For leafy and non-flowering houseplants, I like Caladium, particularly those miniature ones.
Caladium leaves can be shaped like hearts, arrows, or lances. These tropical plants grow from tubers, most known for their colourful foliage, such as red, pink, rose, white, chartreuse, and green. The brilliant foliage of this classic plant is often translucent, which makes them light up your garden.
You can either plant them in pot, on the ground (normally used as bedding plant) or simple grow it from water in vase or pot, depending how you want them to grow. If you want them to grow into big bushes, plant them on ground or big pot, they can really grow! I like to keep them in smaller pots to decorate table tops or shelves.
Tips: Based on my observation, those expose to sun directly will have more green; those have little access to sunlight will have more whitish to yellowish leaf-patterning. The best is to have moderate sunlight so the leaf pattern is distinctive.
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| I planted this on ground below some taller plants |
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| Arrowhead plants on the ground as bedding plants |
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| New plant cultivated in biodegradable pot |
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| I like the pinkish leaf patterning |
Those caladiums that I've seen in Malaysia are limited in colours. Below are the various types of caladium I like. I have never seen them in real life. May be these are more suitable for colder climate. I adore the light and bright and translucent colour, which looks like butterfly wings to me. Pretty!!!
P/s: The more I google about caladium, the more I'm confused about these two. Caladium or arrowhead? Can somebody teach me the easiest way to differentiate these two?
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