In recent years, consumer interest in tropical, foliage, and houseplants has steadily grown. Houseplants and tropical plants are very different types of plants, but homeowners following the houseplant trend don’t always know the difference between shade-tolerating or filtered-light tolerant houseplants such as African Violets or Peperomia and tropical variety houseplants which tend to prefer high light. We conducted this trial to evaluate which tropical, foliage, and houseplant varieties can tolerate growing in full sun. What we learned: There are many tradescantia varieties, and these are often considered indoor foliage plants. After growing out multiple varieties of these, we learned that some performed very well in our full sun trial and would work well mixed in with annuals in combination planters, such as Nanouk, Purple Bridal Veil, and Sillamontana. These varieties all feature different leaf shapes, sizes, color, and even texture that we are looking forward to mixing in some 2025 combos. 1. FEATURE TRIAL: FOLIAGE IN FULL SUN
Tradescantia Sillamontana
Tradescantia Nanouk
Tradescantia Purple Bridal Veil
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Pothos, typically used indoors but also considered a tropical plant, also performed well. When plant moves from the indoors or even from in a greenhouse to outside in full sun, it will need to acclimate and may experience some foliar burning, but once that acclimatization occurs, then the plant will grow new leaves that are fully sun tolerant. We liked both the variety Golden and Jade in our trials. 2.
Pothos Golden
Pothos Jade
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