Download e-book for iPad: Succulent Paradise: Twelve Great Gardens of the World by Gideon F. Smith, Estrela Figueiredo

By Gideon F. Smith, Estrela Figueiredo

ISBN-10: 1432302825

ISBN-13: 9781432302825

So much botanical gardens contain succulents of their collections; few are committed completely to them. In Succulent Paradise, the reader is taken on a verbal and visible travel of twelve remarkable succulent gardens. See how a handful of landscaping and horticultural visionaries have juxtaposed indigenous and unique vegetation with a mix of common and created landscaping components. adventure the influence and elegance of gardens in destinations as diversified as steeply terraced Mediterranean cliffs, dusty Karoo plains, Mexico City's city, California's canyons, and the pink wilderness of Arizona. The authors have visited gardens world wide devoted to the demonstrate, cultivation and propagation of succulent crops. In Succulent Paradise, they've got expressed their love of those tenacious, but strangely glamorous, vegetation in addition to appreciation for these whose imaginative and prescient and endurance has variously created abundance, promoted conservation, and left a legacy for destiny generations.

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Mention will – no, must – also be made of the fields of fragrant lavender in shades of purple and deep blue, the vineyards, olive trees and the remaining patches of summer-desiccated, dense, evergreen hybrid between Denmoza rhodacantha and Cleistocactus icosagonus has striking, bright red, curved flowers that carry pink pollen on stamens barely exserted beyond the tips. Bird pollination of cacti is not common, but the flowers of this hybrid are perfectly adapted to accommodate the beaks of feathered visitors.

Pubescens (sometimes referred to as Statice pubescens), grows on the cliffs below Eze. This form has pinkish blue flowers, and tough leathery leaves that are well adapted to salty sea spray. could visualise the design and effectively ‘see’ the end product. PLANT BORDERS AND BEDS A border is a bed that abuts a path, lawn, courtyard, conservatory or greenhouse – in fact, any structure in a garden, even a house. In the connectivity age of instant global communication, indulging in thoughtfully designing a garden bed, large or small, is acquiring significant cachet, especially for the green-minded gardener.

ATTRACTIONS: Over 7000 cacti, succulents and other plants on display; plant sales. FACILITIES: None in the Garden. ACCESSIBILITY: Some paths are narrow and paved with stone chips. indd 59 2013/04/12 1:08 PM SOIL IMPROVEMENT Never, never, never neglect the soil; even if succulents are only established in small pockets created among rocks. Add compost whenever possible. PREVIOUS PAGES With the spiky leaves of Agave salmiana var. salmiana stretching skyward in the foreground, the view stretches out over the Mediterranean Sea.

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