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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

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

Photo 120: Digital photography class final project

Photo 120 Final - Chambeyronia hookeri Leaf

A huge part of running a garden blog is the photography. Some of my favorite garden blogs that I frequent feature great photography, and it is a key reason why I visit them so often. Over the last few years of running Married to Plants, I have grown quite a bit as a writer. While my…

December 8, 2016

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Filed Under: HODGEPODGE Tagged With: Agaves, Aloes, Palm Trees, Pottery, Tropical Plants

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

Maintaining a palm garden is not for the faint of heart

Dead - Pritchardia minor

I love plants. After all, I am “married” to them. Hopefully without the other plant groups getting wind of this, I must confess that palm trees are my true love. I lost count some time ago, but if I were to guess, I would say a safe estimate is that I have over 150 different types…

November 17, 2016

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Filed Under: PALMS Tagged With: Palm Trees, Rants

October Ti Society meeting at the home of Norm and Candy Nakanishi

Ti Society Meeting

Last month I was invited to attend a small, local plant group’s monthly meeting in the Los Angeles area. My wife and son were out of town that weekend, so what a great opportunity to stay at Disneyland with my 8-year-old daughter and the next morning attend the meeting and tour a “must-see collection of plants.” So…

November 3, 2016

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Filed Under: TOURS Tagged With: Bromeliads, Cycads, Flowering Perennials, Greenhouse, Palm Trees, Ti Plants, Tropical Plants

Ravenea glauca: A tale of two habitat locations

Ravenea glauca in Andringitra

For palm collectors in California and other Mediterranean climates, Ravenea glauca has become a very popular palm tree over the last two decades. Some of the reasons for the popularity of Ravenea glauca stems from its overall hardiness in terms of cold tolerance, pest resistance and its ability to grow in many types of soil. Not only does it do well…

October 27, 2016

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Filed Under: PALMS Tagged With: Madagascar, Palm Trees

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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