Succulent Books and Bouquet Giveaway

Prizes #1 and #4 look amazing!! There is nothing better than originals!!

While the other prizes look great, I am very far away in Pennsylvania so couldn’t take advantage of them.

What a nice giveaway. Thank you.

I would love to have the watercolor and of course the book! Or a bouquet of a dozen succulent rosettes. They have a category at the Denver County Fair for succulent arrangements and I would love to have the book to try some of the projects and maybe enter! My vegetable garden is a work of art, but winning a blue ribbon for my kohlrabi just wouldn’t be as good as winning for a succulent design! I need help! Not to mention succulents to get me started!

The watercolor and bouquet are both lovely.

Love the notecards!

I would love to win Prize #4 which is seven succulent greeting cards from your online store plus a signed and personalized copy of Succulents Simplified. If the cards are anything like the print and the mug they must be absolutely stunning! Thanks for the opportunity. I really enjoy your blog!

Oh my! What a wonderful prize list!
1) That is a beautiful watercolour. It would look fantastic in my new (old) cottage.
2) I wish I was going to be in California to have a personal lesson with you. That would be a wonderful experience.
3) Another one that I wish I could win. But I’m pretty sure you aren’t going to ship that bouquet to Ontario for me.
4) My family would be thrilled to receive these greeting cards instead of some of the stock ones in my basement from school fundraisers.
5) Again, a beautiful watercolour, this time on a mug. And with all of them that fabulous book.

6) Those online succulent pictures are a prize all by themselves.

Thanks
Lisa

WOW….Have been looking forward to the release of your newest book. I pinned the image of your artful book cover to my Great plants and planters board 5 days ago. Just winning the signed copy of the book would be terrific….very generous. If I had to pick one of the prizes I would pick the original watercolor.

Since I’m not near San Diego so can’t attend a workshop (and I’m not sure the bouquet would ship well), I’d love the mug and the book. How cute is that mug. I’ve also pinned your book on my pinterest page and liked your site on facebook.

Hi Debra,

All of the prizes are really beautiful.

If I had to choose between them, in order, it would be your cool coffee mug, and your new book.

Then, the succulent bouquet, for a wedding we are having in our garden in July, that the bride could carry.

A private session on succulent arrangement with you would be really nice, too!

I have posted a photo of your new book’s cover on my Facebook page.

Thanks, Debra.

Chip Milligan
Master Gardener

Since I don’t live near San Diego and yet I love, love, love succulents–it may surprise you to know what I most want is the cards, your book, and access to the online idea library. Why: I mat and frame beautiful cards and put them in rotating seasonal displays. I stage them wih decorating accessories (including plants and flowers) which highlight or reinforce their color themes, and hang them or put them in places where you are both surprised to see them and you can linger and enjoy them. The color pallettes are both cool and ethereal, w has a lifting impact on people’s moods.

The book–because books open new doors and windows–often in areas you would not be able to anticipate.

Access to the online library–I live in Zone 4–8000 feet in the Rockies. I have a solarium which has many succulents. I try to replicate ecosystems inside my solarium, and I would love to see you many creations.

I have Debra’s two other books and love them both and refer to them often and recommend them to friends. Our garden is going to be on our city’s garden tour the first Sunday in June, thanks to her inspiration. So I must have her new book as well! It sounds delightful. The watercolor she shows is fabulous! So beautiful! I’ve dabbled in watercolor and know how difficult the medium is. I’m terrible with containers and would greatly benefit from her class, and it’s been a while since we’ve driven down to San Diego, a favorite destination. Debra’s bouquet looks and sounds intriguing. I’ve not tried one yet. I must. I’d hope that having her greeting cards would inspire me to be a better correspondent! My husband would delight in the mug. He collects mugs and loves succulents and cacti. I’m an amateur photographer and spend hours each week taking and processing digital photos and enjoying fine photography on the Internet. Having access to Debra’s online photos would be fabulous and surely would inspire me to do more with my ever-growing excess of succulents! Definitely, I’m going to share Debra’s good work on Facebook and my budding blog. Love your idea of doing this contest! Thanks for considering my entry.

I would love to win the private container workshop for my small group of volunteers who make succulent dish gardens for Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside. We sell the planters at the Mission’s Welcome Center, and all proceeds go to the Mission for restoration and maintenance efforts. All of us are amateurs, and over time our dish gardens have improved, but a workshop with Debra Baldwin would be just what our group needs to lift our creations from average to outstanding.
Also, my copy of “Succulents Simplified” arrived from Amazon with a torn cover, and I need another copy of the book.

By the way, I pinned the cover of the new book. I love browsing through Succulent Container Gardens and learning about succulents.

Congratulations on your accomplishment. Your book on succulents has me drooling. I love your arrangements and gorgeous photographs and I would be happy with any of the gifts. The book is especially nice, providing many hours of pleasure and ideas, but I would also be most grateful for the gorgeous painting, a mug, or the cards and rosettes, as well. Thanking you in advance.

I’d love the lesson but since I’m out of the area I’d love the book or watercolor. Absolutely gorgeous!

I have a lot of different succulents but
Don’t know how to plant Orr range them.
I live in Santa Barbara and the climate is similar to Escondidos
So your oak would help me put them together.

I would love the original watercolor with the book. Its beautiful and would look amazing in my kitchen. The postcards are beautiful too and I’ve been trying to send mail to friends more often so that would be great as well. Most of all I would love the book. I am not great with plants, I seem to kill them all, so I am hoping that succulents give me a little more love 🙂

What an awesome site you have! I was sent over from the site Succulents and Sunshine
🙂 The prizes I am interested in winning are 1, 3, 4, and 5. Keep up the awesome work!!!!!

Deborah, your books are fabulous!! They are very inspiring!! I would love the 2 hour workshop!
I would take my dear friend Roxanne who recently lost her mother to cancer. She is getting married in July and her mother left a large collection of succulents
that she was planning on using for
centerpieces. That would be awesome!

Of course I would like the first prize! Who wouldn’t want an original painting AND the book! Plus I live 2000 miles away from CA, and would not be able to utilize the workshop. The other prizes are great too….

I would love to win the coffee mug! It is great and fits me perfectly! I think the event in Escondido looks great and will try and come out on Saturday!
Thanks so much, I’m really enjoying your site.

Would love the rosettes! One of my favorite things about succulents is that you can cut and grow so easily! I bought your Succulent Contain Gardens and read it cover to cover the day it arrived. LOVE how informative it is, with such beautiful pictures. What I love most is that I finally call myself a gardner with a green thumb! Succulents are practically fool proof and the perfect water wise plant for a southern california garden.

Hi! I was sent over from the Succulents & Sunshine blog! It would be wonderful to win the watercolor with your book, the pretty postcards with the book, the bouquet of rosettes with the book, or your fabulous design ideas with your book!! If I wasn’t in Denver, I’d be drooling over the class!!! Your blog is great and I sent it to a few friends who love succulents as well! Thanks!!

The two-hour workshop for me and a couple of my succulent-loving friends would be a dream come true, especially as I will be unable to attend the Succulent Celebration. I have
your books, but would love to learn from you in person. My containers never look quite like yours!

The watercolor is lovely, and I adore the mug. I would be ecstatic with any of these lovely prizes. Thank you for sharing.

LOVE your newest book on Succulents! THIS IS THE WAY TO GO! I love to combine them with grasses in many of my home staging projects for our new real estate listings ~
Congratulations!

I would love, love, love the lesson! I have heard you speak at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and I think that a session with two good friends and my sister, all of whom are passionate about succulents, would be so fun. I’m sure we would learn and accomplish so much! I have bought your container gardening book and just now liked your new book on Facebook. Thank you for all your educational efforts.

I enjoy and use your book “Designing with Succulents” so I am looking forward to your new book. All of your gifts are wonderful and I would be thrilled to receive any one. I would especially enjoy the opportunity for a personal class with you.

Hi Debra!
Oh I just can’t decide! I love all of them! I didn’t even know you did the 4 person class! That’s what I would like! And I’ll buy your book too! Assume I need to sign up for the class?

Debra:
I attended your talk at the Dos Valles Garden Club and bought one of your books. We have now started our succulent garden, planting a Palo Verde to provide the shade. We chose the Palo Verde tree based on the recommendation in your book. While I am waiting for the tree to grow, I will read your new book and plan and prepare for the succulent gardens underneath the Palo Verde trees.

I would love to have a succulent bouquet designed by you to give to my new to be daughter-in-law in time for the wedding . Our son and she will be marrying June 22nd. A succulent bouquet designed by you would be the highlight of the wedding.

Congratulations on your new book. I would love to win the bouquet of a dozen succulents (and your new book), that’s a great idea, I never thought of making a bouquet, I just plant my succulents in bowls and in the ground.

Of course I would love to have anything from Debra Lee Baldwin. Your lovely bouquet is awesome (who know it may convince my son and his fiancee to go with succulents when then I bring home a bouquet from you). You are my hero you must know and I am learning so much from you. Although I made mention of your book many times with my groups and and the world, I just posted another comment on my timeline with your link of the Succulent Simplified. Thanks for being a friend. Love all your creativity. You are a true artist. Someday when I grow up maybe I can be like you. 🙂

Thanks for the opportunity Debra. Truly any of the give-aways would be great because what I am most interested in is your book! If I had to choose though it would be the bouquet or the painting.

Dear Debra,
First of all, THANK YOU, for sharing your wisdom and passion for succulents! I have enjoyed your books, blog, facebook page, and videos immensely. You have inspired me and taught me SO much. Thanks to you, I don’t hate living in the desert anymore!
I would love the bouquet, because you can never have enough plants, AND I have gotten several friends hooked on succulents now, with whom I would love to share those plants.
Can’t WAIT for your new book, it’s still on my wish-list, as I have a birthday coming up later this year 🙂
Again, thank you for all you do for us fellow plant lovers!

Debra,
The new book looks “yummy”! I have ALL your previous books, one which you signed at your event near the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. I also have two of your succulent mugs from http://www.zazzle.com/debraleebaldwin

Were I to be selected as a HAPPY WINNER, I’d hope for Free Gifts #1, 4 or 9.

I live n Northern California and am a member of the Peninsula Succulent Club as well as the larger San Francisco Succulent & Cactus Society – where we are fortunate to have Brian Kemble as our President! http://www.sfsucculent.org/

Cid Young

I would love to win *any* of these prizes. Although I’m in Northern CA, a weekend trip to So Cal is always tempting, so I’d be happy to make the trip with my mom. I love the bouquets too, and a dozen cuttings to add to my garden would definitely be a fun prize to win! Thanks for the chance to win *any* of the prizes, and congratulations on your new book, which is on my list to read even if I don’t win a copy.

Thank you Debra for all that you bring to our industry and the love of succulents is far from a fad. It is catching on like wildfire. Your personal appearances and your books are a great treasure. I am so looking forward to the Succulent Celebration and getting my hands on your new book. Hooray!
I would love and would use your greeting notecards. Not too many people actually sit down and hand write cards any more, but I still do! I love to send my clients thank you notes after a design project and these would be perfect.
Hope to see you really soon.
Marilyn

Wow, I am so excited about the new book. I ordered it online weeks ago and can’t wait to get it. I think my first choice would be lesson. I am right in the middle of my learning curve as a budding succulent fanatic. I am redoing my whole yard, now in the soil amendment phase. I could use the education! Second, I would love the watercolor. The colors are beautiful! The bouquet would be great too. I have spots in my yard for them. I never seem to win anything, so I will remain cautiously optimistic (and keep my fingers crossed!)

Hi Debra, I just removed all of the lawn on my property and have replaced it with succulents and ornamental grasses as well as a few native, drought tolerant plants and trees. I would love to win the bouquet of succulents. I could enjoy its beauty and then deconstruct it and place the little ones in my new garden and watch them grow, and because I love bringing a gift from my garden when visiting friends your book would be perfect to help me choose the best succulents for creating special gifts. Finally the beautiful watercolor would be a perfect compliment to my home. I would put it near my front door so it ties my home and garden together.

Dear Debra,

Congratulations on you new website, Gardening Gone Wild. I love everything you are doing with succulents and your ability to really get it out there.

I love the mug that you have designed. And look forward to owning your new Book when I attend the upcoming Succulent Celebration. Succulents are here to stay!

Thanks for everything succulent,

Carol

I love Debra Lee Baldwin’s work! I have all your books, and I would love to win the new book! I have share this link on my facebook page. I would be happy to win any of the selections!

Hi Debra,
Congratulations on your book! I would love the opportunity to meet with you at the workshop to pick up hints and get started on transforming my garden with succulents. I would enjoy the mug and the bouquet, and would certainly appreciate access to the online photos. I’m looking forward to the Succulent Celebration on June 8th.

Good morning Debra, super to meet you at long last in San Diego. I am trying to be at the Succulent Celebration on the Saturday, Friday i will be in the Pacific Northwest. First off, my warmest conflagrations on the new book. I firmly believe that plants people still think in pictures and love to have a book in hand ………… I know I do. At the nursery we have been keen followers of your work, with the amount of plants we grow it is of the up most importance to try and stay close to the folks that are leaders in their field of which you are. So thank you for everything you do for so many of us. You make a positive difference …… really. I am not going to pass on the offer of books, pictures, coffee cups, anything from your treasure chest of collectibles would be the icing on the cake for me. Hoping to catch up with you soon. Warmest regards, Nicholas.

Dear Debra,
Congratulations on yet another accomplishment for you!!!
You have inspired me to redo my front yard from grass to succulents and I am confident I would receive NUMEROUS
Ideas on how to convert my three tiered fountain to a gorgeous
Succulent focal point for my backyard from your class and especially your book. Best wishes and keep up the amazing
Creative ideas with succulents!

Hi, Debra!
Congratulations on the publication of your new book, which I received from Amazon last week. I work with succulents at Quail Gardens (SDBG), and I would like the bouquet of succulents so that when it’s time to retire the bouquet, I will be able to plant the succulents and enjoy them for many years. I will see you on June 7 at Waterwise Botanicals.

Debra…you are so amazing, I’m so happy to have found you! Succulents are my passion…I make them as gifts for people, and have them all over my yard. I’d love the mug and a copy of your book….I will just buy it otherwise! 🙂 Thank you for doing what you do and for sharing it with all of us! Happy Memorial Day…Amy K. in Vista, CA.

I love all of your photos and have enjoyed attending your presentations in the Bay Area. I feel like I’ve learned so much from you through your presentations, vibrant photos, books and online.

I’d love to receive any of the lovely gifts you are offering.

Best Wishes, Michele

I have heard you speak at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show and have all your books (except the new one). Love your e-mails, have learned S) much from you!
It would be fantastic to win your book and painting or note cards.
Thanks for the chance to win such a great prize. Hope I’m lucky!
Sara B.

Thank you for the opportunity to win one of these great prizes. Winning the private 2-hour workshop would be absolutely wonderful. I saw one of your workshops at a Del Mar Home and Garden Show, and I was blown away!

Congratulations on the new book. I look forward to your seminar at the Succulent Celebration.

Best regards,
Mary

Can’t wait to see you on the 7th at Waterwise! Doing my new back yard with Succulents and using many of your ideas. I’d love to win the bouquet of a dozen succulent rosettes and a personalized copy of Succulents Simplified.
Best wishes four your continuing success!

Jan Brider

I’m SO grateful for your offer so when I see a good thing, I like to share it. I’ve sent out a message to my 1,500 Facebook friends, Tweeted, pinned on Pinterest, and have invited 4 people to your June workshop–which I’m so excited about attending. I’ve already bought “Designing with Succulents” and read through it every day. Yesterday I was running around local nurseries with it showing pictures to customers and nursery owners alike. (I feel like Paul Revere!) We’re converting our 5 acres into water-wise plants, down to every container! This will be my first real hobby as my doctor has recommended stress-free gardening to regain my wellness. I would be eternally grateful to have two hours with you for the container session so that I can get off to the right start. Friends have given me cuttings and I’m managing to mangle them already. This is 911 calling! We face a big project and I’d love your formidable expertise to get off on the right foot.
Looking forward to meeting you!
Lorna Riley

I love the way you portray my very favorite plant form–Succulents. I have both of your other

books and would love to win any prize that includes the new one. I can’t wait to see it! I

purchased your second book at one of your presentations which I enjoyed so very much,

but now that i’m 91 years old I stay pretty close to my home here in Alpine. Keep writing

your beautiful books!!!!!!!

Hello and thanks for the opportunity to win such fabulous stuff! I found out about the giveaway through Succulents and Sunshine. If I win, I’d love any of the prizes, but my favorite would be the bouquet (#3), followed by the greeting cards (#4) and the mug (#5). Of course my absolute tops would be the private workshop, but I live in New Jersey, so that won’t work (sad face). Have a wonderful Memorial Day Holiday!

I will be at the event on the 7th and 8th. Prizes number one or four would be so nice! I’d like any of them really because the main one I’d like is your book. I’ve learned so much from tutorials on YouTube I could only imagine what your book could do for me! Thanks Debra and maybe I will see you in Escondido!!

I’m Greenhouse/Propagation Chair with the Dos Valles Garden Club in Valley Center (can you say LOCAL!) where we have 2 of your books in our library and would love to add your new one.

I would choose the workshop and bring some of my fellow garden clubbers. We already make succulent dish gardens for our Plant Sales and would enjoy learning how to do it even BETTER from YOU.

My other choice would be the beautiful mug. I have a mug collection we use at our workshops (after I weaned us off foam cups) and it would be SUCH a beautiful AND meaningful addition.

I would LOVE the rosettes bouquet! I am building my succulent garden and these would be a wonderful addition. I am getting pretty OCD about my succulents and have noticed the random sprinklings of dirt on the leaves caused by animal friends. It brings me total joy to tend to them. Looking forward to reading the new book!

Two years ago I saw you speak on succulents here in southern Orange County. Loved the presentation and what a wonderful library of pics. Thank you for all the info and your book. All the prizes are great. Any one of them would make me very happy since you’re a wonderful artist and I love succulents.

Hoping to make it down for the Succulent Celebration. Really looking forward to your new book. Thanks again. Nancy

Having recenlty planted my first succulent container garden last weekend, the container workshop would be very useful in helping me plan my many future succulent container gardens!

The coffee cup would be a welcome prize as my office cup is cracking. Hands down, the Succulents Simplified book is the best prize on the list! I’m sure it will do very well given your expertise and talent with succulents!

All the best,
Renee

I literally gasped when I saw your agave watercolor, so it’s safe to say I would be honored to win and display it as part of my collection of art by local artists, I wish it were possible to attach a photo of my library so you could see for yourself how completely happy your agave would be living next to my larger painting of beavertail cactus done by Rosarito Beach artist Judith Esparza in an interestingly similar, yet not identical, style. I spend more hours in that room than anywhere else and can tell you without reservation that my spirits could not help but be high if your stunning watercolor were in my life on a daily basis. The vibrant colors, scale, proportions, and subject matter all resonate with me.

Your bouquet of a dozen succulent rosettes is another treasure I would love to win. Why? Because I’m mad for succulents and subscribe to the theory that, sometimes, too much just isn’t enough. Maybe all the time, if I were to be brutally honest. I’m itching to enjoy the bouquet and then separate it into a dozen plants to enjoy for years to come. It’s like the prize that keeps on giving! Plus, I have a dozen really cool containers just waiting to be planted, and your rosettes would be just right.

Not to sound greedy, but … well, I *am* greedy when it comes to winning a copy of “Succulents Simplified” along with the other prizes. I already have a copy but would love a signed one to give to my daughter, who lives amongst her succulent collection in Northern California. (She has your other two books, and they are well-worn.)

Whether I’m a lucky winner or not, I will see you at Waterwise on June 7 – 8. Thank you for running this contest and giving all of us fans a little thrill at the prospect of winning!

Would love to add your watercolor to my patio to compliment my cactus & succulent plantings. The colors are soothing gives you warm feel ….

Really would like a signed copy of your latest book! So, if I must choose which giveaway gift I’d like the most it would be #1 or 2 or 3…….4, 5 or 6 would be very nice also!
I’ve learned so much from you books and video’s. I appreciate the way you share information about succulents. It’s great fun checking out nurseries you’ve recommend and trying the different ways to use these great plants. Continued success.
D

I have attended one of your workshops in Southern California and made a succulent dish, which I really love, and its doing beautifully. I have made many more for others to enjoy too. I am signed up for the upcoming classes and can’t wait. I would love the painting, or the succulent rosettes. Thank you and look forward to the upcoming workshops in Escondido.

Laura

Hi there!
Congratulations on your new book! I work at a library, and I just loved your 2 previous books. Every time I flipped a page, I couldn’t help but let out a, “Oh, that’s gorgeous.” lol. You better believe, we’re going to get your 3rd book for our collection! Although I would absolutely enjoy attending your workshop, I unfortunately, would be unable to travel to California to attend. I live in south Texas. 🙁 But, I would equally enjoy having a bouquet or any artwork made by Debra Lee Baldwin! I just discovered the wonderful world of succulents a few months ago. I have fallen in love! Finally, I can have a beautiful garden despite my “black thumb.” Looking at my little succulent garden everyday makes me HAPPY! Thank you so much for your books and your youtube videos! Also, thank you to Candice Suter of Sweetstuff’s Sassy Succulents for letting me know about this giveaway!

I was sent on over here by Sweetstuffs Sassy Succulents. I am a HUGE succulent lover! And can not wait to get your new book! Any of the giveaways I would be MORE than happy with and appreciate. But I’d say firstly I’d LOVE the watercolor print( it would look BEAUTIFUL in my livingroom), next the succulent bouquet would be thoroughly enjoyed and then replanted, or the greeting cards would probably be framed rather than sent :), OR I could come on down to SD for a vacation and bring a few succulent loving friends along and we would have a BLAST!!! or the beautiful mug to enjoy my tea in whilst sitting in my garden…Thank you for the amazing giveaway!

Oh I also shared on Pinterest AND Facebook!!!

I love succulents & would love to win the book,notecards or mugs. Thank you so much for this giveaway.

I think succulents are nature’s most amazing artistry and you certainly help her along with your creativity and skill. I would love to have the mug and the signed personalized book, as well as the link to the online photo library. If I were closer I would also love the workshop with you or the bouquet.

i just submitted a request for the mug and the personalized signed book and forgot to mention I linked the book on my facebook page. oops.

Wow! What a great giveaway!!! Prizes 1,4,5,6 only due to the fact I live in Texas and can’t enjoy 2 or 3. I have always enjoyed your style and ideas and would love any of the prizes!!!!

I would love to have the Agave original watercolor painted by you.
congratulations on the new book and thank you for including us in it.

sent over here by: http://www.sweetstuffssassysucculents.com

I would like 1, 3,4,5 (California’s a bit too far away, I’m afraid!)

love all the work you do

Debra —
I would any of your prizes– all are terrific, however if I could pick just one the one-on-one with you would be fabulous.
Why should you choose me:First, I am an instructor in landscape architecture, architecture and urban planning at 4 schools in southern California. I teach students about design. I find succulents and cacti are the most wonderful and frustrating medium for design.
Second, I believe that anyone with a six figure income can change their lawn to a drought tolerant beautiful yard , but what about someone that doesn’t have that income. What do blue-collar people do to change their yards. If I could learn more about how to use succulents and cacti, as well as adapted plants for Southern California I think I could help people make those big changes in their home.
Third, we have a grand time and my friend are way fun.

Lastly, any of your prizes would be perfect.
Thank you for offering these prizes.

Lori

I can’t wait until your new book comes out! The last two were two of the best succulent resources I have EVER read! I have learned so much and have become empowered to improve my own garden and add even more to my existing knowledge of these fabulous plants. Thanks!

I found your website through Sunshine &Succulents. I have just started propagating succulents and am hooked! You all are inspiring me! If I win I would the succulents bouquet as I am trying to collect and propagate different kinds and colors. Thank you!

I’m not picky because I never win anything so it’s all a blessing if I win! But if I had to pick a prize, either #4 or #5 would be awesome!! Also I am a big fan of succulents and have a few in my home collection.
I am also sharing your book cover on my Facebook page to help spread the word! Jah-Bless!!

I would love to win gift #3….the bouquet of succulent rosettes and your new book! I attended your talk at the SF garden show and really got excited about trying some succulents in my garden. I can’t come to the San Diego area, but this gift would be great in San Jose, too. I will keep my fingers crossed that I win!

I love succulents. But I live I. Canada so I am limited to what I can keep in my garden over winter. I am trying various types of winter-hardy cacti but they are to find. Semper vivum are great and I have quite a few. I would to win your book Succulents Simplified as well as the water colour. And of course once I win I will really look forward to be able to access the online photos of Succulents in Containers.

Thank you for providing such a wonderful opportunity for all your fans! I have to confess I’ve been a fan of succulents for many years, but only just started learning how well they can be applied to creative and crafty endeavors!

In fact, it’s not just myself that enjoys succulents, my mom and I both really enjoy them, and are planning a crafty succulent get together to make some crafts based on your clever projects!

How wonderful would it be to have your new book to help us get it right the first time around? I would love to be able to hand over a lovely succulent bouquet to my mo as I arrive for our crafty succulent get together, and then share with her the lovely crafty ideas inside the book! But even though that would be nice, all of these prizes are wonderful!

Please consider my mom and I as recipients of one of your prizes! But above all, thanks so much for publishing such a wonderful collection of succulent books!

Also, I heard about this giveaway from Sweetstuff’s Sassy Succulents Blog.

I’d love a mug . . . because it’s so pretty! . . . and because Debra and Succulent Container Gardens are the whole entire reason I got hooked on succulents and cacti in the first place. I saw that book and I had to have it. Yes it’s all her fault (and how grateful I am).

Debra:

Congratulations on your new book. Can’t wait to get a copy (already have container gardens) a neighbor’s daughter was getting married and she mentioned that she was having succulent bouquet. I thought that was really interesting and was interested to see how they were made. So I guess I would have to say that my first choice would be your two hour class/along with the bouquet at second.

This is so hard. I love all of your books, watercolors are my favorite art medium, and I’m hooked on both succulents and morning coffee. Getting a mug with a copy of the new book would be be a real score.

I have your Designing with Succulents but I would love to have your new book.

Congratulations!!! I would LOVE a copy of your new book. Signed, of course. Bouqet of rosettes, watercolor, mugs, greeting cards. I have your download of the different succulents and I LOVE IT. Keep up the good work and keep sharing. You are incredible!
Sara

Hi Debra, very happy about your new book. Looking toward adding it to my colection. You changed our front of the house.We are so happy that is all succulents, but we have so much yet to learn.Love to have any of your prices.Mug would make me think of you and your talents. Good work Debra! Love, Jelena and Ivan

Expressing why I would enjoy winning any one of your prizes is the easy part! I would love the watercolor because I collect art, am amazed by the medium of watercolor, love vibrant colors, and am a fan of succulents. The private workshop would be a treat and I would choose as my guests my brother, who lives in San Diego, my nephew in San Francisco who in his business blog recently credited both me and the book I gave him by you, as his original inspiration to begin collecting and cultivating succulents, and a lovely lady in your area who was generous enough to adopt a rescue cat from me recently. The Rosette Bouquet could be enjoyed as an arrangement for quite some time, and then dissasembled and given new homes in the succulent garden that grows under my huge old oak tree. I still send lots of snail mail and the greeting cards would be frameable for recipients. Lastly, the mug would make my morning tea taste all that much better, I’m sure. Anyway, congratulations on the new book, and I look forward to adding it to my library. Your advise and guidance for planting under my oak tree made all the difference, and after five years of trying different gardens under that oak, I finally have something that is thriving. If I can only get my “pet” peacock to keep his snacking to a minimum…

Oh No, I have to choose only one! The succulent bouquet is amazing. I would probably choose that, because they are so beautiful!

You are an inspiration! Would love the 2 hour demo at oasis. Your books and blogs have me hooked!!

Love succulents. Would love to have the book. Prefer the watercolor or bouquet .Since I’m across the country the demos should go to other winners.

Wow! I’m crazy for succulents! The painting would look great in my Mexican Talavera inspired bathroom, I would love to take the 2-hr. demonstration on our vacation to San Diego this fall, and your book is a must-have if I am to continue to plant succulents in our hot, dry Texas landscape!!

I have used both of your original books and they are so helpful. I love the illustrations and practical advice. Everyone who comes to our home comments on our succulent collection and your books started it all. I would love the personalized workshop at Oasis!

I always enjoy your postings on FB. Some of them are so unique. I would love to win the workshop because I have so many types of succulents (which means lots of cuttings laying around) and I always need new ideas of how to use them. The Hidden Meadows garden club will be having their own workshop in October, where we will be planting antique/junkstore finds (such as old chairbottoms or anything that can have wire and moss added to it to support the plantings.) I also wouldn’t mind winning the painting. You have captured the unique essence of succulents in you painting. Thanks for all your enthusiasm. I am a big fan.

Debra, I so enjoy your books. I have planned to buy “Succulents Simplified” every since you mentioned its publication. I missed you in DesMoines (no matter how badly we wish to drive a 4+ hour trip in less than 3 hours… it still seems to take 4 hours 😉 !!)
I do hope you enjoyed your journey to the midwest!

If I was lucky enough to win your celebration give-away; I would hope to win your beautiful painting. Your wonderful art work is how I became interested in the succulents. I had no idea how much fun cactus could be until I found your paintings about the same time as we traveled to Tuscon AZ!! wow!!

My 2nd choice prize would be the photo library. I so enjoy your style (designs) of your projects. Now if only I could create a succulent landscape in the midwest that would survive cold, snow, and winter; this would be one less worry during a midwestern drought.

Thank-you for sharing the beauty of barbs and thorns, sincerely, maryo

Congrats on the new book, Debra! I’d LOVE to win your agave watercolor, but any of the prizes would be a treat with the exception of the 2 hr demo, only because I have no plans to be in San Diego anytime soon. I did indeed post a photo of your book cover on my FB page too. https://www.facebook.com/diggingblog/posts/555140614537425 Cheers, Pam

Have already received a copy of the book. I ordered from Amazon and it came immediately. I would be interested in the watercolor. I’ve been making cactus and succulent dish gardens for over a year. Your books have been very helpful and inspirational. Locally, St. Louis, MO, I’m a member of the Henry Shaw Cactus and Succulent Society as well as a member of the Cryptanthus Society. I’ve always been a houseplant enthusiast, but the cactus and succulents have completely taken over. I’ve installed grow lights in the basement and have two small green houses. Am working towards one big show this coming September to showcase and sell my dish gardens. I’ve enjoyed your new book especially since you use the more common names of the most familiar plants. Looking forward to the next one.

What a generous and fun person you are Debra! Thank you! I’ve been to your presentations at the Succulent Extravaganza the last two years and love your 2 books. I have read them cover to cover and study the beautiful pictures for inspiration for my growing succulent garden. My husband is a 100% disabled vet and we have just moved his elderly mother into our home. Along with taking care of our 2 young girls, my “escape” to my garden is a daily must to say the least. I have been anticipating your third book since you announced it. So more than anything I would love a copy of your new book for more inspiration, education and humor. The bouquet that I could enjoy and later add to my slowly, but ever growing succulent tapestry, would be a bonus!

thank you!

Julie

Debra,
Congratulations on your new book! I love all your FB posts.

I would love to win the succulent bouquet and your book. As to the online photos, I’m sure I’ll treasure looking through all those pictures…

If I could get a 2nd choice of a gift, I would ask for the succulent mug. This way I can be dreaming about succulents all day long… 🙂

I have shared your post about your new book and this giveaway in FB.

Thank you very much!
Susana

I love it all! But I think I would most like to have that lovely painting. I love your book by the way!

I would love the watercolor painting. Looking forward to the new book too!

I found this blog through Succulents and Sunshine.

Congrats on the book!

I would love to hang the watercolour on the wall of my workroom.I love the colours -it looks like jewels and really glow.

That way i can always appreciate the artwork and be inspired to try painting succulents.

Either that, or the mug with the pretty drawing on the side, something that I can put in front of me and look at while I draw or paint.

Or perhaps the rosettes with the book.. what better way to get inspiration then from admiring the actual plant or browsing the book?

Debra- your first two books have inspired me, and now my daughter as well, to explore the world of succulents. I would love a copy of your book, signed of course!, and the beautiful note cards. That way I can share the beauty with even more of my friends! I learned of this give away on FB and by email from this blog, your FB page, and Sweetstuff’s Sassy blog and FB page as well.

I preordered your book and it arrived this week….your pictures and choice of beautiful easy care succulents is amazing. I have always loved succulents, always growing Jade and aloe. My son is a gardener at The High Line in NYC and before that had an internship at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. He has opened up my appreciation by sharing his expertise with me. I have a nice collection of succulents and now have a tutorial on how to create beautiful container gardens with them. Living in the NE makes it more of a challenge. When I read about your new book, I jumped on the chance to preorder and I am delighted
to turn the pages and read and enjoy your descriptions and gorgeous pictures. I would be honored to receive prizes 1,3,4 or 5. Thank you for creating such a wonderful book.

Hi, what a unique and generous offer! I would love to receive the rosettes and a copy of the book. The notecards would be icing on the cake. I became an ardent “succulenteer” after attending the Succulent Gardens Extravaganza two years ago and attended Debra’s excellent session there. Learning about and growing succulents has become an exciting new avocation for me. I’ve interested several neighbors in our starting a neighborhood “succulents society.” I learned about this offer from Sweetstuff’s Sassy Succulents blog.

Hi Debra,

I like the seven succulent greeting cards and the mug. I wish I will win and have this wonderful giveaway. Thanks a lot! 😀

I would love to receive the watercolor with the book, or the photo library.

I have you other books and this sounds the perfect addition to a trilogy.

Love the artwork, but would be content with breaking my losing streak with a mug. I can drink my coffee displaying it’s art and thereby encourage my Santee succulents to form a livelong bond with those of Debra’s. Pretty sure they are already getting the vibes…

Congratulations and thank you! I’ve learned a lot from your videos and have yet to read any of your books. A signed copy of the book would be great. So would the painting, and a drive from LA to SD for a class, would be even better. I have plenty of planters and pots. I could even share with the whole class! I haven’t checked the books ratings yet. Very interesting and nice of you to share that also! Best of luck to you.
Joey

I can’t wait for this new book! I am a sucker for succulents, and refer to your previous books regularly. I have shared your UTube tutorials with my friends that garden with succulents too. Our local nursery is having a Memorial Day sale and I went a little crazy with the purchase of new plants. Designing succulent bowls will be my weekend pleasure. I would be thrilled and honored to win something in your contest. What I would really love is the private workshop…what a dream that would be. I would bring my friend, sister and sister-in-law, and we would make it a mini vacation. San Diego, here we come! Even if I don’t win anything, let me take this opportunity to THANK YOU, DEBRA LEE BALDWIN!! You are a great talent and inspiration…and I mean that sincerely.

Sweetstuff brought your site to my attention and I love your work! Your arrangements are beautiful…you are obviously not a serial plant killer as I was until I recently discovered the beauty of succulents. Having just begun working with these plants, I don’t have much of a variety and what I have is mostly ground cover sedums. I have some kind of crested cactus that my husband expected to be my next victim, but it has tripled its size and is responsible for my switch to succulents. I would love to have that bouquet of succulent roses so I can add some of those plants to my planters! Thanks so much for showing us how-to’s! Blessings to you!

What a beautiful book. I am just starting out with growing and enjoying succulents and am learning a lot about what to do and not do. I wish I lived closer to be able to come and take a lesson. I love your artwork and would like to have the original water colour or the illustrated mug. As the owner of a newly opened small art gallery I appreciate the talent shown in your beautiful work. I look forward to seeing more of your work over time.
Thank you
Karen

I love all the prizes but think I will choose number 3, the bouquet of wonderful succulents and the book! I have started collecting planter HEADS for my garden and have been looking for just the right succulents to put in them and this would be fantastic ! OH happy day. Thank you.

I would love, love, love the painting or the greeting cards, as they are exquisite. And they come with a signed book!!! I would also be delighted to drink my morning tea in the beautiful succulent mug! I am going to share on Twitter and Pinterest!

My front yard is now mostly succulents. I was inspired by you at a show in Del Mar. My water bill is much lower and I predict a water shortage will only make succulent yards more prevalent.

I would like to drink my morning tea from a Debra Lee cup while admiring the beautiful pictures of succulents in your new book.

Gratefully, Dee

Hi Debra,
What a generous giveaway! All the gifts are wanted. My request is for the graptopetalum watercolor mug. This would allow my Lilly dog and me to sit outside amoung the succulents while enjoying coffee, in a special mug, and enjoying your newest book.
Read about your giveaway thanks to Sweetstuff. Fingers and toes are crossed. I always have questions and want to learn more about succulents and their care. I know your book will guide me.

Thanks and Love your Kowledge of Succulents,

Kathy

Preferred prizes: the class at Oasis, the mug.
I’m on my way to Barnes & Noble right now to pick up your newest book succulents simplified I’ve already purchased two copies each of your other two books the second set I purchased from you at a presentation you were doing at the Fallbrook library and I had you autograph them to my daughter Michelle we both love gardening with succulents and your books are such a valuable resource can’t wait to get this newest one thank you for what you do to promote gardening with succulents.

Thanks for the chance to win your fabulous new book , I have your others which are a great source of inspiration & knowledge. I look forward to reading your new book. I will also see @ Waterwise seminar. I would love to be included in a private workshop with you , what an honour! I pick #2. Thanks for the chance to win!

Boy, would I like to win the unframed watercolor, beautiful succulent themed note cards, a bouquet of succulent rosettes, the very cool mug, or the fabulous two-hour private container workshop at Oasis Water Efficient Gardens nursery in Escondido with you! Along with a signed and personalized copy of Succulents Simplified! What’s not to love ? Very happy to have stumbled upon your work 🙂

Succulents are great favorites of mine, but I could use some help with combining them. Would love your 2-hour workshop, painting, or coffee mug, along with your book, Succulents Simplified. And thank you for your blog-really enjoy it.

Hi Debra-lee,

I would love to win your a copy of your new book Succulents Simplified & the 101 design ideas for my garden & shop.
I am a floral designer & weddings specialist in Australia, who enjoys using succulents to add that special little quirkness to a brides bq. My garden is enormous with lots of ideas formed from Debra ‘s other 2 books which I share with everyone who visit my garden. I can’t find enough succulents to fill all the ideas I have to do in my garden , having your new book & my ideas to jump into will burst me with more ideas

Debra, I’ve been growing succulents, orchids and other landscape-type flowers for many years and even have a 40 year old jade that I’ve “shared” with everyone I know. Until I met you through your first two books though, I never really knew what a joy succulents could be, and how important they would eventually be to my lifestyle!! Through your illustrations, videos, the books that you’ve written, and the encouragement of my wonderful husband, Barry, I had the courage to quit a job I absolutely hated and now I’m working harder than ever, but I’m working in my garden and my own greenhouse!! I started my business in May, 2012, and I give you so much credit for helping me believe in myself. I bought a calendar from your website in January so I can be inspired everyday, but it would be nice to start my mornings with your new book and a Debra Lee Baldwin coffee mug. 😉 Thanks again Debra, for bringing so much joy to me and to so many others–All the best, Lydia Dunaway – St. Augustine, FL

Debra,

You have made me such a fan of succulents! After attending your workshop at Oasis through a gardener’s club, and purchasing your book Succulent Container Gardens, my yard has just taken off! I am no longer afraid to make container pots for my patio or plant succulents among my in ground native plants. I am even remembering some the names of what I plant!

I would be thrilled beyond belief to receive any gift. Since I have attended the workshop on my own, I would like to withdraw from winning that fabulous prize and give someone else this wonderful experience. My top choice would be the book and agave painting. Not only would I love to have another book to give me even more great ideas, the agave painting would be a great way to bring more succulent beauty indoors. I will be at the Succulent Celebration June 8th. I do not blog, Pinterest, Twitter, or even Facebook, but everyone who comments on my garden gets to hear how it all started with your book and workshop!

debra
i love all your work and would be honored to try and win your breathtaking agave print or since im such a succulent hoarder and loves growing echeverias west coast style in eastern north carolina id be stuck on even one of your new succulent boook! i have 2 of your others signed by you and i share them with my customers to give them insperation and facts that we can grow succulents as annuals here in north carolina.keep up the awesome work!
signed
your east coast admirer
scott

Debra you are an inspiration to all us succulent lovers! My yard is a postage stamp compared to yours but because your first book inspired me to get rid of my grass, I now enjoy exploring my yard for unique looking plants and their blooms. In addition I am giving away bags of cuttings. Hope to see you on June 7th

I love your presentations and books and really enjoy your artistry with succulents. I’m a Counselor and would love your watercolor for my office; it would match perfectly and the students and I would appreciate it every day! I’d also love a sunny day in San Diego spending time with you and my friends, laughing, learning, and creating! Who could ask for more? Thanks for the opportunity to participate. 🙂

I would love the first two prizes, the painting and book and the chance to meet and work with you.

We are in the process of redoing our yard in water wise plants. I have had a few containers of succulents, but nothing on this scale and I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. I adore gardening though and I’m looking forward to the challenge of creating an interesting and water efficient space. I love reading blogs and I recently discovered that many of my favorite parts of Sunset Mag were also from you. I am bringing my mother-in-law and son to your friday presentation and I’m really excited about it. I hope to have a few questions answered about my soil type and gardening with succulents.

Love the new book! I shared a pic on facebook the day I got it!
I have all 3 books now and learn so much. Especially love all the photos!
I would be happy with any prize!

Hi. Congrats! On your newest book & cannot wait to get my hands on it. I would love to win I, 3, 4 or 5. Would love the one on one time but I live far away & it would be hard to manage a trip away from home-especially with a toddler. Thank’s for all your helpful info. & your beautiful work with succulents etc.

Your books have given me so much inspiration and I can’t wait to see the new one. Whilst I’d LOVE the workshop, it would be tricky travelling from Australia :-/ Equally the bouquet would probably die in quarantine :-(. Another one of your books would be just amazing, but the greeting cards would be just wonderful. Nicky

Hi Debra
Excited about the new book. Met you at the Malibu Garden Club with my daughter Jennifer. I am a beginning watercolor painter so I would love to win your painting. Also the cup is too cute so if I won that I would give it to my Jennifer. My succulents are quite beautiful now and people stop by my front yard to view them continually. I got my inspiration from you.

Great success on your new book!
Phyllis Lewandoski

Congratulations on all your wonderful creative success!!!!

My first selection for a prize gift would be your class. I have some special master gardener friends who love succulents as much as I do. It would be such a wonderful treat to spend the day with them visiting and learning from you 🙂

But truly I would be honored to receive any of your special creative gifts!!!
Wishing you continued success in all you do 🙂

Debra – What a savvy marketer you are! I am impressed a group of us from Laguna Beach Garden Club are attending on June 7 at WaterWise Botanicals. I am excited to meet you personally and learn more about succulents.
I would enjoy the class (I will give it as a gift as I am traveling this summer), the agave watercolor & book, or the bouquet.
See you on Friday June 7.

I sure want the watercolor. Magical.

The watercolor draw would be my second entry.

Thank you for this opportunity!

I would LOVE to have the watercolor and of course the book! The watercolor, because I paint also and love watercolors! The colors would be perfect in my Southwestern style bedroom! To have the book would be wonderful because I love succulents most of all my plants! It’s a beautiful book!!

I became a succulent fanatic at the first Succulent Extravaganza at Robin Stockwell’s Succulent Gardens in Castroville. Listening to Debra give a seminar there and having her sign “Succulent Container Gardening” sealed the interest for me. Because of recent shoulder surgery, my plans to attend the book signing at Waterwise Botannicals, June 7,8 has been scrapped. So, I am hoping to contend for either the Agave watercolor, the 7 notecards or the graptopetalum mug. Thank you for consideration. Nancy

Used you book Designing with Succulents as a gardening Bible.
Our yard has been on two garden tours and everyone has loved our succulents.
I would love your seminar or the bouquet.

I saw you present at the San Diego Home and Garden Show and love your passion for succulents. I have your other books and am looking forward to your new book. My friend and I will be attending the celebration at the Waterwise Botanicals and you are the main reason that we are going. I love all the prizes that you have offered, but mainly the watercolor painting, the notecards and the mug. Actually I would love to win the private container workshop. I recently took my front yard lawn out and replaced it with waterwise plants, mostly succulents. I recycled a friend’s backyard concrete patio that she was taking out. I broke it up and used all the pieces for my stepping stones. I stained them with the fertilizer, Ironite, and the whole walkway only cost me $25., two bags of Ironite. I look forward to seeing you at Waterwise Botanicals. I will now share your book cover on my Facebook. Thank you for all that you have contributed to the world of succulents.

I am looking forward to owning your new book. When your first book came out, you did a book signing at our Fallbrook Garden Club garden tour. I had never experienced the joy of gardening exclusively with succulents, and your book inspired me. I had an area that surrounded my front entrance (and beyond) that definitely needed a face lift. So I proceeded to take out all the grass, add paths here and there and start my succulent garden. Needless to say it has been a wonderful experience and very rewarding.
I would love to win your succulent rosettes and eventually add them to my gardens.
Your watercolor would be another way to appreciate your artistry.
Thank you for your inspiration!
Tina

Congrats on your new book! Seeing as how I’m not in CA to attend your workshop I would really like a succulent bouquet, or your watercolor painting so I can hang on my wall or your book so I can be even more obsessed with succulents, if that’s even possible! I like the mug too even though I don’t really drink coffee I could put more plants in it.

Hi Debra,
Succulents are my newest obsession!! I love to trade clippings with friends!! I would love to win the succulent bouquet! I would also be very happy to win your book!! I was at the San Mateo home and garden show and saw your “sneak peek” of the book! I hope the luck is with me!! Your ideas are amazing!

Hi! I LOVE your new book, I received it hot off the press and have already read it- gorgeous photos and great information! Thank you!
I’d love any of the prizes which don’t require being local to San Diego. I’m especially interested in the rosette bouquet.
Thanks so much!

Wow! I LOVE that painting!! I would love to win that! I’d be equally excited to win the cards and the mug and the bouquet! Most of all I must have your book, it looks amazing. I posted your book cover on my FB wall to share your knowledge with my friends 🙂
Kim

Hi Debra,

I consider your books my “bibles” for succulent information. I am constantly referring to them as I design succulent gardens. I was truly inspired by the garden on the cover of your book, Designing with Succulents.
I would love your note cards with the succulent photos. I still mail pictures to my plant friends placed in pretty cards with a message and send them by “snail mail”. I try very hard, but I can never get as beautiful a photo of a succulent as you do.
I would also love your mug with the graptopetalum painting on it. That succulent has such an iridescent color that It is difficult to capture its full beauty. Your picture appears to have captured its loveliness. Also, I always seem to have a cup of coffee by my side as I create my landscape designs.
I am definitely planning to attend the Succulent Celebration on Friday with several of my plant-loving friends. I look forward to seeing you there, and hearing your presentation.
Linda

Forgot to mention I shared, shared, shared and tweeted about your book. Very exciting.

Hi Debra, I love your first book Designing with Succulents because there are so many fabulous photos of succulents in the ground and it has given me lots of ideas and inspiration. Your photos are also clear, true to color, and highlight the beauty of these plants. Thank you for your great work and for offering such a nice giveaway! I would love to win the watercolor because the colors are gorgeous. I would also be happy to win the greeting cards because I would send them to all my succulent loving friends to share the gift. All are such wonderful prizes because they come with your new book – I can’t wait to see those luscious pages!

I pre-ordered and have received your new book. I love it just as I do your other two books. I would love to receive any of your giveaways, but especially 1, 2 or 3. My father lives in San Diego and attending one of your workshops would be a great excuse to visit him! You and your books are a large reason why I and many of my friends are obsessed with succulents these days. I heard you speak at last fall’s Succulent Extravaganza at Succulent Gardens and am hoping you’ll be there again this year. Thanks for all that you do!

I posted about your new book on my Facebook page first, and now want to tell you how excited I am to be able to attend the workshop on June 7th with my husband. We both have that day off.
I am having a special birthday this summer, I am turning 60, and I think it would be a fun gift for me and a friend from work, to attend a private container workshop with you. I live in Ramona, and have some nice succulents that I have gotten as gifts or purchased my self, and would love to get some tips from you on how to make cuttings for new arrangements or plant the singles with other succulents. If I won the bouquet of rosettes that would be great to enjoy for a while and use those cuttings for more arrangements in pots in my newly updated backyard.
Your book sounds great, as I love to look at pictures of succulent arrangements. It will be fun to read and use thinking we both live in a similar climate only a few miles from each other.

Hi Debra,

You are so generous! Sorry, cannot choose.

All the best,
Sue

I came across your blog today when trying to identify a plant. Thanks to your website I was able to identify the plant as a ghost plant, but not only that – I was able to see how adaptable and variable it can be depending on conditions. I’ve added your page as a resource when I publish the post about the plant. I would love some of your cards, as I think succulents are a bit under-appreciated so would like to send them on to friends and family. But any prize that includes your Succulents Simplified book would be fantastic.
Thank you for sharing such wonderful information on your blog – it’s now in my ‘blogs I’m reading’ list on blogger!

Your book sounds FABULOUS! And so does the giveaway!!! I’d love to have any of the prizes, but especially the workshop. Thank you so much for doing this; I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

Hi Debra. I found out about the give away from Sweet Stuff Sassy Succulents.

I would like the mug and book because I am a true fan of your work and I drink a lot of tea. Drinking tea out of the graptopetalum mug would be grape– I mean, great!

I would love the painting because I love all things agave, I even dream about them!

I reread your books and watch your videos regularly, and always come away with new ideas and fresh inspiration. Thank you!

Hi Debra! Congrats on your new book! I recently got into succulents and I am addicted to them. I am a new gardener and succulents make gardening(especially to a novice like myself) so easy and fun. I just bought all your books a month ago and had your new book pre-ordered. I just received Succulent Simplified by mail last week. I would love the library of pictures because I truly enjoy how you capture the beauty of the plants. Your photos are what drew me to succulents in the first place! You are a gifted artist. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work with the world and inspiring people like me!

Alyssa in Irvine, CA

I would love the book and mug – it’s beautiful and functional! And your book would be such a great reference to have!

I have an obsession. You, and your previous books, are responsible. Dallas is not the most hospitable place to indulge this obsession, but you’ve shown me the way. My own white dog, Hamic, and I have morning coffee amid my 73 pots of succulents each morning. It is only fitting that I enjoy that coffee in your graptopetalum painted cup. Thank you for the proper introduction to such beauty – both alive and on canvas.

Wow! This is a great giveaway. Unfortunately, I can’t go to San Diego next month. Anyway, I l would love to have the bouquet of a dozen succulent rosettes you’ve made. It looks really pretty. 😀

Hi Debra,
I would be thrilled beyond belief to win a book, anything else would be a fantastic bonus. Since taking a workshop with you through a gardener’s club, my garden has just taken off! I am no longer afraid to experiment with succulents, and have them integrated between all of my native plantings. I have read your Succulent Container Gardens book cover to cover and it has given me the ability to arrange beautiful container pots for my porch and patio. I am even remembering the names of most of the ones I plant! I do not facebook, tweet, or pinterest, but anyone commenting on my garden gets to hear how you have been my inspiration through your workshop and book. I am very much looking forward to the Succulent Celebration June 8th. and your potting demo.

Hi! We heard you speak at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show this spring. As a lifelong succulent devotee, I would love the bouquet and book. Thanks!

The book is awesome. I love the rosette bouquet and the water color is gorgeous!

Debra,

I would be over the moon if I won the two hour consultation with you and would be able to invite three succulent loving friends along. I have two of your books and have heard you speak. Your ideas for growing, caring, rescuing and arranging plants are inspiring and easy to follow. The notecards would also be a pleasing item to win. A handwritten note, with your lovely design, is almost a novelty these days and would surely surprise and delight the recipient.

In any event, I will be at the succulent extravaganza in Escondido on June 7th and will see you then.

The watercolor is gorgeous so that would be my first choice since I can’t be in CA for the workshop. The book “Succulents Simplified”, would be wonderful as well as the bouquet of rosettes. The greeting cards, mug, & online photo access would be great also.

Thanks for sharing your talents!

Debra,

I just received your book yesterday- I love it! So excited to try the projects.

I love your enthusiasm and gentle handle holding. I feel like I can really be successful with these new projects.

I was introduced to the joy of succulents by my aunt. She has limited mobility due to parkinsons and her favorite things are going to thrift stores and succulents. She has now combined these two loves and uses her treasures from thrift stores and her succulents and makes beautiful upcycled arrangements. Her third love is cats, but she hasn’t quite figured out a way to combine all three, other than using cat shaped items in her succulent creations. She has donated some of these arrangements to charities that work with women as prizes for a silent auction. I have given her your book regarding designing container succulent arrangements and am hoping that I can win a prize on your blog so that I can have another copy of your book to give to her.

My first choice would be to share the class with my aunt. I know she would love it. She lives in Orange County and I live in San Diego, so it would be a nice day trip. She would love to learn some new tips and I am sure she would be inspired by the beautiful surroundings at Waterwise Botanicals.

My second choice would be the beautiful water color. Again, I would give this to my aunt. The colors in the piece are gorgeous and I am sure she would love looking at it in her house.

My third choice would be the greeting cards. Yes, my aunt would love these. She does not use a computer, so handwritten notes are her main form of communication.

My fourth choice is the gorgeous rosettes. I would split this with my aunt after she enjoyed it- we could share the starters if we didn’t have them in our yards already.

My fifth choice is the mug. Of course, I would like it for my aunt. Again, the colors are great and I am sure she would enjoy it.

Thank you so much for the wonderful opportunity to win one of your great prizes and for making succulents even more accessible!

P.S. I also posted on facebook, pinterest and left a review on Amazon.

Thank you!

I would love a Dudleya mug because they are just to darn adorable.

I’m in Love with your books & Succulents!!!

My mother loves succulents and I know she would really enjoy the container workshop. She has many succulents decorating her yard. It would be nice to be able to attend that with her. I also really like the bouquet of succulents. What a beautiful way to display them. Thank you for hosting such a wonderful giveaway. I look forward to reading your book.

Since I fell in love with your other two books, I wouldn’t go potting w/o them, another book would just add to my fantastic collection. The painting would look gorgeous in my “green room”, the mug would look darling in my kitchen, and nothing would be better than to win a “one-on-one” planting session with you as the instructor (I’m sure a couple of my Bunco buddies would love to join in as well)!!
Looking forward to your new book, whether I win one or buy it, it’ll be in my plant book collection soon enough!
I live in Spring Valley and have my own greenhouse in Jamul where I propagate my own succulents, what else? They are so much fun & so easy to take care of, that I’m hooked!!

I’d love the succulent roses; such a wonderful bouquet.

Thank you so kindly for the opportunity!

Please do not notify me of comments by email! I’d love to get them but there are way too many!!! Thank you. I would still love to see Debra’s posts, though.

Congratulations on your new book. I am so excited to get my hands on it. My love for succulents comes from my mother from many many years ago. I think all of your prizes are fantastic but I would really love the beautiful coffee mug. I love your watercolors and I used to visit my mom, who is deceased, and we would always have a cup of coffee. Your beautiful mug would daily remind me my love for succulents and also remind me of my loving mother.

I often read your blog and now share with my daughters. Thanks for being a great inspiration.

A tough decision – #1 the watercolor or #5 the mug – hmmm. I think #1, the watercolor because: it’s an original, I love agaves, and it will fit beautifully in our bathroom with other garden art.

I’m so looking forward to getting a copy of your new book. Now I’ll have to wait until 6/3 to order it in the hopes that I’ll be a winner. And possibly a copy of your online photo album! Wow! More anticipation!

Thank you for having the Giveaway!
Cheers,
Annie Morgan

Prize #1, your watercolor, would be my first choice followed by either the Prize #4, the notecards, and Prize #5, the beautiful mug! The reason I would love these is that they would be a great surprise for my wife!!!

I just recieved your new book. I have all three of your books and buy them in groups of 3 and give them to friends.

Wow, what a generous giveaway contest! Any of the prizes would be wonderful to win, so it’s a little hard to rank them, but I’ll try.

I think I’d most like to win the agave watercolor (#1). The “close-up” composition and intense coloring are very appealing and capture the simple but striking form of agaves (plus this one won’t send out numerous pups to control ;-). I enjoy having touches of original artwork in our home, particularly from local artists.

I’d also be very pleased to win the container workshop (#2). I’ve enjoyed the instructional online video clips, of course, but there’s nothing like an in-person experience, is there? I have a really good local friend who, like me, is also trying to creatively add more succulents to her water-wise garden, so if I was lucky enough to win that prize, I’d invite her. I could also invite 1 or 2 neighbor friends who would quickly learn to love succulents in their gardens if provided a gentle “nudge”. I’m in nearby in Encinitas, have a flexible schedule, and can easily get to the Oasis Nursery for a workshop.

The notecards (#4) are also a very appealing prize, as I prefer to send either my own handmade cards or cards of local artists/photographers. Also, card sets with local images make great hostess gifts when we travel (light weight, easy-to-pack, a “slice-of-home” interest, plus, who can’t use some lovely cards?). Many of my card recipients have told me they enjoyed the card images so much they kept and framed them (I’ve done the same thing); who frames a mass-produced card?

I’m not a big fan of cut flower arrangements, because they just aren’t practical enough, despite their beauty. Whether commercially grown flowers or cut freshly from the garden, cut floral arrangements require daily water changes, removal of spent flowers, & continually re-cutting stems if one hopes to enjoy their fleeting beauty as long as possible; even so, one is lucky to get more than 10 days of enjoyment before it’s time to send them to the compost pile. But the long-lasting and re-plantable succulent rosette concept (#3) is very intriguing, so a chance to enjoy some “in the flesh” would be a very long-lasting treat, and perhaps just the incentive I need to try making rosettes myself.

I already own a copy of Succulents Simplified that I pre-ordered as soon as I hear about it, but having a signed copy would be quite useful. I often get a 2nd copy of favorite books, so I can lend without fear of being without a copy to consult when I need it (or if the lent book doesn’t find its way back to me).

Also, I shared on Facebook today that I read Succulents Simplified cover-to-cover during a lengthy wait at Urgent Care over the recent Memorial Day Weekend (no worries, nothing too serious). I was so glad the book arrived just before driving to UC. I literally unpacked the book from the mail packaging in the car before I entered the UC clinic; what an excellent opportunity to dive into the book uninterrupted. I barely noticed the long wait time. A nurse even asked me about the book and took a photo of the cover with her phone camera because she just bought a home and was looking for easy-care re-landscaping ideas to replace the time and water-consuming lawn.

I’ve gone on far too long, but it’s hard to be brief when I think about how much my views and use of succulents have evolved since encountering your books last year while searching for a better way to re-design and maintain my water-wise garden in Encinitas. Your books provide not only provide design inspiration and clear, appealing photos of the best plant choices for home gardeners (and not just in So Cal), but also the practical information needed to plant, propagate, and maintain the plants so that they remain healthy and attractive without nearly as much work as many other popular home landscape plants. None of the other many books on succulents that I consulted last year were nearly as useful to me as I prepared our garden for a mid-Jan to mid-May absence while we were out of the country. Sure, a few succulents suffered from frost during winter cold snaps, and some unirrigated potted succulents suffered from lack of rain when the winter was over, but overall, we returned to a garden in better overall shape than we’ve ever found following even shorter absences. If I’d read Succulents Simplified before we left, I KNOW that that more of the plants would have survived the long period of neglect relatively unscathed. So I’m definitely hooked on succulents and plan to incorporate even more in our garden in the future (especially in containers!).

Being new to succulent gardening your book looks wonderful. Love the cup. Sweetstuff had your site.

Hi, I actually stumbled upon a garden show this AM for the first time on my Kindle and heard YOU! I am far away in NM, but the mug and the book may be “doable” in case I am a prize recipient.

I have been on a real journey with gardening in the Southwest, in general, as I came here 15 years ago from NJ where I was a Master Gardener (Rutgers U.-sponsored.) Needless to say, it was a total shock to become a gardener in the harsh environment of the high desert where I live now!

Of course, succulents came to the fore. Let me share my experience with one I had grown with spectacular success in NJ…but, required a “re-tooling” when I got here! The Sedum “Autumn Joy” …so common, so easy to grow, right? In NJ, I had several that were placed to get the strong afternoon sun. In the ground, they grew to be big, robust plants about 3 feet wide! They almost looked like bushes!
Then…..I move to a location at about 4500 feet, with the harsh sun and the very dry summer and a yard that is like a wind tunnel…..well, in the ground they go and …..poor results. So, into wide, bowl shaped pots and, although I will never get the huge “bushes” I had in NJ, I have plants now do well “down-sized” and that overwinter with protection. Cut them back, give the a bit of B1/trace minerals in the spring and they revive beautifully at the start of the season. If there are any gaps from die-back, I fill it with a nice garden ornament.
Now, as the heat and sun intensify, I am able to move them to gentler locations. I usually place them where they get some filtered sun in the afternoons. I water regularly and they stay in good condition. In the fall, I get a small display of flowers, but I don’t get upset about that. I’m just happy to be able to have a nice display of healthy green plants through the summer and fall in this very trying environment…not only the heat, but the wind in the micro-climate that is my yard. The combination of factors means it is important to understand the changing conditions and being able to move the plants to
locations which they can adapt to throughout the year!!

I also grow cacti outdoors, aloe indoors…. but would love to learn even more to make my garden even more colorful through using succulents!!

Thanks for all your knowledge!

Thanks for the opportunity of free gifts. I would like to have the prize (5), so that I could enjoy the morning coffee at my backyard with my lovely succulents and your new book. I had bought your book “Designing with Succulents” and “Succulent Container Gardens”, used to read them every night while I was crazy about collecting succulents. Very informative, thanks again.

Debra,

Wow, I’m so happy for you, 347 posts with a full day to go! Your book arrived from Amazon Thursday. I’ve only had time to read the first two chapters, as expected, it’s excellent. I considered taking Friday as a vacation day but had an important project to finish for one of my best clients.

I wanted to support your contest in some small way. I just read through a number of contestant’s entries – it must be satisfying to know how much you are appreciated. Each prize has great appeal and I’m sure the winners will be thrilled. I already won earlier this year and so will not add to the intrigue. (Only two of your offspring have found Jersey inhabitable.)

I’m thrilled for you and look forward to seeing the results.

Your friend,

John Drexel

Hi Debra
I would love your agave watercolor painting as it reminds me of our gracing paths throughout the years. (Mainly at Rogers Gardens)
It will be the first painting hung in my first forever home.

When we first met years ago I felt as though we were plantmates. Someone who could see and share the same love and passions for these textural beauties. You have since fulfilled my dreams from speaking sharing growing and art. You are my go to book of knowledge. Thank you for all that you have given us.
Anne

I’d be ecstatic to win any of the above, but the watercolor agave would be especially of interest to me, for obvious reasons… ahem… and the container garden workshop would be most handy, considering I’m dying to start my own, but haven’t the first clue how to go about it!

The nursery outing with Debra would be a delight. Once we have finished you are more than welcome to come explore my 2 acres in Anaheim and see what I have been creating with succulents and other plants thus far. It is always so much fun to learn new ways to combine and use succulents. Hope to hear you speak in June in Palos Verdes.

I’m totally addicted to succulents. I enjoy seeing all your Facebook postings and your newsletters. You do awesome work. I went to you’re last workshop at Waterwise Botanicals and am looking forward to the upcoming one, and looking forward to getting your new book. I would be pleased to win any of the prizes, but would especially love the 2 hour private workshop. Thank you for this opportunity.

Just picked up the new book yesterday at the SDCSS show and would love to attend a workshop and learn how to make those gorgeous bowls and baskets! The book is great – I already learned some new facts about a couple of plants in our collection.

Congratulations on book 3! I refer to your book 2 for inspiration each time I rearrange my container garden with new must have plants. Your agave watercolor is gorgeous and would look great overlooking my family of potted succulents. Your succulent bouquet would first be enjoyed, then dissected and distributed among my growing list of friends converted to succulent fans based on the insight from your books, photos, and videos. Thanks for all your inspiration!

Looks like some awesome material that I would love to win. I would especially love to read your book, awesome information you always provide.