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    Palm Tree Spotlight: Dictyocaryum lamarckianum

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    Propagating Crotons from stem cuttings

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    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

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Cattleya Chocolate Drop Flower

First-time flowers on my Cattleya and Miltonia orchids

There are some plants that you just can’t seem to grow no matter the effort. You love them too much to quit, though. So you keep fighting the good fight. I am not talking about the plants that are just outside your zone and die with each passing winter. I…

February 4, 2015

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Pyrostegia venusta (Flame Vine) on Mexican Fan Palm

How to make a Mexican Fan Palm attractive

So let’s get the tough part out of the way first. The part where I offend some people. It was bound to happen at some point in this post, so let’s just get it over with. I personally find the Mexican Fan Palm (Washingtonia robusta) to be one of the least…

January 28, 2015

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Dennis Willoughby's Front Yard From Street

Dennis Willoughby’s Beautiful Palm Garden

Over the long holiday weekend my wife and I decided to take our kids, dogs and bikes down to Campland on the Bay near Sea World to enjoy the warm weather and get more use out of our trailer. While down there, my lovely wife granted me a free day as long as I…

January 21, 2015

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Plumeria pudica Leaf Litter

Tender tropicals dropping leaves

Until recently, winter was breezing by with evenings staying above the 40-degree fahrenheit Mendoza Line. Unfortunately, the new year ended my unrealistic dream of going through an entire winter without seeing temperatures drop into the thirties. Just about two weeks ago an Arctic storm pushed right through California and brought with it either frost or freezing…

January 14, 2015

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SUPERthrive Archontophoenix Experiment

SUPERthrive experiment on Archontophoenix alexandrae

Ah yes, SUPERthrive. The most well-known snake oil in the gardening world or the champion of plant growth and transplant shock prevention? The debate has raged for decades now. Having personally read and listened to so many opinions on the product over the years, I decided to take the bull by the…

January 7, 2015

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Aloe 'Hellskloof Bells'

A few updates from some older blog post

Readers quite often request updates on the various post that I have made in the past. Sometimes it is because a post may have been left open-ended, but most the times it is because someone wants to know how things turned out. In looking over the last year of post on Married To Plants, these were the ones that I believe…

December 31, 2014

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Yellow Flowering Lithrops

White and yellow flowering Lithrops currently in bloom

I have had another first in the garden. To my surprise, a few of my Lithrops have decided to flower. Now, to be fair, I did only just plant them last spring so I have a few more years to go to see if they will be happy in the long term. However,…

December 17, 2014

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TinyFrog Logo

My first year in review

I can’t believe it has been one year already since I wrote my first blog entry. Many readers who follow the blog won’t know that most everything I wrote this year didn’t actually go live right away. I had been writing for just myself and to build up some content before making everything…

December 10, 2014

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Encephalartos lehmannii x trispinosus
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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