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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Crotons: How To Grow And Care For Codiaeum Variegatum

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Crotons offer a splash of color to any environment. With thick, leathery leaves that have a shiny surface and that grow in a wide variety of colors, they’re admired as an ornamental. They even flower, with both male and female flowers on a given plant — but their inflorescence pales in comparison to the red, orange, yellow, black, even green or bluish-purple hues that the leaves produce. Learn More: Crotons: How To Grow And Care For Codiaeum Variegatum Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today I am back in

0:07.1

San Diego in my recording office slash studio so the quality will be much better thank you so much for bearing

0:14.9

with me on those other podcasts that I released while I was in Alaska let me tell you that

0:20.8

was quite an incredible trip but that's not what this podcast is about this

0:25.9

podcast is about gardening tips and information and today we're talking about crotans

0:30.8

they're a wonderful house plant.

0:33.8

One of the most colorful ones you will ever see.

0:37.6

And relatively easy to care for.

0:39.6

They come in some absolutely amazing different varieties.

0:43.9

So today we're going to talk about how to care for them and a few of the different varieties

0:49.0

I would personally recommend.

0:50.9

And so first, let's talk about those varieties. First you have

0:54.4

gold dust. Now this one is a very common one. You'll find it at almost any

1:00.5

gardening center worth its salt.

1:03.1

It looks like its name.

1:04.6

It looks like someone took golden yellow paint

1:07.6

and pulled a sort of Jackson Pollock play

1:11.2

and just splashed the green leaves with that paint. It really looks

1:15.5

interesting, almost like someone spelled tie-dye ink on it. It's really hard to

1:20.2

describe unless you actually look at it. But in general it is one of the most popular

1:24.9

varieties out there, common as a landscaping shrub, but again you can grow it indoors as well.

1:32.0

Second one, it is the mammy variety. This is a stunning one to

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