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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…