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Sunwriter7@cox.net Ten tips for enhancing your garden with succulents | |
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Order Debra's book, Designing with Succulents, now from Amazon.com.
Links The Mulch, a resource website for Southern CA gardeners, includes a Q&A with Debra: http://themulch.com/. Sisters Garden Room (online shop for tools and products): www.sistersgardenroom.com More info about succulent plants: Cactus and Succulent Society of America, www.cssainc.org. The Cactus Mall (a compendium of succulent nurseries and information sources), www.cactus-mall.com
Nurseries and mail-order sources: (Owners of succulent speciality nurseries with websites who would like to be listed below are welcome to contact Debra.) California Cactus Center, Pasadena, CA; www.cactuscenter.com. Daniel's Specialty Nursery, Lakeside, CA; www.danielscactus.hypermart.net Daylily Hill, 32183 Old Highway 395, Escondido; 714/378-5360; www.daylilyhill.com. Carl Dykema's Exotic Gardens, San Diego, CA; www.exoticgardens.biz Desert Theater, 800 Sunset Drive, Vista; also, 9655 Kiwi Meadow Lane, Escondido, 760/594-2330 (by appointment only) Jeff Moore's Solana Succulents, Solana Beach, CA; www.solanasucculents.com Margee Rader's succulent wreaths and topiaries, Bonsall, CA; www.livingwreath.com Plants by Season, Bonsall, CA; www.plantsbyseason.com. Rancho Soledad Nursery, Rancho Santa Fe, CA; www.ranchosoledad.com. The Plant Man, 2615 Congress St., Old Town; 619/297-0077 Tropic World, 26437 North Centre City Parkway, Escondido; 760/746-6108 Yucca Do Nursery, Hempstead, TX; www.yuccado.com. Public gardens that showcase succulents: The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ; www.desertmuseum.org. Denver Botanic Gardens, CO; www.denverbotanicgardens.org Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ; www.dbg.org Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA; www.huntington.org. The Living Desert, Palm Desert, CA; www.livingdesert.org Lotusland, Santa Barbara, CA; www.lotusland.org Quail Botanical Gardens, Encinitas CA; www.qbgardens.org Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA; www.rsabg.org The Ruth Bancroft Gardens, Walnut Creek, CA; www.ruthbancroftgarden.org Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, CA; www.sbbg.org Sherman Library and Gardens, Corona Del Mar, CA; www.slgardens.org Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, AZ; www.tucsonbotanical.org Water Conservation Garden, El Cajon, CA 92019; 619/660-1684; www.thegarden.org Photo
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2.
Use succulents as living sculptures. Position large, dramatic
aloes, agaves, euphorbias and cacti prominently in your garden, as focal
points and conversation pieces. The spiral cactus shown here is
Cereus repandus.
5.
Install succulents instead of a front lawn. Combine multiples of
Aloe striata and clumping blue fescue for an eye-catching front
yard that is low-maintenance, low-water and lush.
8.
Display succulents against a colored backdrop. Because of its
bold silhouette and gray-blue leaves, Agave 
9.
Grow succulents pool-side. Most succulents hang on to their
leaves for years, so are ideal for areas where you don't want a lot of
leaf litter.