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  • silvery blue Cuban wax palm
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    GPOD on the Road: Gage Park Tropical Greenhouse

    Friend-of-the-GPOD Cherry Ong is taking us along today to tour a beautiful greenhouse. Serendipitous visits are fun! In a recent trip to Ontario, we saw a street banner that advertised…

  • close up of pink cannonball tree flower
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    GPOD on the Road: Caribbean Gardens

    Hello, I’m Lisa Remby. I have shared photos of my Zone 6b Massachusetts garden on GPOD before  (A New Garden in Massachusetts). Recently, my husband and I visited two gardens…

  • various palm trees around a pool that overlooks a river
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    How Tim Grows Palms in New York

    Today’s post is from Tim Covington, who likes gardening with a tropical flare—even though he gardens in chilly upstate New York. My obsession with palm trees and tropicals came from…

  • vintage post box surrounded by large, bright pink flowers
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    GPOD on the Road: Sydney, Australia

    Hello, this is Cindy Strickland. I wanted to share a few scenes from an October 2017 trip I took to the area around Sydney, Australia. I enjoyed walking in and…

  • Maranta leuconera in a hanging planter with ornaments
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    Collecting Plants in Southern California

    Today we’re visiting with Nez, a plant lover who is building her own backyard botanical garden in Los Angeles. I think of this Monstera pinnatipartita as my “soul plant.” My…

  • close up of light pink and yellow plumaria flowers
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    Flowers From Puerto Rico

    It has been a while since we visited the beautiful Puerto Rican garden of Antigonum Cajan (Filling a Small Garden With Diversity). Today we are looking at some more images…

  • bridge over small creek that leads to tropical villa
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    GPOD on the Road: Radjagaluh, Indonesia

    Today’s photos are from Bas Suharto and were taken on a trip to Indonesia. (For photos of Bas's beautiful front garden, check out Parterre Garden in Ottawa) I stayed a…

  • 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…

  • summer container plants
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    Exciting Container Plants for Summer

    I’m particularly fond of big, gaudy plants, but I like teeny tiny ones too. Large-leaved tropical plants really take the heat and can do wonders for planters around pool decks…

  • 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…