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Adored for their charming shapes and colors, respected for their resilience and adaptability, and just plain fun to have around—succulents are the hottest home gardening trend today. A Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening is a friendly guide to popular succulents, walking novices through all the basics, like: Choosing your succulents—from Hens and Chicks (Echeveria) to bristly flowering cactus varieties Mixing the right soils for your succulents and preparing the growing environment Easy potting and transplanting techniques Succulent care—including watering, fertilizing and providing the right amount of sun for each variety Understanding peak periods as well as seasonal traits and needs, so you can have a beautiful succulent garden year-round This book contains all sorts of helpful tips on what to look for when buying a plant, how to troubleshoot when your succulent shows signs of distress, how to trim the leaves and stems, and how to start new plants from cuttings. Clear diagrams and at-a-glance fact sheets for each variety, as well as inspirational photos of attractively and happily-housed succulents, fill the pages of this book. Now is the time to give succulents a try! Let A Beginner's Guide to Succulent Gardening be your guide to get you started and grow your indoor garden one succulent at a time. Review: Very Helpful for Succulent Newbies! - I added this onto an order for some succulent pots after being given some succulent plants for Christmas. It was only a few bucks but is very helpful and useful if you've never taken care of succulent plants before. It has lots of great pictures and descriptions and is packed with information. I didn't think it would be much of anything for the price but it is a quality book, with a sturdy cover and glossy pages. Definitely worth the price, especially if you've had these plants foisted upon you and are wondering how the heck to keep from killing them. Review: Succulent information - This is a very informative book. I have referenced it more times than I can count. The pictures are beautiful and make it easy to identify the plant I’m looking for.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,481 Reviews |
E**B
Very Helpful for Succulent Newbies!
I added this onto an order for some succulent pots after being given some succulent plants for Christmas. It was only a few bucks but is very helpful and useful if you've never taken care of succulent plants before. It has lots of great pictures and descriptions and is packed with information. I didn't think it would be much of anything for the price but it is a quality book, with a sturdy cover and glossy pages. Definitely worth the price, especially if you've had these plants foisted upon you and are wondering how the heck to keep from killing them.
C**E
Succulent information
This is a very informative book. I have referenced it more times than I can count. The pictures are beautiful and make it easy to identify the plant I’m looking for.
C**2
A nice gift, but not useful for actual bonsai growing
Overall, a nice gift for a friend or relative, but don't expect the results indicated in the product description. I personally had below a 50% success rate, so your seeds may or may not grow into anything. Some of the negative aspects of my experience were as follows: 1. The soil discs were not packed well so the entire kit itself was covered in dehydrated soil creating a lot of dust upon opening. This may create some complications if you have strong allergies to dust/dirt or are planning to gift wrap the kit. 2. Some seed packs (namely the Brazilian Rosewood and Black Spruce) came in limited amounts of 4-5 seeds, whereas the other two seed packs had 12-15 seeds each. The Brazilian Rosewood seeds are also quite delicate and a good portion of them came chipped or broken when the kit arrived. As such, the Brazilian Rosewood seeds did not germinate. In addition, having a limited number of seeds decreases germination rates and the ability to "try again" if things don't work out the first time you sow the seeds. 3. There are no instructions on how to appropriately treat the D. Regia seeds. Apparently you need to use sand paper or some other tool to remove the hard outer shell in order for the seeds to germinate properly. I didn't do that the first time around and wasted seeds because I didn't know I needed to do that. It would've been helpful to have those instructions available at the time I sowed the seeds. 4. The bags/sacks provided to house the soil and seeds on initial sowing do not have holes in the bottom to drain water. As a result, you do need to be extra careful when watering as there is a high probability of mold forming. In addition, the wooden markers absorb water and can help facilitate the growth of mold if you insert them into the soil. I would recommend using a plastic marker or nothing at all.
M**A
Decent
I love this book! I am an absolute beginner and found this book to be extremely useful. The only thing I wished it addressed better was how to take care of the plant if you didn't want to put it outside at all. As an absolute beginner, I found this part a little confusing.
P**H
Great info about growing succulents
Great information about growing succulents indoor and outdoor. There are many beautiful pictures of succulents in planters and charts for each kind of plant for growing them outside. I plan to grow my plants inside so the pages of light and watering needs for different reasons did not apply to my needs but for those who do plant outdoors this would be excellent knowledge.
C**L
Not happy
Not what I thought it would be. Not very happy.
R**L
A good book for any one looking to grow and care for succulents
This book is one of the best out there. I've ordered hundreds of dollars in plants over the last few months and I've got them all in excellent condition and this book has helped me to keep them happy and very healthy. I love all the extra info it has included
S**S
Step by step directions with lots of charts and illustrations.
Beautiful book! It was easy to read and showed step by step directions on how to plant and grow succulents. I am so excited to give it to my daughter for her birthday as she loves the little plants.
A**E
So informative , easy to understand information.
Great picture too , with a step by step instructions on how to look after your succulent. Good sized book , well written & illustrated. Colourful design & well laid out. Came in perfect condition.
S**S
Amazing
Very pretty and useful guide for plant lovers.
A**R
Lots of good information.
I like this book because it is for beginners. It has a lot of information and good tips.
T**Y
Good book for succulent plants and in house plant beginner
A good book for succulent plant beginner.
C**E
No lo dudes, compralo
Excelente libro, me sorprendió su calidad. Muy buen contenido
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