Tropical Plants - Exotic Foliage and Colorful Blooms

Tropical plants create a unique display of vibrantly colored flowers and leafy green foliage, indoors and out.

As you plan your exotic oasis, choose plants based on the location you choose for their home.

When choosing houseplants, consider care requirements such as lighting, humidity, and temperature. Landscape and garden plants should be chosen based on their care requirements as well.

Tropical Indoor Plants

If you’re yearning for a touch of the tropics indoors, consider incorporating tropical house plants into your interior décor. Let’s contemplate the possibilities...

Exotic Flowering Plants – a dramatic arrangement of tropical blooms, including Bird of Paradise, Protea, Ginger and leafy foliage taking center stage on your mantle or coffee table.

Tropical Centerpieces – featuring Anthuriums, Dendrobium, Orchids, and Ginger gracing the dining room table for your tropical themed dinner party.

A Lush Container Garden – create a dazzling tropical container garden by combining colorful flowers with unique foliage planted in a distinctive container.

A Colorful Hanging Basket – filled with Bougainvillea or Hibiscus flowers, easy to move for versatility.

An Element of Your Interior Design Theme – with their brilliant green foliage, and boldly colored blooms, tropical plants can be the inspiration for your interior decorating theme. Tropicals are the perfect accent or focal point for any room.      

Outdoor Tropicals Anywhere

Live in a harsher climate? You have more options that you realize! Tropical landscapes and gardens can be created and maintained by utilizing a variety of techniques.

The biggest misconception about tropicals is that you have to live in a tropical or subtropical location to create and maintain an exotic looking garden or landscape. You’ll be amazed to discover that...

•  Exotic plants can be overwintered inside as houseplants, and brought outside to thrive during the warmer months as part of your garden or landscape. Keep them planted in attractive containers that can be moved with ease.

• Tropical plants can thrive in many climates with proper planning, planting and care.

• An old shed can be turned into a greenhouse, or you can build one from scratch. Storing your plants in a separate, climate friendly building will give you extra space for experimenting with seeds and cuttings, or repotting plants when necessary.

• Adding hardier tropical look-a-likes to your garden or landscape will accomplish the exotic look and feel you desire, while reducing the amount of time you spend on care and maintenance of true tropicals and subtropicals.
  

Exotic Plants for Your Home, Garden, and Landscape

Tropical foliage plants can be just as dramatic and interesting as colorful tropical flowers. They provide varying textures, colors, sizes, and forms throughout changing seasons.

Large leafy Plants that are dramatic in size, shape, or form make a wonderful focal point for your garden, landscape, or room.

Small-leafed and colorful tropicals provide texture and contrast, as well as compliment larger, leafy varieties.

Aechmea Fasciata - Long Lasting Color

Aloe Vera Plant – Easy to Grow Succulent

Ananas Comosus - Ivory Pineapple Plant

Angel Wing Begonia - Elegant Flowers, Spotted Foliage

Anthurium Plant – Vibrant Tropical Grace

Billbergia Nutans - Easy to Grow Friendship Plant

Bird of Paradise Plant – Exotic Elegance

Boston Fern – Arching Tropical Elegance

Cryptanthus Acaulis - Starfish Bromeliad Plant

Cyclamen Persicum - Delicate Upswept Petals

Elephant Ear Plant – Bold Tropical Foliage

Ginger Plants - Red Cone-Shaped Blooms

Guzmania Lingulata - Scarlet Star Bromeliad

Neoregelia Carolinae - Blushing Bromeliad

Poinsettia Plant – Traditional Christmas Flower

Reiger Begonia - Winter-Blooming Hybrid

Rex Begonias - Breathtaking Leaves, Dramatic Colors

Shrimp Plant -  Colorful Evergreen Shrub

Spider Plant – Exotic Cascading Foliage

Tillandsia Plants - Pink Quill Bromeliads

Vriesea Splendens - Flaming Sword Bromeliad

Wax Begonia - Colorful Flowering Perennial

Zebra Plant - Exotic Striped Foliage

Additional Information Related to Tropical Plants

Houseplant Care – Preserve Their Exotic Beauty

Watering Plants – Tips and Techniques

Plant Containers – Choosing the Right Planter

Growing Ginger - Tips for Ginger Plant Care

Begonia Care - Solutions to Common Problems