Garden Succulents

Succulents and rockery plants have become very popular for their ease of cultivation, spectacular diversity of shapes and sizes, striking colours, and waterwise characteristics. This scientifically accurate guide is aimed at assisting gardeners and horticulturalists to identify commonly used species from all over the world.

This revised and expanded "Garden Succulents" includes:
• Descriptions of more than 400 well-known succulent plants and their close relatives.
• Details about the main succulent plant groups that will allow any reader to quickly determine at a glance to which family a succulent belongs.
• More than 600 excellent full-colour photographs, showing the distinctive shapes, sizes, and colour of the plants.
• Introductory chapters on waterwise gardening, uses, conservation, cultivation and propagation of succulents, together with a section on gardening with succulents, which gives useful hints.
• The main section deals with all major succulent plant assemblages, how they can be identified and which main groups (genera and species) belong to each of them.