Looking for an easy office plant? Try a ponytail palm! It’s anything but high-maintenance like it’s long name. It’s great for busy people who don’t have the time to mist or constantly water. This unique palm, or Beaucarrnea recurvata, is an upright houseplant with ribbon-like leaves and a bulbous root ball. Accustomed to the arid, […]
Meet the parlour palm, or Chamaedorea elegans! Also called a neathe bella palm, these are lush, flouncy tropicals that add a fun texture and fullness to your houseplant collection! Imagine one of these stunning green specimens placed in a fun orange pot, illuminated in the morning light, casting geometric shadows across the floor…yes please! Bringing
The baby rubber plant, or Peperomia obtusifolia, not to be confused with the rubber tree, is a perfect houseplant for beginners with a lovely upright growth pattern. Its round paddles and unique weaving branches makes for a charming addition to your houseplant family. And there’s more to love as it is low drama! It grows
Zebra Haworthia, or Haworthia attenuata is a small succulent from the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. If you’re looking for something that stays tiny for your desk at work, this is your sign to pick up a haworthia! Clusters of spiky green stems with white zebra stripes poke up from the base in an
African Violet, or Streptocarpus Saintpaulia spp., is a classic stunner that flies off our shelves each week. Their fuzzy round leaves grow in clusters culminating in adorable pastel flowers. When looking for a gift to give someone special, this is the houseplant people flock to 90% of the time. It comes in many different colors
Polka Dot Plant, or Hypoestes phyllostachya, is an immediate blast of cheer. Lime green leaves peppered with speckles of pinks, whites and reds mound together in a delightful clump of foliage. They’re especially attractive when planted in a pot with other patterned foliage like calathea for a dazzling array of shapes and colors! Native to
Ah, the spider plant. An absolute classic. It’s painfully easy to take care of, inexpensive and often the first plant one starts off their houseplant journey with. Some of you may think it’s unattractive or boring. But its demure appearance and low-drama nature is deceiving. It’s truly a special houseplant in many ways. Not convinced?
Swedish Ivy or Plectranthus australis, best known as creeping charlie, is the perfect houseplant for the romantics out there. Layers of ruffled leaves drape poetically down their pots like feathered boas. They’re soft and delicate and also come in a variegated variety with lacy white edges. If you’re lucky enough to get them to bloom,
Boston Fern, or Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis is a relative of the sword fern you probably have seen growing in the forests of the pacific northwest. They are also found in South America, Mexico, Central America, Florida, the West Indies, Polynesia and Africa. These gorgeous specimens have the potential to absolutely explode into a mega fern,
Button Fern, aptly dubbed Pellaea rotundifolia in latin for its rotund little leaves, is a species of fern endemic to the scrublands of New Zealand. For those of you who appreciate organization, you’ll love the symmetrical pinnae that stud each frond in a satisfying, neat and tidy arch. Their leathery texture is a fun sensory
Aluminum Plant, or Pilea cadierei is an attractive mounding tropical with fun silvery striations in its long boat shaped leaves. You’ll notice the subtle ruffling around the edges of the leaves, a characteristic of belonging to the nettle family! It luckily does not share the toxic traits of nettles however! Native to China and Vietnam, this
Money Tree, or Pachira aquatica is a species of tropical wetland tree native to central and south America. It’s most often found growing naturally in swamps and can grow up to 75 feet tall! Here in central Oregon, the money tree reaches a mature height of 3 to 6 feet indoors. Its woody trunk is
Burro’s Tail, or Sedum morganianum, is an instant joy bringer! This succulent sports long reaching tentacles studded with plump green beans. Native to southern Mexico, burro’s tails are easy peasy and absolutely adorable. Put yours in a south facing window to bathe it in sunlight and maybe get lucky enough to see its terminal pink
If you’ve yet to experience the Goldfish Plant, or Nematanthis gregarius, you are missing out! Its most striking feature is its bright orange flowers that are shaped like little fish. This is where it gets its fun name! Its leaves too, are attractive glossy and dark green. Make sure you give it bright light (not
Calatheas are known for their big paddle leaves with bold patterns. There are approximately 60 varieties of calatheas, each one just as mesmerizing as the last. They are praised for being tolerant of low light conditions, making them excellent choices for offices and houses without a lot of natural light. A popular variety is the rattlesnake
Areca Palm, or Dypsis lutescens is sometimes called a butterfly palm in the waythat their fronds curve upward like the wings of a butterfly. Native to the moist forests of Madagascar, this palm craves humidity and well draining soil. A chunky mix with perlite and orchid bark will do the trick. Bright indirect sunlight will
Typically when you see an air plant on a shelf for the first time you think to yourself, is that real? Yes, it is! They are epiphites which are found in nature growing off of tree trunks, branches or even small cracks in rocks. As houseplants however, you can simply set them on a shelf
If you’re searching for a houseplant that has the look of a bonsai but does not require the tedious trimming and attention to detail, consider a plant in the Aralia family. Aralias are a genus of plant found in high altitude forests of Asia and the Americas with distinct woody branches and feathery foliage. The
There are few plants as impressive as fatsia japonica, or Japanese aralia. Upon first glance, they are truly striking. Their enormous saw-tooth leaves with bold, bright green veins stretch outward with confidence, as though beckoning you to come closer. Native to southern Japan, the fatsia is known as “yatsude”, meaning “eight fingers”, referring to the
Whether you want to warm your sweetie’s heart or just need to give yourself a little more love this Valentine’s Day, the heartleaf philodendron, or philodendron cordatum, will do the trick. It embodies all the qualities we want in a good partner. It’s forgiving, tolerant and absolutely gorgeous. Though it doesn’t help very much with
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