Tropical Plants

Live Tropical Plants for an Indoor & Outdoor Jungle

Tropical plants bring a kind of visual drama that's hard to replicate with anything else — bold leaves, architectural shapes, and a lushness that instantly signals warmth and abundance, whether you're growing them on a windowsill or in a backyard built to feel like a getaway. Our Tropical Plants collection spans tropical foliage, tropical flowering trees, and palm varieties, giving you a wide-angle view of everything in our catalog with that distinctive tropical character.

This collection works well as a starting point if you're drawn to the tropical aesthetic generally but haven't settled on a specific plant family yet. Rather than browsing palms, agave, and tropical foliage as separate categories, this gathers the full range together so you can compare textures, sizes, and growing requirements side by side.

Palms & Architectural Foliage

Palms make up a major share of this collection, ranging from indoor-friendly varieties like the Areca Palm Tree and Majesty Palm Tree, both suited to indirect light, to true landscape specimens like the Hawaiian Kentia Palm and the dramatic Ruffled Fan Palm. For a different kind of architectural presence, the Agave Americana and its variegated forms — including Agave Americana 'Variegata' and Agave Americana 'Mediopicta Alba' — bring bold, sculptural rosettes of foliage that read as distinctly tropical and desert-adjacent at once.

Tropical Flowering & Statement Trees

Beyond foliage, this collection includes flowering and statement trees with genuine tropical presence. The Black Olive Tree brings substantial size and dense, dark foliage, well suited as a true landscape anchor in warm climates. For color, the Toucan® Scarlet Canna Lily and Redemption™ Colocasia bring vivid, oversized blooms and leaves respectively — both classic plants for gardeners building a tropical-style garden bed rather than relying on palms and foliage alone.

Smaller-Scale Architectural Palms

Not every palm in this collection demands landscape-scale space. The Dwarf Palmetto Tree, Pindo Palm, Coontie Palm, and Chinese Fan Palm all bring that recognizable palm silhouette in a more manageable size, suited to smaller yards or large container plantings rather than requiring acres of warm-climate landscape to work with.

Growing Conditions

Light requirements vary significantly depending on whether a plant is suited to indoor or outdoor growing. Indoor-friendly palms like the Areca and Majesty Palm thrive in indirect light, mimicking the dappled shade of a forest understory in their native range. True outdoor specimens, including the Christmas Palm Tree, Spindle Palm Tree, and Agave Americana varieties, need full sun and a genuinely warm climate, generally zones 8 through 11, to thrive outdoors year-round. The Redemption™ Colocasia splits the difference, suited to patio growing in addition to outdoor zones 7 through 11, giving more climate flexibility than the strictly tropical landscape specimens.

Building a Tropical Look Indoors or Out

Indoors, combine an Areca Palm or Majesty Palm with broader-leafed tropical foliage for layered texture reminiscent of a rainforest floor. Outdoors in a warm enough climate, palms, agave, and flowering tropicals like the canna lily can be layered by height and bloom timing to build a garden bed that reads as a genuine tropical escape rather than a single statement plant standing alone.

A Wide-Ranging Collection for Tropical Style

Whether your tropical ambitions are limited to a single Areca Palm by a bright window or extend to a full backyard transformation with palms, agave, and flowering tropicals, this collection offers the range to build toward either. Match light and climate to the specific variety, and tropical style is well within reach regardless of where you're starting from.