Some plants make a room look finished the moment they arrive. The umbrella tree is one of them. Its glossy leaflets fan out like the spokes of an open umbrella, and within a season or two a small nursery plant…
Some plants sit politely in a corner. A cat palm does not. Its fountain of glossy, arching fronds turns an ordinary room into something that feels like a jungle clearing after rain. When I brought my first one home, it…
The bamboo plant is one of the few living things that grows fast enough to watch. Some species stretch up to 91 cm (about 3 feet) in a single day, making bamboo the fastest growing plant on earth. People have…