Weird + Wonderful Plants

A weird little succulent that looks like…well…baby toes!

Scientific Name: Fenestraria rhopalophylla

Common Name: Baby Toes

Growth: 2-3 inches tall

Watering: Let dry between watering 

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Intermediate 

Light: Bright, indirect light

A fun plant with leaves that look like it’s been splashed with paint. Comes in a variety of colours!  The Polka Dot plant originates from the island of Madagascar.  It is also found in South Africa and Southeast Asia. The beautiful polka dots on its leaves symbolize creativity and it is believed to bring positive energy and enhance the ambiance of any room.

Scientific Name: Hypoestes Phyllostachya

Common Name: Polka Dot Plant

Light: Bright indirect light

Growth: Can grow up to 12 inches tall

Watering: Keep evenly hydrated, likes to be misted

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Intermediate 

The Venus Fly trap is a unique carnivorous plant.  It looks like a creature from an alien movie but don't let this plant scare you, it only munches on insects!  With its leaves ending in little claw like hands, this plant closes the instant an insect lands on it.

The Venus Fly Trap originates from coastal bogs of North and South Carolina.  They have adapted to low nutrient environments by using the insects they eat to give them the nutrients they need. As long as you keep up with the watering, let them take care of catching the flies!  

Scientific Name: Dionaea muscipula

Common Name: Venus Fly Trap

Light Requirements: Bright indirect light, direct sun

Water: They are from Bogs so they like to have wet soil.  Make sure the air flow is good.  Be sure to take them out of their packaging as soon as you get it home.

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Intermediate

A member of the nettle family, this plant is known for its moss-like dense foliage. It drapes nicely in a hanging pot! Baby tears originated in the Mediterranean Region. It's a creeping, mat-forming, evergreen perennial that thrives in damp, shaded area.  It is known to have calming effects on some plant lovers due to the texture and softness of the foliage.

Scientific Name: Soleirolia Soleirolii

Common Name:  Angel Tears/Baby Tears.

Light: Bright indirect light

Growth: it can spread 3-6 feet

Watering: Keep well watered, don’t let dry

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Intermediate -  they like high humidity

It's the Shrimp Plant!  This quirky plant has beautifully interesting flowers that resemble shrimps!  Native to Mexico, it is a tropical evergreen shrub that has made an interesting house plant.  With its constant flowering, you can enjoy the flowers all year round.

Scientific Name: Justicia Brandegeeana

Common Name: Shrimp Plant or False Hop

Light: Part shade or indirect light

Watering: Keep soil consistently wet but not soggy.

Growth:  Can grow to 4 feet tall

Pet Safe: Yes, but consuming large amounts can cause your pet to get sick.

Care: Easy

Glossy, heart-shaped leaves look like raindrops! A great low maintenance plant to brighten your room. Its flowers are called inflorescences + resemble mouse tails! Native to the tropical areas of South America - in Brazil, its given as a gift of good fortune, meaning "Everything will be alright"

Scientific Name: Peperomia polybotrya

Common Name: Raindrop, Coin Plant, Coin-Leaf Peperomia

Light: Bright, indirect light 

Growth: Can reach 12" in a compact, clumping form

Watering: Let top 2"-3" dry out between waterings 

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Easy

MA jade plant variety with stripes of green, white, and pink!

These star-shaped flowers have pink overtones appear in showy clusters at the ends of the branches. This Jade plant is native to South Africa.  Also known as "Cassula Ovata", this Jade plant grows on dry, rocky hillsides. 

Scientific Name: Cassula Ovata

Common Name: Jade

Growth: 2-4 Feet indoors

Light: Bright indirect light to full sun

Watering: Let dry out between waterings

Pet Safe: No

Care: Easy

Delicate but hardy. Bring the forest inside with this adorable Button Fern.  Originating from Australia and New Zealand, this little gu

typically grows in moist, open forests, rocky crevices, and on limestone cliffs.

Scientific Name: Pellaea Rotundifolia

Common Name: Button Fern

Light: Bright indirect light

Watering: They need a very deep watering followed by letting them dry out.

Growth: Can grow up to 12 inches

Pet Safe: yes

Care: Easy

Delicate but hardy. Bring the forest inside with this adorable Blue Star fern. A popular beginner friendly plant known for its attractive blue green leaves.  It originates from tropical and sub-tropical regions of the Americas.

Scientific Name: Phlebodium Aureum

Common Name: Blue Star Fern

Light: Bright indirect light

Growth: 2-3 feet indoors over several years

Watering: They need a very deep watering followed by letting them dry out.

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Easy

This easy care, non-toxic beauty has the best party trick: Its dark green leaves are a deep wine red underneath! Delight in flipping it upside down for a visual shock.

An eye-catching plant with thick, weighty stems that will eventually trail. Looks beautiful in a contrasting white planter.

Scientific Name: Peperomia verticilla

Common Name: Whorled Peperomia, Red Log, Belly Button

Size: 12" indoors

Growth: Trailing stems start upright, then spill over

Watering: Loves humidity + evenly hydrated soil

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Bright, indirect light. Prune stems to keep bushy

Rare pink variegated leaves make this philodendron variety a prize to be proud of!  Originating from Columbia, this plant, in the early 2000's, was a rare and expensive plant often traded in small circles.

Scientific Name: Philodendron erubescens 'pink princess' 

Common Name: Philodendron pink princess, blushing philodendron 

Light: Direct-bright, indirect light

Growth: 3-4 ft tall, 1-2 ft wide

Watering: Let the top several inches dry between waterings; ensure proper drainage with airy, well-draining soil

Pet Safe: No

Care: Easy

Originating from the rainforests of Brazil, in its native habitat, it thrives in the warm, humid, and shaded conditions found on the rainforest floor, growing under the canopy of taller vegetation.  With its stunning spotted leaves with beautiful dark and light green colours, this is sure to be a plant that everyone admires in your home.

Scientific Name: Goeppertia insignis

Common Name: Rattlesnake Calathea

Light: Bright,indirect light

Growth: Can spread 2-3 feet

Watering: When the soil in the pot is dry halfway down

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Difficult

This show-stopping plant has giant, velvet leaves reminiscent of sea turtle shells - the silver veining streaks across the top + sparkles in the sunlight. The heart-shaped foliage is lush + eye-catching, making it a sought-after collector's plant. Would thrive in a bright bathroom!

Scientific Name: Anthurium crystallinum 'Turtle'

Common Name: Turtle Leaf Anthurium

Light: Medium-bright indirect 

Growth: 1-1.5 ft tall - the leaves can grow 6-10" long

Watering: Likes a humid environment - keep evenly hydrated + mist regularly

Pet Safe: No

Care: Intermediate

A peperomia variety that has fun textured leaves of red, orange and gold

Light: Bright indirect light

Watering: When top soil is dry, ensure good drainage

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Intermediate 

This succulent is very reminiscent of a certain green fellow wouldn’t you say?

It originated in cultivation, not from a specific natural habitat, though its parent plant, Crassula ovata. The most distinguishing feature is the unique, leaves with a slight inward curve, resembling suction cups or fingers!

Scientific Name: Crassula ovata

Common Name: Gollum, Shrek Ears

Growth: Up to 3 ft (30 cm to 91 cm) tall, and up to 2 ft (30 cm to 60 cm) wide

Light: Bright indirect light to full sun

Watering: Let dry out between waterings

Pet Safe: No

Care: Easy

A carnivorous plant with deep maroon pitchers.  Native to Southeast Asia, this plant is so unique in the fact that they use they're pitcher leaves to catch their food.  These pitchers lure, trap, and digest insects to supplement their nutrient intake in nutrient-poor soil.  Since they are from a tropical climate, they do thrive with lots of moisture and humidity.

Scientific Name: Nepenthes

Common Name: Asian Pitcher Plant

Light: Bright indirect light

Watering: Keep evenly hydrated, likes being misted.

Growth: Slow growing, can take 5-10 years to mature.

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Intermediate 

Rare snowy white variegated leaves make this philodendron variety a prize to be proud of!  Originating from Columbia, this plant, in the early 2000's, was a rare and expensive plant often traded in small circles

Scientific Name: Philodendron erubescens 'White Wizard’

Common Name: Philodendron White Wizard

Light: Direct-bright, indirect light

Growth: 3-4 ft tall, 1-2 ft wide

Watering: Let the top several inches dry between waterings; ensure proper drainage with airy, well-draining soil

Pet Safe: No

Care: Easy

The most exciting part of owning a Prince of Orange Philodendron is watching the leaves change colour as they grow! New leaves emerge bright orange color, transitioning through shades of copper and yellow before settling into a neon green. It's a self-heading (non-vining) plant growing on a thick stalk that eventually requires a pole (moss/coconut coir) or trellis for support.

Scientific Name: Philodendron erubescens 'Prince of Orange'

Common Name: Prince of Orange, Orange Prince

Light: Bright, indirect, but can tolerate medium light

Growth: 1 ft - 2 ft tall, 2 ft - 3 ft wide

Watering: Let top 1" - 2" dry between waterings; ensure proper drainage

Pet Safe: No

Care: Easy

A fun variety of Begonia with exciting spotted leaves! This type of begonia is one of the easiest begonias to grow. It originates from the rain forests of Brazil.  With their spotted leaves in the shape of an angel wing, this is a stand out plant that will get your guests talking.  When in a place where it thrives, this plant produces beautiful flowers.

Scientific Name: Begonia Coccinea

Common Name:  Angel Wing Begonia

Light: Bright indirect light 

Growth: 4-6 feet tall

Watering: Keep evenly hydrated, bottom water ONLY

Pet Safe: No

Care: Moderate 

The Haworthia Cooperi grows in clumps of small rosettes of tiny, fleshy, light green leaves. One of the interesting features about this plant is that the leaves have transparent streaks around their tips.  Originating from the arid regions of South Africa.  It grows in the wild, often in the shade of rocks and other vegetation to protect its delicate, translucent leaves from the intense sun.

Scientific Name: Haworthia Cooperi

Common Name: Haworthia Cooperi

Lighting: 4-5 hours of bright indirect light in the morning sunlight per day

Watering: When the soil is completely dry, give it a good soak

Growth: 2-4 inches

Pet Safe: Yes

Care: Easy