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Succulent Garden Design Ideas

For Your Patio, Poolside and Other Outdoor Spaces

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If you live in an arid or warm-weather climate, chances are good that you can use your swimming pool, spa, patio or deck nearly year 'round. Along with the advantages of enjoying your outdoor living space all year comes the additional challenge of selecting the right plants for landscaping. You don't want to be swapping-out plants every few months.

Then there are those microclimates that exist in different portions of your yard: poolside, on the patio, terraced gardens and spots that get several hours of shade or sun every day.

Succulent plants have gained in popularity during the past decade, and as we learn more about them and see them beautifully woven into landscape design, they aren't just a cousin to the prickly cactus. With careful planning and research, you can have an entire succulent garden without a thorn in sight, which is a good thing for pool and patio gardens, where people gather and the ouch factor is always possible.

Ready to see succulents like never before?

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  1. Succulent Roof on Shedshed with succulent roof
  2. Moroccan Beautyeuphorbia resinifera succulent at san diego botanical gardens
  3. Sea-Bottom Bouquet
  4. Native Grasses & Succulentssucculent display with native grasses
  5. Succulent Garden Wallsucculent wall
  6. Succulent Knollsucculents
  7. Octopus Gardensucculent undersea garden san diego botanic garden
  8. Yellow-Striped Succulentsucculent agave americana
  9. Lush Landscapingsucculent landscape design portulacaria
  10. Aeonium Arboreum 'Zwartkop' and Sticks on Firesticks on fire and zwartkop succulents
  11. Succulent Color Bowlsucculent bowl
  12. Succulent Shedgreen roof succulent roof
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