Moonfire and Sun Garden Center

Sometimes called the dumb cane, while the leaves are simple in shape, this houseplant is anything but dumb! Dieffenbachia grow big and bushy, their flappy green leaves often sporting speckles and splashes sit atop straight, strong stems. The director of the Botanical Gardens in Vienna, Italy named this plant after the institution’s head gardener, Joseph […]

Are you someone who’s always wanted a pet bear but shied away because of the fear of getting mauled? Then say hello to the Cotyledon tomentosa, or bear paw, a fuzzy succulent with paw shaped leaves! You can cuddle this bear anytime without fear. Native to South Africa, bear paws belong to the crassula family,

Over 200 species of plants belong to the crassula genus, the most popular being the jade! These are chunky succulents as described by the Latin adjective “crassus” meaning “thick”. Most of these species are found in South Africa, as they are lovers of warmth, sunlight, and arid conditions. A favorite crassula of ours is the

Callisia repens, also known as turtle vine, is a creeping succulent consisting of tiny little leaves that form a trailing mat of foliage followed by odorless flowers. The “pink panther” variety has variegated pink and cream leaves that form a distinctive poof. This species is actually native to the western hemisphere, from the southern part

Originally found in South America, Caladiums are colorful houseplants with pointed leaves. There are two types of caladiums; fancy and lance leaved. Fancy caladiums have heart shaped leaves, while the lanced have narrower, arrow shaped foliage.  Most of the time you’ll see the fancy in a plant store. Caladiums grow from tubers and are often

Cacti is the general term for succulents that have grown spines to adapt to their dry environments. Cacti don’t truly have leaves or branches. They instead grow areoles, the bumps in which spines and flowers grow from. Spines actually help cacti retain water! They decrease the air flow around the plant to trap moisture in.

If you’ve kept an alocasia alive as a houseplant in Central Oregon, you’re a superstar. If there was a human embodiment of the alocasia, it would be a Hollywood diva. What we’re trying to say here is that, like the many assistants required by the famous actors, this plant takes a deeply green thumb, maybe

Otherwise known as Syngonium podophyllum, these plants are a species of aroid native to a majority of Latin America and Mexico. While most often called arrowhead plants due to their clusters of spear-shaped leaves, the latin word “podophyllum” actually means “with foot-like leaves.” We’ve never seen feet shaped quite like this, so we’ll stick with

Plants are considered carnivorous if they capture and kill prey in traps, digest and absorb nutrients from that prey and continue to grow and develop. At Moonfire, we generally have pitcher plants, venus flytraps and sundews in stock. Pitcher plants produce a leaf tube in which the inside walls are coated in a slippery wax.

If your aesthetic is simple, sturdy and straightforward, the clusia is the houseplant for you. Clusia rosea, named after the botanist Carolus Clusius, is a bushy tropical with thick, smooth, succulent-like paddles. Native to the neotropical regions of North and South America, they are often planted as privacy hedges due to their fullness and fast

Coffea arabica or the Arabian coffee plant is for the java lovers out there! This is the dominant species grown for coffee production all over the world. It grows natively only in South Ethiopia and Yemen. Arab scholars were the first to record the benefits of coffee, highlighting that it prolonged their working hours! It

Studies show that roughly 71% of families in the US own at least one pet. Studies also show 66% of families in the US own at least one houseplant. That’s a significant overlap! With there being over 700 species of houseplants reported causing illness in pets, how can pets and houseplants coexist safely and happily?