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20 late afternoon garden photos

Geiger Garden - Agave Pots and Carcharodons

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. Likely the most popular request…

August 10, 2017

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Filed Under: HODGEPODGE Tagged With: Agaves, Aloes, Bromeliads, Cactus, Cycads, Dypsis, Flowering Perennials, Flowering Shrubs, Flowering Trees, Garden Art, Palm Trees, Rock Garden, Tropical Plants

Massive Garden Project Update #1

Licuala ramsayi Transplant

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 exception. The concrete guy I…

June 29, 2017

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Filed Under: LANDSCAPING Tagged With: Agaves, Bromeliads, Cycads, Dypsis, Landscape, Palm Trees, Tropical Plants

PSSC Meeting – Gregg Hamann Garden Tour

Gregg Hamann - Pool

It is not often that you have an opportunity to visit a multi-generational garden. So when the Palm Society of Southern California (PSSC) quarterly meeting was going to be held at one of my favorite palm gardens in Southern California, I knew I would be blocking off that time on my busy schedule. The Gregg…

May 25, 2017

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Filed Under: TOURS Tagged With: Aloes, Cycads, Dypsis, Garden Art, Palm Trees, Tropical Plants

A closeup view of a Southern California rainy day garden

Rainy Day Dypsis prestoniana Leaves

A rainy day garden: often a curse in the tropics, but a rare treat in Southern California. I can honestly tell you that I have never said, “Oh, darn. It’s going to rain” while I have had my garden here in Vista, California. If you do not live in a low-rainfall Mediterranean climate, you can not really understand why rain…

February 9, 2017

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Filed Under: HODGEPODGE Tagged With: Agaves, Aloes, Bromeliads, Cactus, Cycads, Dypsis, Flowering Perennials, Flowering Shrubs, Garden Art, Hibiscus, Palm Trees, Tropical Plants, Weather

My most memorable images from Madagascar

Isalo National Park Bismarckia nobilis

Some readers may have taken note that the last few posts I have uploaded have been posts in which I am catching up on my Madagascar trip. That trip is almost a year and a half old now. Work, kids, life, etc., all got in the way of me finishing those posts back then. I can…

January 19, 2017

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Filed Under: HODGEPODGE Tagged With: Aloes, Dypsis, Madagascar, Travel, Water Wise

The exceptional garden of Bob De Jong

Bob De Jong Garden

Welcome to the new year. Welcome to Bob’s garden. Last year I wrote a post about aloes, with a spotlight on hybrids. Those plants were all from the exceptional garden of Bob De Jong. That post received a lot of positive feedback and came with many private requests to see more. Wanting to oblige, I have waited…

January 5, 2017

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Filed Under: TOURS Tagged With: Agaves, Aloes, Cycads, Dypsis, Garden Art, Palm Trees, Rock Garden, Water Wise

Plant snobbery and the disrespect for the common

Mediterranean Fan Palm (Chamaerops humilis)

Plant snobs. Any long-time gardener or plant collector has run into them. The further you dig yourself into the gardening lifestyle, the more the plant snobbery reveals itself. Sadly, what is lost in all this is the beauty that can be found in a commonly available plant. Common plants become common for a reason. After many…

November 24, 2016

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Filed Under: HODGEPODGE Tagged With: Aloes, Cycads, Dypsis, Palm Trees, Rants

Palm tree growing tips: Stuewe and Sons Treepots

Stuewe and Sons Treepot Greenhouse Setting

This is the second post of an ongoing blog series on Married to Plants about palm tree growing tips. The first post was about palm tree mounding. This post is on the exceptional Stuewe and Sons treepots and the benefits of using their containers with palm cultivation. Because your choice of container is one of the…

October 20, 2016

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Filed Under: PALMS Tagged With: Dypsis, Gardening Tips, Palm Trees

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