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    Palm Tree Spotlight: Dictyocaryum lamarckianum

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  • Propagating Crotons from stem cuttings

    Propagating Crotons from stem cuttings

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  • 20 late afternoon garden photos

    20 late afternoon garden photos

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  • The long flowering season of the Yellow Geiger Tree (Cordia lutea)

    The long flowering season of the Yellow Geiger Tree (Cordia lutea)

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  • Massive Garden Project Update #3 - Planter Bed Preparation

    Massive Garden Project Update #3 - Planter Bed Preparation

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Dictyocaryum lamarckianum at The Lost City Colombia

Palm Tree Spotlight: Dictyocaryum lamarckianum

So let’s use this blog post here to create the most amazing palm tree in the world. Where do we start? I would imagine with size. I say bigger is better, so we’ll want a thick trunk on a tall palm. The leaves should be long and plumose for that…

February 14, 2019

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Croton Propagation - Stem Cutting

Propagating Crotons from stem cuttings

When I started my garden 12 years ago I had no idea that such a colorful and tropical plant as a croton (Codiaeum variegatum) would grow, let alone excel, in Southern California. Through the years I have been fortunate enough to test close to 25 different cultivars to the garden. Some…

August 17, 2017

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Geiger Garden - Agave Pots and Carcharodons

20 late afternoon garden photos

I needed a quick post for this week as I will be in North Carolina for our family reunion at the Outer Banks. So before heading out with the wife and kids for a 3 AM departure, I went outside the day before and shot some late afternoon garden photos….

August 10, 2017

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Cordia lutea (Yellow Geiger Tree) - Flowers

The long flowering season of the Yellow Geiger Tree (Cordia lutea)

I am getting back to my roots for this week’s blog post. When I started Married to Plants a few years ago, many of my posts were written to introduce readers (particularly in Southern California) to new plants that I have had success with and that they might enjoy growing…

July 27, 2017

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Planter Bed Preparation - Rototiller

Massive Garden Project Update #3 – Planter Bed Preparation

This is the third and final update post tracking the progress of my large garden project. The next one I write will be to show the finished product all planted out. However, in order to get to the planting phase, I must first do some planter bed preparation. You’ll need…

July 20, 2017

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Dry Creek Bed - Medium River Rock Placement

The building of a dry creek bed

I have had a lot going on the last few weeks. As most already know, I am in the process of doing a pretty large landscape remodel and trying to coordinate all that with a busy summer schedule. The concrete work went in last week and next week the topsoil…

July 13, 2017

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Garden Project Update - Moving Sprinklers

Massive Garden Project Update #2 – Concrete Work

I love putting in new hardscape. Plants are the wildcard in your garden. You can’t totally control plants, no matter how hard you try. You just never really know how long you will want a plant or just how long it will live. Concrete work is permanent. It brings order…

July 6, 2017

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Licuala ramsayi Transplant

Massive Garden Project Update #1

It’s about time for a quick update regarding my “Massive Garden Project” I informed readers about two months ago. To be expected, the project was delayed. So for those who were waiting for this garden project update, I apologize. Large-scale projects never start on time and this one was no…

June 29, 2017

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Thanks for visiting! Married to Plants is the lifestyle blog brainchild of me, Len Geiger. I like to consider myself a Mediterranean climate gardening aficionado with far too much interest in the plants that grow in this climate to be normal.

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