Succulents: Everything You Need to Select, Pair and Care for Succulents

by Cassidy Tuttle

With their unique shapes and striking colors, succulents make the most beautiful houseplants. They are simple to care for and grow easily indoors—perfect for novice plant caretakers and seasoned gardeners alike.

Succulents is your photographic, step-by-step guide to selecting, potting, and caring for your succulent plants.

From cacti to aloe to echeveria, succulents have captured the hearts of crafters, decorators, and plant lovers all over the world. Always popular as an outdoor plant in warm climates, succulents have also found popularity as an indoor plant that requires little maintenance and is fun to look at.

This book
  • Snapshots of 100 of the most popular varieties of succulent plants, including care, color, hardiness, pairing, and a full-color photo for each.
  • Everything needed to select, pair, pot, and care for succulent plants.
  • 16 beautiful craft projects with how-to steps and color photos, including picture frames, wreaths, terrariums, centerpieces, and bouquets.
  • Tips on successfully propagating new succulents from existing plants.
  • Extensive advice on choosing pots and unique planters, repotting succulents, and pairing varieties for maximum impact.
  • An index of succulents by color and height that gives readers another tool for selecting the succulents that will look best.

This book is the only tool you’ll need to become a confident designer and caretaker of your very own beautiful, thriving succulent garden!

Genres: Plants, Gardening

708 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 21, 2022

Reviews

[Crystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like the easy directions, arrangement ideas, and in the end of the book, there’s different names of succulents, with pictures and care instructions with ways symbols. The end of the book also groups the succulents are by color, and maturing height

[Y T · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting and easy read for anyone interested in succulents. I’ve learnt the key things about blending the arrangements, different styles of the pots and colours being complementary of or contrast to each other. All these matter in creating a beautiful arrangement.

A good bit of the book is like a mini reference section detailing the different succulents, how much light and water they need, etc. I found it really helpful to have the pictures to refer to.

Great read!

[luckykarmatx · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a nice resource for succulents. Might be too advanced for my purposes, as it includes information on how to arrange them in attractive arrangements. I'm not there in my gardening journey, but it does have lots of color photos to help with the identification and care of common succulents and a few hard to find ones.

[Kay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific resource! Worth every penny! Very practical.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Includes succulent wreath instructions, excellent pictures/descriptions of succulent varieties

[Valerie Sherman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of advice on specific plants; I loved the arrangement ideas. I'm propagating a bunch of succulents from leaves and I can't wait to get to the nursery to get some other ones to add to an arrangement together.

[Barbara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Very good advice. Beautiful arrangements. Very handy glossary of plants, lots of great info. My only wish is that the pictured arrangements were labeled with what plants were in them. So as to make them easier to recreate. Will most likely do nearly all of the projects featured. Loved the book.

[Julia]

Yes I'm counting this succulent non fiction book for my reading challenge, getting desperate here