Foliage Plants
Lush, leafy greenery for every corner of your home.
Focus on the leaves. These plants are grown for their diverse textures, shapes, and shades of green, perfect for creating a lush, calming indoor oasis.
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Aglaonema ‘Snow White’, often sold as Chinese Evergreen Snow White, is the kind of plant...
Read Full Guide →Aglaonema commutatum, better known as Chinese evergreen, is the houseplant equivalent of a reliable compact...
Read Full Guide →Asparagus plumosus, often sold under the charmingly misleading name Plumosa Fern, is a cloud of...
Read Full Guide →Asparagus setaceus is one of those plants that shows up looking delicate, feathery, and politely...
Read Full Guide →The Asplenium nidus ‘Crispy Wave’ fern is what happens when a bird’s nest fern decides...
Read Full Guide →Begonia amphioxus is a cane-type begonia that looks like someone took a fine paintbrush, dipped...
Read Full Guide →Begonia erythrophylla, better known as Beefsteak Begonia, is one of those plants that looks dramatic...
Read Full Guide →Begonia lucerna is one of those plants that looks far more dramatic than it behaves,...
Read Full Guide →Begonia maculata, commonly sold as the Polka Dot Begonia, is one of those plants that...
Read Full Guide →Begonia pavonina is one of those plants that looks like it escaped from a science...
Read Full Guide →Begonia rex ‘Escargot’ is a rhizomatous foliage begonia grown almost entirely for its leaves, which...
Read Full Guide →Caladium bicolor, usually sold under the more theatrical name Fancy Leaf Caladium, is a foliage...
Read Full Guide →Caladium praetermissum ‘Hilo Beauty’ is what happens when a tropical forest understory plant decides to...
Read Full Guide →Calathea burle-marxii, commonly sold as the Fishbone Prayer Plant, is one of those tropical houseplants...
Read Full Guide →Calathea lancifolia, often sold as the Rattlesnake Plant, is one of those houseplants that looks...
Read Full Guide →Calathea lietzei ‘White Fusion’ is a rhizomatous tropical perennial that looks like it was hand-painted...
Read Full Guide →Calathea majestica ‘White Star’ is a rhizomatous member of the Marantaceae family that earns its...
Read Full Guide →Calathea makoyana, usually sold as the Peacock Plant, is the sort of houseplant that looks...
Read Full Guide →Calathea ornata ‘Pinstripe’ is one of those plants that looks expensive even when it isn’t,...
Read Full Guide →Calathea veitchiana ‘Medallion’ is one of those plants that looks expensive even when it’s sitting...
Read Full Guide →Chlorophytum comosum ‘Hawaii’, commonly sold as the variegated golden spider plant, is the sort of...
Read Full Guide →Chlorophytum comosum, better known as the spider plant, is one of those houseplants that shows...
Read Full Guide →Croton Mammy is the houseplant equivalent of a loud shirt that somehow works because it...
Read Full Guide →Ctenanthe lubbersiana ‘Bamburanta’, often sold under the clingy nickname Never Never Plant, is one of...
Read Full Guide →Fittonia argyroneura is a creeping tropical understory plant that behaves like it has opinions about...
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Read Full Guide →Goeppertia kegeljanii, still sold everywhere under the old and stubbornly persistent name Calathea musaica, is...
Read Full Guide →Goeppertia roseopicta, still sold everywhere under its old Calathea name because plant labels age slowly,...
Read Full Guide →Gynura aurantiaca, sold under names like Purple Passion and Velvet Plant, is what happens when...
Read Full Guide →Hemigraphis alternata, usually sold as the purple waffle plant, is a creeping foliage plant that...
Read Full Guide →Iresine herbstii, usually sold as Bloodleaf, is the kind of plant that looks aggressively decorative...
Read Full Guide →Kaempferia pulchra, commonly sold as variegated peacock ginger, is a low-growing, rhizomatous relative of culinary...
Read Full Guide →Mandevilla sanderi is a tropical evergreen vine grown for one job and one job only...
Read Full Guide →Maranta leuconeura, commonly called the Prayer Plant, is a low-growing tropical houseplant that behaves like...
Read Full Guide →Nephrolepis biserrata ‘Macho’ is not a polite little tabletop fern that whispers greenery into a...
Read Full Guide →Phlebodium aureum, sold almost everywhere as the Blue Star Fern, is the houseplant equivalent of...
Read Full Guide →Pilea mollis ‘Moon Valley’ is the kind of indoor plant that looks far more high-maintenance...
Read Full Guide →Pilea peperomioides, commonly sold as the Chinese Money Plant, is one of those houseplants that...
Read Full Guide →Platycerium bifurcatum is the plant that convinces people they accidentally bought wall art instead of...
Read Full Guide →Sansevieria bacularis ‘Mikado’, often sold as the Mikado snake plant or spear sansevieria, is an...
Read Full Guide →Sansevieria trifasciata has built an entire reputation on staying upright while everything else in the...
Read Full Guide →Spathiphyllum wallisii, commonly sold as the Peace Lily, is the houseplant equivalent of someone who...
Read Full Guide →Stromanthe sanguinea ‘Triostar’ is the houseplant equivalent of a watercolor painting that refuses to sit...
Read Full Guide →Syngonium chiapense is the arrowhead vine for people who want something lush and architectural without...
Read Full Guide →Syngonium podophyllum ‘Neon Robusta’ is one of those plants that looks suspiciously fake the first...
Read Full Guide →Tradescantia spathacea, often sold under the biblical-sounding name Moses in the Cradle or the seafood-adjacent...
Read Full Guide →The Black ZZ Plant, formally named Zamioculcas zamiifolia ‘Raven’, is the rare houseplant that looks...
Read Full Guide →Zamioculcas zamiifolia ‘Raven’, usually called the Raven ZZ plant, looks like black lacquered plastic pretending...
Read Full Guide →Zamioculcas zamiifolia, better known as the ZZ plant, has become the default answer to the...
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