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Plants that need Full or Mostly Shade to do their best. Keep in mind that these plants may be able to take more sun in cooler zones than my blistering Florida zone 9. Many of these plants also make great CONTAINER plants for growing indoors or on a porch or lanai.
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Nun's Orchid Nun's Cap Phaius tankervilliae LIVE PLANT
1 Live Plant. Don't let the word 'Orchid' scare you away from this easy to grow plant! This ground orchid flowers in the winter or early spring and each plant can have multiple flower stems, each reaching as much as 4' high! The flowers are very fragrant and last for several weeks.
$ 25.00
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'Purple Heart' / 'Purple Queen' Wandering Jew, Inch Plant -Tradescantia pallida
5 Cuttings. This Wandering Jew gets small, delicate pink flowers during most of the summer that really stand out on the purple foilage. In warmer zones, it can be used as a ground cover under your taller specimen plants. They grow best in shade or partial sun. They also make EXCELLENT house plants, especially in hanging baskets, growing very well in containers at home or the office.
$ 10.00
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Laekenensis Rainbow Wandering Jew, Inch Plant (Tradescantia fluminensis)
5 Cuttings. This is an unusual and lovely wandering jew that has leaves in many patterns of white, pink and green,with the back of the leaves a solid pink/purple, it is really stunning and so easy to grow! Perfect in hanging baskets or window boxes, this plant likes bright shade to maintain the best color.
$ 12.00
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Bolivian Jew,Turtle Vine,Itsy Bitsy Inch Vine Callisia repens, Green/Purple Leaf
Cuttings. This plant is great for keeping those potted plants from drying out as it will form a thick mat at the base of taller plants. I grow it in ALL my containers that have taller plants in them - it looks GREAT hanging down the sides of the containers and acts as a 'mulch' around the base of the plants, too. Of course, it looks great growing by itself in hanging baskets, too! Very rich and luxurious foilage!
$ 12.00
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Variegated Purple & Green Wandering Jew, Tradescantia zebrina, Un-Rooted Cuttings
5 Cuttings. Wandering Jew is one of the most wonderful ornamental plants ever created! The sparkling silvery turquoise foliage is a beautiful color rarely encountered in landscape materials.A few pieces poked into the soil amongst container plants in the greenhouse will quickly flow into a colorful winter carpet. Wonderful groundcover in warmer zones; these make lovely container plants in ANY zone!
$ 11.00
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Swedish Ivy, Plectranthus verticillatus - White Flowers - "Creeping Charlie
SHIPPING SUSPENDED. 5 Rooted Cuttings. Swedish Ivy is not an Ivy at all but actually more closely related to mint. It looks more like a succulent with thick, scalloped leaves. It's trailing habit makes them GREAT in hanging baskets and the white tube shaped flowers are attractive to hummingbirds.
$ 12.00
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Basket Plant (Callisia fragrans) Russian Holistic Medicinal Plant
2 Plants. Callisia Fragrans, or Basket Plant, is a true tropical that looks like a bromeliad, but is actually in the same family as Wandering Jews. These make great house plants in containers and hanging baskets. These plants have also been studied in Russia for their therapeutic / medicinal properties for everything from upset stomach to burns to cancer.
$ 18.00
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Purple Shamrock (Wood Sorrel) OXALIS Light Pink to White flowers 'Triangularis'
SOLD OUT. 5 Bulbs/Croms. These are SO COOL. If you like unusual plants and rich color, you will LOVE these plants! These start with the purple/red foilage which really adds a PUNCH to any container or garden spot, but it doesn't stop there! These have pastel pink to white flowers that really contrast wonderfully with the dark foilage. These are a great addition in the garden or grow in containers so you can enjoy these plants all year long!
$ 12.00
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Night-blooming Cereus, Queen of the Night, Dutchman's Pipe Cactus (Epiphyllum)
SOLD OUT. 4 Leaf Cuttings. This is the most inexpensive way to get a start of these wonderful plants, and the way my grandmother has passed this plant on to friends and neighbors for over 30 years! These Orchid Cactus plants get pure white flowers, the size of a dinner plate which open as soon as the sun goes down and stay open all night, closing in the morning.It blooms in waves during the summer months and the blooms have a wonderful, unforgetable fragrance. As the plants get older and larger, the more blooms you will have on any given night.
$ 12.00
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White Giant/Grand Spider Lily, Crinum asiaticum Seeds
6 Seeds. Use the Grand Crinum to create a tropical mood near the pool or patio. This impressive plant is easy to grow and requires little care. In addition to its beautiful form, the grand crinum is an enthusiastic non-stop producer of huge fragrant flowers.
$ 12.00
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Giant White Spider Lily, Crinum Asiaticum 5 PLANTS
5 Plants. Use the Grand Crinum to create a tropical mood near the pool or patio. Use like a sculpture to create a focal point in the garden or in an expanse of lawn. This big lily looks great with palm trees and ornamental grasses and makes a striking display when planted in a large cluster.
$ 20.00
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Variegated / Marbled Alocasia macrorhiza Elephant Ear Rare Plant, PLANT #AA
#AA: 20" TALL / EXCELLENT VARIEGATION. Photo is the EXACT PLANT you are buying. Keep in mind that plants grow and change and these plants are unpredictable in their patterns and colorings. When you receive the plant, it may or may not look exactly like the photo because of old leaves dying and new ones growing.
$ 25.00
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PineCone Ginger / Shampoo Ginger Rhizomes (Zingiber zerumbet) Awapuhi Kuahiwi
SHIPPING SUSPENDED. 3 rhizomes. These are great foliage plants for full or partial shade conditions in zones 7-11; perfect for the back of a border, as they will reach 4'-6' tall. The pinecone ginger sends up green pinecone-shaped blooms in mid to late summer (the blooms stalks are about 2' high) and these get small yellow flowers on them. The cones slowly turn to a deep red through the fall and make excellent cut flowers, lasting for weeks in a vase. (3 Rhizomes per order)
$ 20.00
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Hidden Ginger (Hidden LIly) Rhizome, (Curcuma petiolata)
SHIPPING SUSPENDED FOR SUMMER. 1 nice sized Rhizome of the Hidden Ginger plant, Curcuma Petiolata. Lovely pink and yellow flowers emerge in late spring followed closely by large tropical green leaves to 3' high. One of the easiest and most cold hardy gingers to grow.
$ 10.00
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Palm Grass (Setaria Palmifolia) Ornamental Grass, Tropical garden or houseplant
1 Nice Clump, 5-7 individual plants. Palm grass is a good choice for growing in tubs or containers (wouldn't this look great around your pool or on your patio to add a wonderful tropical feel?) and can be stored indoors for the winter. Some gardeners in cooler zones grow palm grass in the ground in summer, then dig it up and bring indoors in winter. In warmer climates, palm grass is grown in the partial shade of palm and oak trees, in the woodland garden, and makes a nice border plant along walkways and driveways.
$ 12.00
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Yellow Walking Iris, Apostle Plant (Neomarica longifolia) BLOOMING SIZE
1 Blooming Size Plant. These lovely plants, with delicate yellow iris blooms and tall leaves that grow in a fan shape, are SO EASY TO GROW it will amaze you! In tropical areas, these shade-loving plants make great substitutes for iris. Suitable for growing in containers, too!
$ 14.00
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Rick Rack,Ric Rac Orchid Cactus, AKA: Fishbone, Zig Zag Selenicereus anthonyanus
5 Unrooted Cuttings. A night bloomer but mainly grown for it's unusual leaves which are flat and seem to grow in a zig-zag pattern which is where their common names come from.These plants are EXCELLENT for beginners or even if you don’t have a green thumb - just don't over water them and plant in a well draining, cactus-type soil mix.
$ 12.00
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Silver Squill, Ledebouria ssp, Leopard Lily. Great container / house plant!
3 Bulbs. Silver Squill (Ledebouria) or Leopard Lily, as I like to call it, is a super easy to grow bulbous succulent that has green and grey-green spots along its thick leaves. These make great house or container plants which will multiply quicky to fill your container to overflowing with very little care!
$ 12.00
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