Customer Reviews

Cactus and Succulents

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VERY GOOD BEGINNNERS BOOK FROM "THE OLE DAYS". BASICS THAT COVER HANDLING, PLANTING, RAISING, AND GENERAL BASICS OF CACTUS. WORTH HAVING BUT NOT THE DEFINITIVE BOOK OUT THERE.

This book taught me so much in the years when I first started growing cactus and succulents. Very informative and easy to understand.

You can count on Sunset for good coverage of a topic. This book has the following chapters:
*An Introduction to Succulents and Cactus
*Starting a Collection
*Caring for Cactus and Succulents
*Indoors...A Variety of Uses
*Landscaping Ideas
*Propagating Techniques
*Troubleshooting Plant Problems
*Specialties
Ample photos (black and white) supplement the text, and simple line drawings show the steps for "How to pot a cactus" and "How to graft a cactus."

Although the book is a bit dated and there aren't enough color photos for my taste--it did have good and useful information--

This is a list of varieties of cacti and succulents with very little information on each one -- a short paragraph. There is very little information on propagating, planting, etc., Not a book to start with.