Succulent Excellence

Succulents demonstrate the ability to adapt and survive in the harshest of environments. They are well known for growing in dry inhospitable locations such as desert areas.  As shown in the range of families in this plant group there is an astonishing variety of size, shape, form  and colour to be found.

‘Succulents for the Contemporary Garden’ is focused on the use of succulents in the garden rather than indoor cultivation. It ignores spiky cacti but covers many varieties of herbaceous Euphorbias.

The book contains many excellent photographs of old favorites along with a range of less-common plants with their striking forms and unusual colors.

Mesembryanthemum, Lithops and Conophytum are depicted but, according to succulent grower Terry Smale, it is an error to have ignored shrubby genera such as Ruschia.

Some Succulent Families

• Agavaceae
• Aponcynaceae
• Asclepiadaceae
• Bromeliaceae
• Crassulaceae
• Euphorbiaceae
• Liliaceae
• Mesembryanthemaceae
• Purtulacaceae
• Plus some from families Sumacs, Aster, Begonia, Morning glory, Gourds, Cycadales, Orchids, Peperomiaceae even vines.