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    Cacti and Succulents for Cold Climates

    Many succulents, including cacti, can survive outdoors where winters are cold. These long-lived plants bring four seasons of living sculpture to a sunny, well-drained garden, and they offer up striking…

  • rock garden with lots of white and yellow flowers
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    GPOD on the Road: Stillwater, Oklahoma

    Hi GPODers. This is Joseph, your GPOD editor. I recently took a trip to Stillwater, Oklahoma, and thought I’d share some of the beautiful garden scenes I got to enjoy…

  • close up of giant yellow Leucospermum
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    Back to Steve’s Garden

    Steve, who lives in the heart of Los Angeles in Southern California, shared some beauties of this garden with us recently (Steve's Southern California Garden), and today we’re back to…

  • waterwise containers
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    Container Plantings That Thrive on Neglect

    I don’t worry about the pots that need to be watered when I go on a summer vacation. I worry instead about the pots that don’t need to be watered.…

  • close up of prickly pear cactus fruit
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    Fall in South Carolina

    Johanna Smith here in Aiken, South Carolina, with pleasures and treasures from my fall garden. My Meyer lemon tree (Citrus × meyeri, Zones 8–11) has become as wide as my…

  • inside Garfield Park Conservatory
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    GPOD on the Road: Garfield Park Conservatory

    Hello all! It is Joseph your GPOD editor here, taking you along on a recent trip I took to Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. I’d not been there before and…

  • Episode 117: Tender Plants Worth Saving
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    Episode 117: Tender Plants Worth Saving

    Nearly everyone can grow tropical plants outdoors during the summer months, but when the first frosts are forecasted, gardeners in colder climates know there will be some tough decisions ahead.…

  • cactus with large bright red flowers
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    Idaho Gardening with Nich

    Today’s photos are from Nich, who works as a plant breeder and grower at Edward’s Greenhouse in Boise, Idaho, which is in USDA Zone 6. This beautiful view is from…

  • Echinocactus grusonii
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    Designing a Cacti and Succulent Garden in the Southwest

    Warming climate trends are creating more opportunities to add diverse succulents to Southwestern gardens. In Santa Fe, where I live, our USDA Zone has moved from Zone 5 in 1995…

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    Beautiful Plants in Alberta

    Brody lives in northern Alberta, Canada, and loves observing interesting native plants in the wild as well as growing all sorts of unusual plants at home. Drosera rotundifolia (sundew, Zones…