Rare and Unique House Plants
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Brighten up your home with these Rare and Unique Houseplants!
Exotic House Plants
These unique houseplants are sure to wow your guests
Rare Black Haunting Bat Plant - Tacca - Exotic Houseplant!
I love this plant, it makes such a statement. It would be a wonderful addition to a foyer or entryway to greet your guests.
Hawaiian Pink Quill Plant - Exotic & Easy - Tillandsia
The bright, almost fluorescent blue and fuchsia of this plant is sure to catch the eye. Plus it has very linear foliage, giving it a bit of an architectural feel.
Braided Snake Plant
A great easy to grow plant, it grows straight up with hardy stalks that braid together, resembling snakes curling around each other.
Madagascar Palm
This somewhat wild looking palm has long glossy green leaves, accented by spikes and white flowers with yellow centers.
Gardening Spirit
Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit - I look upon myself as an indoor gardener. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe
Fragrant Houseplants
These beautiful plants will add a lovely perfume to the air.
Jasmine Maid of Orleans Plant
The most fragrant Jasmine you will find, the delicate white flowers bloom daily and fall of within 24 hrs. The flower likes it warm so is grows well as a houseplant in colder areas. It wil flourish on a windowsill in full sun.
Fragrant White Miniature Cyclamen Plant-Winter Blooming
This Miniature Cyclamen has delicate white flowers which point toward the ground in a unique display.
Fragrant Pink Miniature Cyclamen Plant -Winter Blooming
Cyclamen are a genus of plants containing 20 species, which are part of the Primrose family. In the wild, their distribution is centered on the Mediterranean, being natives of parts of Europe, Western Asia and parts of North Africa. Miniature Cyclamen bloom in the autumn, winter and spring. They prefer a very bright location or full sun with cool temperatures.
Asiatic Star Jasmine Plant
The Asiatic Star Jasmine is a beautiful evergreen vine prized for its very fragrant, star-shaped white flowers. Train it on posts, walls, or trellises, or use as a fast-growing shrubby ground cover.
Rare Creme and Green Madagascar Jasmine 4 Inches
The Madagascar jasmine also known as Bridal Wreath is the most well known of about 13 species of the genus Stephanotis. The Madagascar jasmine is widely cultivated for its lasting waxy white flowers and intense fragrance. The scent is strongly reminiscent of the true jasmine, Jasminum officinale, hence the common name.
Bonsai
Brussel's Money Tree Indoor Bonsai
Who ever said money doesn't grow on tree? This great bonsai would make a wonderful gift. It is a great stand alone plant that would look great on a desk at the office. It is said to bring good fortune.
Bonsai Boy's Sago Palm Bonsai Tree - Exotic(Cycas Revoluta)
This bonsai is a wonderful edition to a Hawaiian or tropical theme as it looks like a tiny palm tree.
Brazilian Rain Tree Bonsai
This is a wonderfully easy to grow Bonsai. As it grows the trunk becomes a rope of twisted limbs. It has great character, and wonderful foliage and it can be trained to grow in many interesting shapes.
Unique and Rare Vegetable Plants
1 Olive Tree
The Tree of Peace, an Olive tree is a wonderful patio plant that can become a houseplant over winter. The olive has a history almost as long as that of Western civilization, it's development being one of civilized man's first accomplishments.
Black Pearl Hot Pepper 10 Seeds - Ornamental/Edible - 2006 All-America Selection Winner
This dark plant has great Black Hot Peppers, the foliage is a purplish black. It makes a great addition to a plant grouping because of the rare black foliage pops against the usual green foliage of the other plants.
TRI-FETTI VERY Hot Pepper 20 Seeds - Ornamental/Edible
These very hot peppers really draw the eye with there bright purple color contrasting against bright light green foliage.
Organic Peruvian Purple Chile Pepper 50 Seeds
Another Purple Pepper, these grow pointing upright and turn red as they ripen. The plant grows to about two feet tall and the peppers are mildly spicy.
Gardening Tips and Tricks
Learn how to make your indoor garden thrive
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The Organic Garden
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Welcome to The Organic Garden, my name is Lauren, and I would like to take you on a tour through the basics of organic gardening. My goal is to extol the virtues of Organic Gardening and hopefully lead more people down the path of sustainability. If...
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Container Gardening: The Terra Cotta Garden
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The Terra Cotta Garden is all about creating beautiful containers, and thinking outside the box when gardening. Container gardening gives you the freedom to create gardens where you couldn't before. Do you live in a city where everything is cement? D...
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Higher Yields Through Hydroponics
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Hydroponics is the growing of plants without soil. It has become a useful tool in commercial food production because of higher yields produced by vegetables that are grown hydroponically. It is also a useful technique for the home gardener...
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Small Space Gardening
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I have loved gardening for a long time. When I was growing up my parents had a large yard full of flowers and bushes and trees and a vegetable and herb garden. However when I went off to college in the city my tiny apartment didn't exactly have...
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Vermiculture = Worm Composting
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Worm Composting or Vermiculture, is the use of worms in a controlled environment to break down organic material, like kitchen scraps into an highly nutritious soil amendment called castings. Worm composting is great for the environment because it less...
Fruit
LOUSBONSAINURSERY TANGERINE BONSAI TREE (FLOWERS AND FRUITS)
This Tangerine Bonsai is a great indoor plant. It flowers pretty white flowers which turn into real edible tangerines.
LOUSBONSAINURSERY LEMON/LIME COCKTAIL BONSAI TREE
This Lemon Lime Cocktail Bonsai actually fruits both lemons and limes that are edible. It produces white flowers first then fruits.
Bonsai Boy's Flowering Dwarf Pomegranate Bonsai Tree(punica granatum)
The Flowering Dwarf Pomegranate is a sub-tropical deciduous tree grown for its brilliant orange-red trumpet-like flowers followed in fall by ornamental, small, spherical-like orange-red fruits. It has dark green leaves with shades of bronze that will drop off during winter.
Floral
Strawberries and Cream Wax Plant
Strawberries & Cream Wax Plant - Hoya carnosa is one of 100 species of Hoya that are native to Eastern Asia and Australia. This easy to grow houseplant blooms in summer with clusters of attractive, star shaped, pink-white blossoms. The delicate flowers appear to be made of porcelain and are truly unique.
Bauhinia Hong Kong Orchid Tree
Bauhinia 'Blakeana' is an evergreen tree, in the genus Bauhinia, with large thick leaves and striking purplish red flowers. The fragrant, orchid-like flowers are usually 10-15 cm across, and bloom from early November to the end of March.
Golden Dragon Clivia Plant - RARE - 2 1/2" pot
Representing more than ten years of breeding and selection in Japan and the US, Clivia Golden Dragon is a superior strain of Yellow Clivia. The clear yellow flowers have no orange or red markings to darken the power of their color. This clean yellow can be seen at a distance, making them ideal to brighten dark corners, or shaded indoor planters. Flower clusters are large and long lasting.
Twelve Apostles Neomarica
The 12 Apostles Plant is native to Brazil. The flowering season is from February to August an the flowers have a delicious light fragrance. This tropical iris grows 4 to 5 feet tall and makes a great houseplant!
Foliage
Variegated Hindu Rope Hanging Basket
The Variegated Hindu Rope Plant is an exotic house plant native to the far east. The plant is easy to grow and can reach lengths of over 8 feet! The plant has thick, convoluted, green, pink, and white leaves, arranged on trailing, twisted stems. Small, white, waxy flowers have red centers and are very fragrant.
Sensitive Plant 50 Seeds - LEAVES MOVE - SALE*
The Sensitive Plant is an easy to grow house plant that snaps it's leaves shut when touched! You will not believe this plant. It acts more like an animal than a plant. Plus it has beautiful, pink, silky flowers.
Sweetheart Madagascar Palm
The Sweetheart Madagascar Palm (Dracaena marginata) is an easy to grow house plant, perfect for the home, office or college dorm. The Sweetheart Madagascar Palm in native to the island of Madagascar off of the African coast.
Live Bromeliad Nautilus Spotted Shell
These exotic plants thrive in any home and make excellent house, dormitory or office plants! Bromeliad species Epiphytic plants are among the most fascinating of all tropicals because they do not require soil to grow. Because there is no soil, watering is, in the main, via humidity. Bromeliads are a group of epiphytic plants that are native to South and Central America. These plants grow without soil in the tops of trees and on rocks in a variety of conditions. These plants absorb their moisture through tiny spongelike tentacles that cover their leaves. Bromeliads enjoy high light and good air circulation. After blooming the plant will put out new offsets (pups) from between the leaves at the base of the plant. The Live Bromeliad Nautilus Shell you are purchasing is 4" tall including the plant.
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Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers
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Rare Vegetable Plants for your Home Garden
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Rare Vegetables turn a fun hobby into a garden work of art. Gardening is such a rewarding hobby, you dig in the dirt, plant some tiny little seeds than water and nurture them into great works of nature. Then when all the hard work is done you can sit...
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Rare and Unique Flowers
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For those who love nature and gardening, nothing is more relaxing than sitting out on a warm day in your very own beautiful garden. After a hard, stressful day, sitting in your garden, enjoying the sites, sound and smells can melt the stress away. If...
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Rare and Unique Fruits for your Garden
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Once the weather begins to get cold, I start to get the itch to plan next years garden. This year I wanted to look into a few new fruit plants to add to my regular garden rotation. I won't be able to plant them all this year, but maybe someday soon I...
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