Tropical Looking Plants

Baby rubber plant or pepper face is an original playful but also elegant tropical houseplant you can grow indoors. It has very round leaves of the deepest emerald green you can find.

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They look and feel like rubber and this is why it has this nameIt grows.

Tropical looking plants. Punch up dense shade with the mottled leaves of caladiums. This African native sports blossoms that are fuzzy leathery and quite drought-tolerant. Splashed with pink white and green caladiums deliver color all summer.

Native to the tropical regions in South America these tuberous plants occupy the understory and thrive in shade. Tropical plants in zone 6 arent just a pipedream but some careful selection and site considerations are. They come in a wide variety of textures and colors from the classic evergreen Cyrtomium fortunei Zones 5-9 to the stunning silver-plated Japanese Painted Fern Zones 4.

Countries like New Zealand Australia Japan China and South America are good examples of these. Hardy ferns are ideal for shady areas of the garden. Looking like a cross between an artichoke and a thistle protea flowers are a staple in tropical flower arrangements due to their very long-lasting cut blooms.

Japanese Painted Fern is a cold-hardy plant that offers a tropical look. Create a framework using exotic varieties and fill them in with plants like Carex Astranias Miscanthus Hostas and Japanese anemone. With glossy dark green leaves and large white almost rose-like fragrant blooms this plant is absolutely stunning on a deck or patio.

One of the sweetest smelling tropical plants ever. Gardenia can be found in shrub form or tree form. Luckily there are many hardy tropical looking plants that will thrive in zone 6 and a few actual tropical denizens that will survive with some protection.

Luckily there are many tropical looking Trees Palms shrubs bamboos grasses ferns and other plants which can take cold wet conditions. Gardenias are heat lovers so place them where they will receive full sun to light shade. This tropical grower has paper-thin arrowhead-shape leaves and wiry stems.

Many of these are from places with temperate tropical transitional landmasses. Plant tropical varieties in spring so their roots have time to get established before winter. The trick to getting tropical plants to work in your garden is to mix them with British plants.

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