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Million Hearts

Dischidia ruscifolia

Dischidia ruscifolia, commonly known as Million Hearts, is a trailing or climbing succulent with slender, wiry stems and small, fleshy, heart-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs. The leaves are bright green with a subtle underside texture, and occasionally tiny white or creamy flowers appear in summer. This plant forms dense cascading mats, making it an excellent choice for hanging baskets or as a ground cover in tropical terrariums. Its compact size and charming foliage provide year-round ornamental interest.

rat's tail cactus

rat's tail cactus

Disocactus flagelliformis

A cactus with slender, pendent or trailing cylindrical stems and funnel-shaped, bright red-purple flowers to 8cm in length from late spring

dragon tree

Dracaena draco

A slow-growing evergreen tree becoming sparsely branched, with terminal rosettes of sword-shaped leaves to 60cm in length and, on mature plants only, panicles of greenish-white flowers in summer followed by orange-red fruits

Hawaiian Sunshine Dracaena

Hawaiian Sunshine Dracaena

Dracaena fragrans Hawaiian Sunshine

Dracaena fragrans 'Hawaiian Sunshine' is an evergreen, cane-forming tropical shrub with a neat, upright habit. Its lance-shaped, arching leaves are striped with dark green and bright lime-green or golden-green, giving a glowing effect in low light. Mature plants may occasionally produce small, creamy-white, highly fragrant flower clusters, although flowering is rare indoors. This architectural foliage plant is widely grown for its bold, colourful leaves and ease of cultivation as a houseplant.

Snake Plant 'Golden Hahnii'

Snake Plant 'Golden Hahnii'

Dracaena trifasciata 'Golden Hahnii'

Dracaena trifasciata 'Golden Hahnii' is a compact, rosette-forming succulent with short, wide leaves that are dark green with bright yellow margins. It typically grows to about 15-30 cm tall. The leaves are stiff and pointed, often with lighter green banding. This variety is prized for its low maintenance and architectural form, making it an ideal houseplant.

Snake Plant 'Hahnii'

Snake Plant 'Hahnii'

Dracaena trifasciata 'Hahnii'

Dracaena trifasciata 'Hahnii' is a compact, rosette-forming succulent perennial with short, broad, dark green leaves adorned with horizontal bands of lighter green. It typically reaches 20-30 cm in height and spread. This dwarf snake plant is highly adaptable and thrives in low light conditions, making it an ideal houseplant. Its architectural form and ease of care make it popular for modern interiors.

Moonshine Snake Plant

Moonshine Snake Plant

Dracaena trifasciata Moonshine

Dracaena trifasciata 'Moonshine' is an evergreen succulent forming a dense clump of upright, sword-shaped leaves. The leaves are silvery grey-green with a narrow, darker green margin, creating a bright moonlit appearance. It is a compact, slow-growing snake plant that rarely flowers indoors, though mature plants may produce fragrant greenish-white flowers on spikes. It is grown mainly for its architectural foliage and tolerance of neglect.

Burmann's Sundew

Burmann's Sundew

Drosera burmannii

Drosera burmannii is a small, rosette-forming carnivorous plant. It produces tiny, spoon-shaped leaves covered in sticky glandular hairs that trap insects. The leaves are green to reddish, depending on light intensity. In spring and summer, slender stalks rise above the rosette bearing small white to pale pink flowers. Its compact size and glistening dew-like droplets make it a fascinating specimen for indoor cultivation.

evergreen wood fern

evergreen wood fern

Dryopteris marginalis

A clump-forming, evergreen fern with upright to arching, broadly ovate to triangular, grey-green fronds with deeply lobed, lance-shaped leaflets or pinnae.

Echeveria

Echeveria

Echeveria are evergreen succulents forming compact rosettes of thick, fleshy leaves. Leaves may be glaucous, blue-green, purple, pink or variegated, often covered with a powdery bloom. Mature rosettes produce arching or upright racemes of small bell-shaped flowers in shades of pink, red, orange or yellow. They are slow-growing, low-maintenance plants valued for their architectural symmetry and year-round interest.

Echeveria

Echeveria gibbiflora

Echeveria gibbiflora is a robust succulent that forms a broad, open rosette of fleshy, spoon-shaped, glaucous grey-green leaves. In bright light or cool temperatures the leaf margins and tips develop pink to reddish tones. Slender, branching stalks carry clusters of bell-shaped, pinkish-red flowers, usually from late autumn to winter. Its sculptural rosette and low water requirements make it a striking plant for containers, windowsills and protected greenhouse displays.

Echeveria

Echeveria perle von nurnberg

Echeveria 'Perle von Nürnberg' is a rosette-forming succulent with fleshy, spoon-shaped leaves in a powdery grey-purple to pinkish-lilac tone. The leaves are arranged in a tight, symmetrical rosette that can develop a short stem with age. In late spring and summer, it produces arching stems bearing bell-shaped, coral-pink flowers with yellow interiors. It is prized for its colourful, sculptural foliage and is well suited to containers and sunny indoor displays.

silver spoons

Echeveria runyonii

An evergreen succulent forming a stemless rosette to 12cm across, composed of fleshy, silvery-grey leaves. In summer, it produces orange flowers held on arching stems above the foloiage

golden barrel cactus

golden barrel cactus

Echinocactus grusonii

A barrel-shaped stem to 50cm in height, with deep ribs bearing yellowish spines and, on mature plants, yellow flowers to 6cm in length

rainbow cactus

Echinocereus rigidissimus

A solitary, evergreen cactus with radial spines curved slightly toward the stem. New spines are reddish-pink, fading to yellow or light pink when mature. Bright pink flowers with a white throat appear in Spring, borne atop the plant from younger aeroles

Siberian ginseng

Siberian ginseng

Eleutherococcus senticosus

Eleutherococcus senticosus is a deciduous shrub growing 1–2 metres tall, with spiny, erect stems and distinctive palmate leaves composed of five leaflets. In early summer it produces small, inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers clustered in umbels, followed by black berry-like fruits. The plant’s value lies in its medicinal root and resilience, forming a bushy, upright habit that suits naturalistic or woodland garden settings.

N'Joy Pothos

Epipremnum aureum 'N'Joy'

Epipremnum aureum 'N'Joy' is a variegated cultivar of the classic Devil's Ivy, with heart-shaped leaves splashed in creamy white and green. Each leaf exhibits a unique pattern of white patches or margins, creating a striking contrast. This vigorous climber or trailer can reach up to 1.5 metres indoors, making it ideal for hanging baskets or training up a moss pole. Its compact growth habit and bright variegation are the main ornamental features, adding a fresh, modern look to interior spaces.

Manjula Pothos

Epipremnum aureum Manjula

Manjula is a compact, evergreen cultivar of Epipremnum aureum, renowned for its broad, heart-shaped leaves with striking cream, silver-green and white variegation. The leaf edges are often gently ruffled, giving the plant a more ornate appearance than the common Golden Pothos. Under indoor cultivation it forms a moderately vigorous climber or trailing plant, with stems that root readily at the nodes. It is widely grown as a low-maintenance houseplant for year-round foliage effect, but rarely flowers outside the tropics.

Mexican fleabane

Mexican fleabane

Erigeron karvinskianus

A perennial forming wide mats to 15cm in height, with narrow, hairy leaves and daisy-type flower-heads 15mm in width, opening white but soon turning pinkish-purple

California poppy

California poppy

Eschscholzia californica

A vigorous bushy, spreading annual to 30cm, with finely divided blue-green leaves and orange, yellow or red flowers to 7cm across in summer

Japanese spindle 'Aureomarginatus'

Japanese spindle 'Aureomarginatus'

Euonymus japonicus 'Aureomarginatus'

A small, upright shrub with dark green foliage and yellow margins

Decary's spurge

Decary's spurge

Euphorbia decaryi

Euphorbia decaryi is a dwarf, clump-forming succulent with fleshy, obovate leaves arranged in spirals at the tips of short stems. The leaves have deeply undulating margins and are olive-green to bronze, with darker veins and often purple undersides. In spring, small, cup-shaped greenish-yellow cyathia are borne among the upper leaves. The plant is valued for its unusual textured foliage and neat, low-growing habit, making it an excellent choice for containers or bright indoor positions.

Euphorbia flanaganii

Euphorbia flanaganii

Euphorbia flanaganii

A tender, succulent perennial which produces a partially underground swollen stem or caudex, with snake-like green cylindrical stems that emerge radially from its centre to approximately 20cm (8in) in length. Narrow, lance-shaped leaves are produced at the tips of the stems as they grow and are approximately 1cm (½in) long, but are soon shed leaving the older parts of the stems bare. Short-stemmed, yellow-green floral bracts, reddish in bud, are produced along short-stems from the centre of the caudex in summer. New plantlets are produced at the tips of older stems and drop to the ground when developed sufficiently to sustain themselves and form new plants

gingham golf ball

gingham golf ball

Euphorbia obesa

A cactus-like succulent to 15cm, with a squat globose or pear-shaped, grey-green stem with 5 ribs, with a pattern of dull reddish bands, and terminal clusters of small yellow flowers in summer