Aimed at a new generation of indoor gardening enthusiasts, this book is a perfect guide for anyone keen to see their plant offspring thrive. This beautiful little book is ideal for the novice 'plant parent', providing tips on how to choose plants, where to place them, and above all how to care for them and keep them thriving. Indoor-plant experts and Instagrammers Erin Harding and Morgan Doane bring the subject to life alongside their beautiful photographs of happy plants in the home.
Founded in 1929, The Cactus and Succulent Society of America is an international community dedicated to advancing the appreciation,knowledge, research,and conservation of cacti and succulents.
[PDF] The Little Book of Cacti and Other Succulents
Our flagship publication, Cactus and Succulent Journal, has been the leading publication of its kind since 1929. It features popular and scientific articles about cacti and other succulent plants, including caudiciform and pachycaul succulents and xerophytes. Each full color, quarterly volume features horticultural instruction, new plants, research and conservation reports, travelogues, biographical and historical material and book-reviews. Numerous photographs of plants in habitat or in cultivation and fine botanical paintings, often commissioned for the cover, enrich the text. Lively travelogues give a sense of discovery, while (friendly) instructions on cultivation, propagation and pest control encourage a safe immersion in the world of succulents. CSJ is essential reading for all hobbyists and students of cacti and succulents, botanists, alpha-taxonomists, ecologists, conservationists, professional growers, and florists on the edge. If you are interested in submitting an article for either the CSJ or Haseltonia here is the submission Style Sheet
The technical yearbook of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America, Haseltonia, is published in full color and features peer-reviewed articles about all aspects of cacti, succulents and their environs. Some recent topics include current research and conservation reports, new species descriptions and lengthy taxonomic revisions, historical and biographical notes, chemical and cytological studies, evolutionary biology and ethnobotanical reports, propagation and pest control methods, and pollinator studies.
Choose the right plant from 200 varieties of cacti and succulents, and learn how to grow and show them off with help from this comprehensive guide.How can you encourage your bunny ear cactus to flower and flourish? What is the best method for propagating an Echeveria or Kalanchoe? What exactly are living stones, and where do they grow in the wild?Practical Cactus and Succulent Book is the ultimate reference book for cactus and succulent enthusiasts. An extensive illustrated plant directory profiles more than 200 succulent and cactus varieties, with instructions on how to grow each one, while information dashboards offer fascinating facts and quirky stats about different plant families, such as Euphorbia and Echinopsis. Show off your plants with inspirational display ideas and step-by-step projects. Follow the simple propagation instructions to increase your cacti and succulent collection without spending money. Keep your plants healthy with advice and tips for care and cultivation.Practical Cactus and Succulent Book is everything a cactus lover needs.
Pruning is an important part of any landscape maintenance program, including Southwestern desert landscapes. Pruning plants such as cacti, yuccas, agaves and other succulents is simple, but requires some basic plant knowledge. As with other plants in the landscape, poor and incorrect pruning will often lead to more serious problems, including premature death of the plants.
As with all plants, the amount of pruning required is often dictated by the placement and function of the plant. For a variety of reasons, the requirement to prune cacti and succulents may be greatly reduced by good site planning. When selecting a plant, consider the following:
When pruning, the natural form of any plant should be maintained, and topping or hedging does just the opposite. Most desert plants such as cacti and succulents have some type of armament to protect them in their native habitat. This can be both a benefit and a hazard in the urban landscape. The armament may deter animals and people from entering areas where they are planted, but this armament may also be a hazard if planted too close to sidewalks, driveways, parking areas or entrances to buildings.
The plants discussed in this publication and other similar desert plants that grow in the desert Southwest require minimal pruning. The main reasons to prune cacti and succulents are to remove dead or dying leaves, to remove armament that may cause damage to people and pets, to remove old flowering structures, and to remove diseased and damaged parts of the plant. When in doubt, keep pruning to a minimum and check with your local Cooperative Extension office for further information.
Succulent plants, also known as succulents or fat plants are water-retaining plants adapted to xerophilic climatic or soil conditions. Succulent plants store water in their leaves, stems and/or roots. The storage of water often gives succulent plants a more swollen or fleshy appearance than other plants, also known as succulence. In addition to succulence, succulent plants variously have other water-saving features.
Commonly known as jade plant or friendship tree, Crassula ovata is a succulent plant that sometimes has small pink or white flowers. Jade Plants are evergreen succulents native to South Africa where the environmental conditions are dry with little rainfall.
Jade plants are popularly used as houseplants around the world. They are propagated by stem or leaf cuttings. As succulents, they require a normal watering when the soil is dry in the summer, and very little watering in the winter. Overwatering will cause them to lose their leaves and eventually the stem will rot away. They will grow in full sun to light shade. However, they do not tolerate extreme heat or overexposure to direct sun very well, showing damage ranging from scorched leaves to loss of foliage and rotting stems. Most of the common species will tolerate a limited degree of frost but overexposure to cold weather will kill them.
The only two pests that bother cacti are a type of scale insect of the family Coccoidea, and nematodes. Scale insects may be killed by squirting the plant with a mixture of rubbing alcohol and nicotine. If nematodes are detected, the roots of the cactus must be cut off with a sharp knife and the plant repotted in sterile soil until it grows new roots. The old soil should be sterilized and the removed roots should be burned.
That said, plants in habitat appear much different than those in cultivation. In habitat, the star-shaped rosettes are often flat against the ground and may be mostly buried beneath the soil with large taproots underneath. Extreme conditions keep these plants looking almost dead. In cultivation, on the other hand, admiring growers create ideal conditions for these plants and they are often grown into plump little mounds of green tubercles. 2ff7e9595c
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