Plant Haul! Unique and Unusual Plants For a Tropical Look

feels so nice out it's like 88 but huge improvement over the last few days I'm sitting outside fresh package here from Plant Delights Nursery if you don't know if you're just here for the Plant Hall I've been building a new area over here to do a shade to part sun Garden it varies from you know under the tree to over there and right now it's mostly a blank canvas and it's an area that I want to plant up with things that are more unique I mean they might be you know ferns or h but nice varieties of ferns and hostas or just whatnot so you're going to get to see all that in this box it's not Ferns and hostas okay maybe some Fern got some cool stuff in here all from Plant Delights I have ordered from them so many times that I'm going to Breeze through the unboxing part and try and just dive right into the plants that are okay this is what I decide on for filming too because the table is currently overrun with Pottery that's being glued back together and it's the only spot that has shap the camera is not going to overheat so much and the picture won't be Overexposed yall probably don't care that much about the background when it's an unboxing video the exciting stuff is what's in the package I ordered a bunch of stuff they're all little guys which is good I'm getting long rubber bands have a lot of rubber bands in their packaging the plants usually come either wrapped in paper with um shredded paper on the inside help keep them safe so that's generally what you get with Cactus and succulents and otherwise things come in these very nice sleeves that have a holder in the back that you can just pop out you see those Corners right there push those in and then pull out these pieces right here and then your plants just slide right out see look at it's just it's sliding right out might help have this sitting down on something more stable see look at that they just come right out some of the best plant packaging that you get when you order plants online and there are the rubber bands I'm going to have so many rubber bands by the time this is done so there's the packaging that's the unboxing it' be redundant to go through every single plant and open them up so I'm going to get everything unpacked and going talk about what's what's in here got some neat stuff I suppose we'll start with the ones that are sleeping right these are dormant and not by any means the least exciting plant that I got but I there's not much to look at Fair i' start from you know more basic stuff and work our way up to the most exciting plants but there's not much to show we'll talk about them though these are amorphofalis Moralis con kjck kjck whatever you want to call it it's a voodoo Lily this is one is Hardy all the way to Zone 6A maybe 5B with a good amount of mulch these are a really cool hearty aoid I'm sure many of you are familiar with the amorphofalis titanum the giant voodoo Lily these have a similar well they're not the same plant obviously but they're the same principle right so you're going to have a 4 to 5T single leaf it's just one big stock one big greenish to purple growth has like modeled speckling on it really interesting looking foliage I got three of these because we'll look at this picture do you see that how cool does that look it's going to be years until we get to see anything like that but that's what I want I need that in my life the flowers on these they can be like I think up to 60 in 5T tall something along those lines I have everything up there on the screen so youall can read and fact check me as we're going there's a lot to memorize here for all these plants but in general it's just a very robust beautiful flower that should show up like I said hopefully in about 3 to four years it does say on there that the ones that they ship are quarter Siz tubers that are about 3 to four years from blooming but they'll still put up some foliage and it's really neat looking foliage so even when they're not in flower they still look really cool these are a great option for part sun to light shade and just like dappled light that's what they're going to be getting and I think that this is it's going to take some time and some patience but it's going to look so cool once they're up and doing their thing with those flowers and even before that I love the way it looks having a drift of the voodo lily leaves you need several of them for it to look really neat I mean just having one looks cool but if you have several it looks really cool so I got three for right now I'm probably going to order a few more at some point but you know budget there are a lot of other plants over here to show you so that's why I just started with the three but ultimately I would like maybe five to seven of them in a spot over there in that shade garden and this is where I'm starting with those the next plants I've got they're all up here got them all spread out I'm wondering let's just go to the ferns cuz I feel like people don't get excited about ferns even though you should everybody should get excited about ferns ferns are awesome but I said we work our way up so this is just it's a Korean tassel Fern po stum po boerum believe that's the name of there like I said it's up there on this screen they go 18 inches tall 5B to 9B it's an evergreen type Fern a very beautiful Fern I love the Korean tessel ferns the foliage on them is just very dramatic for a fern all the little leaflets the little pins that are in there and the Deep green you get with them the spores on the underside they're a nice Lush plant to have around and Evergreen that was the main thing so I wanted an evergreen Fern there are a few to choose from for here 6B 7A but I strugg with them because usually when I find them they're from like a big box store and they tend to melt away during the summer when it's really hot that's something I really like about Plant Delights they're in North Carolina and if they're growing well for them there which they say they are means they should grow just fine here in St LS heatwise that is so that's why I ordered it from them so of just grabbing one from a random Nursery because I generally see those coming from places like Oregon some of them come down from Canada even places further North Michigan a lot of the plants are grown up there and shipped down here and they just they don't do well when we have the heat but this is from plants that are doing well for them with the heat so that's why I got it and look at how lovely and full this is it's an absolutely beautiful Fern look at all the character they're fuzzy and they're green they've got a lot going on for them not the fastest of Growers but I would expect in about two to three years for this to be probably double to Triple the size something along those lines adds a lot of character and just gracefulness and lushness to the Garden I always like to have some ferns around but they don't always like to stick around and a lot of that has to do with where I'm getting from when I get them from plant Del lights they usually do really well for me a very nice sturdy Fern they tend to be pretty long lived once you have them established low maintenance part on to shade or really probably part shade to shade I'm guessing for the tassel Fern well part sun to shade is what it says on the website so chances are the hotter your climate the more shade you're going to want to give them or the drier your conditions okay another f look at that one this got something fun going on down there oh and part of the noise from the fan camera kept overheating so I had to turn it on thought maybe I could get away with a video without background fan but not happening I love that the beastly growing Apex on this one this is a bronze flush roil Fern osanda regales purple PR I think I don't know it's up there on the screen 3A to 10B again got this one because they're growing it well there which means it should do just fine here this is a deciduous Fern unlike the Korean Fern the tessle fern these are a very large showy Fern you'll be able to see that something considering what size path this is you probably can guess right that's going to be a really big plant they say 48 in high for this one though up to 5T 60 in under ideal conditions know nice moist well- drained organically Rich spot forms really all they need the main attractive thing about them is the purple bronze foliage really that you get with the new frons and the fertile stems the fertile frons that come up are supposed to be very very showy on these two just imagine like great big huge up to 4ot tall big old Fern frond it's going to look really neat I feel like can you even see it I can't see my screen the sun where there's shade right here but I'm sitting in the sun I think you get the point it's been up there on the screen so you get a picture of it just a very nice lush tropical looking plant that's what I love with my ferns is they just make an area feel more established and hydrated nice lush green plants o this is a nice one let's talk about this one next rodia rodia japanica and none of these look like much you just got to give them all time these are really really really cool and sturdy plants what you get with depending on the type you're growing rodia there are lots and lots and lots of different types to choose from in Japan where these are from they're a plant that are some of them are very coveted there are competitions and things where people show them and get awards for them this one right here is just your regular old just Japonica Hardy Zone 6A to 10B some of them are going to be more into the Zone 7 7B area just depends on which type you're getting I thought I'd start with the basics and work my way up with this so this one's only going to get about a foot tall light shade to shade these have a nice upright vase shape to them and in the wintertime late fall into winter I believe I could be wrong about that but they produce red flowers from around the base have a interesting red berry look to them and they should hold on to those most of the winter time so you get some nice wintertime interest because of that especially cuz they're Evergreen so this is something that I wanted because they have a really nice tropical look to them just nice big strappy green Le similar to a like an aspidistra a cast iron plant that is but I believe this will be more long lived and reliable the the Rodas are plants that once you have them established they'll be around for years they're not the fastest of Growers but they are something that people you can pass them down from generation to generation they divide very very easily and there are so many different types to choose from these are a plant that I highly recommend if you have a shade area in your garden particularly dry shade too a spot where maybe some other things won't grow I think they even said on their website that theirs are growing well under black walnut trees I think that it said that didn't it I'm pretty sure it did which means very sturdy very tough long-loved plants I wanted to make sure to get some plants put into this new area that are going to be more fuss-free because a lot of the other plants are more experimental not necessarily the ferns but even ferns can be hit or miss with our up and down you know days the 70s and days where it's 100 even during winter we can have days in the 60s and low 7s and then a week later this happened last winter it was like -12 the plants don't tend to like that especially the Evergreens that's why I started with just a regular Japonica there's no variegation on it there's nothing that's going to make it more fragile basically and they're just nice big green leaves what's not to love about that so much to enjoy about just nice shiny big green strappy leaves beautiful plant that should be one that's going to be around for a very long time okay who's next okay this next one's looking a little rough around the edges which is not normal for Plant Delights in fact I don't think I've ever gotten a plant from them before and said that I was disappointed in it I've been ordering from them since 2008 this is the first time so this is the exception not the rule these did ship out during a very very very hot week at which was my choice I chose the shipping date and I knew it was going to be hot so it's a little crispy and a little bit wobbly in the pot but that's okay because this is a vigorous grower this is agave ovop foia the ovop foia is one that has really wide kind of a steel blue color to their leaves I said that very oddly it's up on the screen you can see it and that one in their picture is not even that big these get huge about 3T tall to 5T wide a really squat just beautiful rosette on them 7A to 9B obviously they like sun it's an Agave you can probably on a part sun but just remember that the less Sun that In Agave is getting any succulent in general the better the drainage needs to be and the more protection it's going to need during the winter time the that's water you should give it overall this is not for the shade garden right this is just something that I wanted I'm going to keep it in a container the thing that has drawn me to this one isn't just the beautiful appearance I've always wanted in aop Folia in general they're just really pretty Agave but they describe it as being one that seems particularly tolerant of cold moist climates compared to many other Century plants that they've grown that is really good to know even though it says 7A at least that doesn't mean we can't give it a try going to need to grow it out for a few years and then I will treat it like I do my Windmill palms and mule palms and my other cold hardy plants that I keep containerized and they're out here for most of the year but when we have really extreme cold so say below probably 20 to 15 it will be in a container it will go inside or if there's ever going to be moisture snow ice rain even when it's going to be cold outside now just scoot it inside I'm going to be kicking myself in a few years cuz this is going to be very big and very spiky and not fun to move around but it'll be worth it they're such fun cool canave this not for the shade garden it was just I wanted it so I got it kind of plant there's another one of those over here too oh look at those furry leaves that's a nice looking Leaf this is the saxifraga saxifraga stolen it for the variety is called nzu ginger this plant might seem familiar to the house plant lovers commonly sold as the strawberry Bonia as a house plant you find these at big box stores and hanging baskets all the time this one is special you can maybe see why if you've seen those strawberry Bonas and those hanging baskets look at this you see what's different nice big leaves on this one the variety for this one is called the nezu Ginga I don't know if I'm saying that right here's the description 3A to 9B 5 in tall evergreen part sun to shade this particular variety is special because it has nice large foliage typically it goes I think 2 to 3 in it's more normal on a strawberry bonian this one they say goes up to 6 in there's a picture there with the coin sitting on top of a leaf I believe I don't know I don't have the computer in front of me but y'all are seeing it you can see what's going on there they spread wonderfully this is a very nice cold hearty ground cover and in may they have little white flowers that come up about a foot high above the foliage just a fun plant this is a beautiful ground cover isn't it I love the hairy leaves the tricomes it's going to be a good spreader in its Evergreen which is one of the reasons I got it I want a mixture of little Evergreens and big Evergreens and deciduous things and we have the voodo llies which will be dormant for a big portion of the year they don't tend to come up here until like June so there will be patches of color mi in where there plants sleeping in the ground did y'all know that this was a house plant or that it was a perennial I should say that yeah that makes more sense yeah when you see those strawberry Bonas and those hanging baskets at the big box stores you can pop those in your garden in the shade they're very very very easy to grow they will last a long time they fill in very nicely they have a shallow ryome on them so they're easy to control if they start to take over move into spots you don't want them to be and you can just pull them right out so it's not a ground cover that's going to absolutely take over and just eat your garden alive it's easy to maintain the shape of the patch that you want to have in the ground just a fun one I really like these it's going to be interesting to see how that fills out you have a nice big patch of those nice fun round leaves they're kind of stiff and upright with that veining I love the veining too we didn't talk about that nice color in there good color on the veining it's hard to find ground covers that have big broad leaves that are evergreen the the further I guess North you are the more cold your climate then the more potential there's going to be for there to be some winter dieback I Tred and think it kind of like a hokura where they're typically Evergreen but maybe towards late winter you might start to see some dieback or they may look a little bit ratty I guess the way to say it raggedy and maybe need to clean them up and cut them back some if you have a really really really harsh winter but for the most part 3A to 9B that's a pretty sturdy plant I don't think that there should be much dieback on them yall like May apples how about this may apple I'm sorry that wasn't funny I shouldn't have done that this is a philm hybrid so I guess I could maybe talk about May apples a little bit mayapples poopum is a plant with a lot of different species I believe their native range goes from somewhere in the Middle East Afghanistan I believe over into China and then there are the North American May apples which go from Canada down all the way I think down to Texas they have a very broad range and pretty interesting plants the one in North America have a short leaf that is heavily split comes up just maybe a foot or so above the ground and they go dormant in the summer they spread very very very heavily this right here is the pho filum X Bor for May I don't know if I'm saying that right Standing Tall it's a hybrid may apple here's the info from the website you can see nice and big and also why it's called Standing Tall 42 in tall that's what drew me to this plant is just a massive proportion on it a very unusual philm and this being a hybrid it's not one that's going to go dormant during the summer like the American Ty spool which I believe is peltata I'm not positive that's neither here nor there we need to go into all of that but just listen to that description makes a very tall plant to 3 and 1/2 ft composed of thick stems bearing massive 25 in Jagged cut green leaves that's just sounds awesome doesn't it and they flower in early spring that continues sporadically through the summer the flower clusters hang just beneath the leaves each cluster of over two dozen round red flowers is quite spectacular starts for them in North Carolina around March and continues through summer so you get a show from them too they keep putting on flowers the flowers do hang generally just below the foliage so you kind of got to look for them but it's still interesting and Ive had been talking about when I was doing things and past Vlogs With That shade garden about some plants like farfugium and wanting some really big bold texture over there and uh I saw this and I was like well that just seems like a really cool unique mayapple that I think will look really neat in the shade garden they tend to be pretty long lived this one as I said isn't going to spread and take over as much they should form little patches wherever you plant them as opposed to just filling in the entire area 42 in tall that's pretty tall this is about 42 in tall right here I would say this fan which I'll go wide screen there we go that's pretty big 3 and 1/2 ft that is going to look very interesting in the garden those great big giant round cup-shaped leaves it's almost an alien like plant poop films are really neat there are tons of them to choose from if you have a woodland Garden or a shady area part sun to full shade really probably part shade to shade I that's going to depend on your climate the hotter and drier the more shade they're going to need for sure but they definitely are plants that grow in the shade you think about where they grow in nature it's going to be the understory of the woods is mostly where you find them and they flush up do their thing they put on a show with their flowers and then around the heat of the summer and when the trees are fully flushed out at least the American VAR of the peltata that goes dorming so it's like yeah we're not getting any sun we already did our thing just chill until next year so that's great option if you want something that's going to fill in a nice area with some really big interesting leaves speaking of interesting leav you got to see the next one this next one it has really really cool foliage and it's a plant I've had my eye on at plant dos for a very long time I'm letting it drip gave them all a drink you know they were in a box it's important give them some water look at this one those leaves particularly this one isn't that a neat Leaf absolutely beautiful and this is nothing compared to what I'm hoping to get to see out of this one as this one grows this is another poopum go it's so pretty I'm going to put the info up here on the screen so you can get a better picture of what to expect from the foliage but I don't don't I don't leave me alone about the price I told you I wanted this Garden to have some very unusual and unique plants sometimes it's going to come at a cost I've wanted one of these for such a long time and I think that this is just the perfect plant to have in that area where I want very unique and unusual plants to be growing look at that leaf those leaves up I should say yeah I mentioned it's another poopum right the deformed Leaf mayapple this one's a 6B to 8B so not as cold hearty as a lot of the other ones are same thing as the other poopum shouldn't go dormant during the summertime like the native ones do this one goes 20 in tall so really nice big tall foliage on it that is extremely dramatic look at those leaves look how dramatic they are they say that this one is unique because of the purple patterning on the top side which you can see in those pictures right that purpley bronzy Hue with that silvery variegation that runs through the metal and a very unique Leaf shape which I think they described as quadrangle I think that's the word they use look at that it's just it's such a cool looking leaf and these don't even they're not colored up and remember everything that's here was they were in green houses in a shade house right so they're going to color up as time passes I talked about that with the Galactic traveler Agave back there in my last Plant Hall from Plant Delights that you give them the outdoor conditions it's when the collor and things really start to shine and really just getting them in the ground something I didn't mention I don't think with the other poopum is that they are plants that do like an organically Rich slightly moist well- drained sight so that area where I'm planting things up does tend to have more dry soil it is very rich but it is more dry so I'm going to have to be very mindful at where I put them mainly just that they're in line with the sprinkler systems my sprinkler is in that area back there are very odd they don't hit very evenly but there are some sections where they hit very well and then other sections that they just completely Miss and uh that's kind of why I have a variety of plants here that are going to go from dry shade to more not necessarily moist shade but the hydrated does that that didn't make sense and that's why I have a selection of plants here that are plants that can take the dry shade and plants that can will really need I should say more moist conditions because I have various areas and there's a slope so you know water moves and everything and I'll get irrigation set up on there next year anyways this year I'll be hand watering everything just to be really certain everything is getting a nice drink and getting some time to establish themselves before they go dormant for their first winter but like I I thought I should mention that they do like a slightly moist soil since a lot of the other plants I've talked about I've mentioned them being plants that can take the dry shade these I don't know about dry Shades they're going to want some moisture and then another note tracing back to the Standing Tall poopum I may have it wrong about whether or not that one goes dormant during the summer I'm not positive so I tried my best to memorize these descriptions before I filmed the video and uh the writing was only there for the deform for this one over here about them not going dormant during the winter time or the summer time but I don't I don't know for sure about this one over here I would be surprised since it's a hybrid it's a hybrid with the bore for me but I I guess we'll find out I think it's because the description said that the flowers start for them in March and continue through September that's what made me think that they must not do the dormy that like the native pelat is do because those tend to go dormant generally like by July depending on where you live really June a lot of places so I don't know we'll find out I I don't think it will though I would be surprised yeah I just think that because this one is a cross between the Bor form Bor form and the dform since it has the die form in there it shouldn't I don't I don't know if the Bor form we don't need to but we like I said it's going to plan out we'll figure it out I don't believe either of those are ones that go dormant we can move on to the next one the last one look at it it's spiky it's got some good color in there too beautiful variegation very thirsty plants this an Agave Agave Des Joe hul now I talked about this one in my last plant video when I got the galactic Travelers that are back here that Plant Delights they have an amazing selection of particularly variegated Agave but agave in general they have tons of them and how the Joe Hulk was one that I have wanted and then I saw they had it when I was making that video when I put up on the screen everybody I was talking about so I ordered it going to need some time and repot right away this thing's ready for nice big bump up look at the girth on this it's going to be very happy to get into a new container so the it's just a pretty Agave really know what else to say about it this is not for the shade garden at all this is a tropical plant they're going to want Sun they about 3 ft tall and this comes from a nursery in South Florida uh Joe h of Ho's Nursery so person who brought this plant about has glaucous gay leaves bordered in cream and surrounded by a dark green Edge you see the picture right I mean come on that's just an absolutely stunning Agave the variegation on that is so pretty I love when variegation gives you various shades of green and cream and not so much harsh yellows I find it to be more peaceful calm and soothing of a variegation than the harsh yellows that you see with a lot of other variegated yakas and Agave this is not a yua variegated ging yet cuz you know what I'm saying I've been talking too much the brain stopped working we have a disconnect going on between the mouth and the Brain at this point it's a lot to memorize to try and make sure I have those descriptions down you see it it's a beautiful plant little bit of TLC going to be needed for both of the Agaves but not much these are both Agave that are very sturdy so couple of waterings and get them moved out into the I'm going to start with part sun and they will be looking good as new in no time and this one particularly should put on a good amount of growth can't wait to see that so this one's not going to be like the uh one I showed before the oveta Folia where I'm going to be leaving it outside until it's like 20° depending on precipitation this is a tropical I already mentioned that but I just wanted to make sure to bring that point home we're going to be treating this as a house plant Agave make wonderful house plants spiky house plants but good house plants the main thing with them is just don't water them very much during the winter time and as long as your soil is draining really well and they're not sitting in water if it's warm outside and sunny you can water them to your heart's content that's what's fun about them is they are a succulent they do like dry or do I should say do well in drier conditions but they can take plenty of precipitation and water as long as things are warm sunny and they have some air flow and again never sitting in water that's just the kiss of death this has been fun so in the last two plant Halls I've managed to knock off a few wish list plants I've wanted for a long time the galactic traveler Agave it's a beauty love the coloration on it silvery blue kind of sparkly with that chartreuse yellowy outline the Joe Hoke which is beautiful that's going I can't I'm so looking forward to seeing that one do some growing it's such a nice looking agave that's nice and big too I'm really happy with the size on that one and then the Dior philm just those leaves this is just in a 4in container that's 20 in tall it's nice stiff CED foliage that very irregular shape to them and that variegation a that's going to look so neat and there it is lots of fun new plants very distracted got a stalker over here looking forward to getting these planted which will be happening soon that's a nice change of pace too the weather's now cooperating more mild temperatures can start plopping things in the ground and get moving on that shade garden especially now that I have the rest of the plants really flood nice plants look at that leaf that's such a cool Leaf got the big booty Royal Fern over here tons of texture with the Korean tassel Fern awesome beautiful large Lea Evergreen Ground Covers nice strappy foliage I'm liking this pette here it's the Agave is kind of destroying the palette it doesn't belong here but you get it hope youall don't mind the informality of just sitting on the couch and holding the plants in hand I kind of liked it that way when it comes to plants I do think it's nice to be able to just sit back and be like hey let's talk about them and keep it a little bit less formal and relaxed that way uh also just because there's just there's so many projects I don't have my nice setup going on right now where I can use the tripod and everything and I needed some shade just worked out well okay that's going to do it comment down below what are some of your favorites you like these plants you have experience growing some of these plants I'm sure put have You' all been growing poopum and maybe the Rodas perhaps the saxop fragas Korean tesl ferns they're pretty common yeah just let us know let's know what's going on your Gardens and some fun stuff you might have going on for your fall activities any fun fall planting projects there's so much to do this time of year it's not I'm not done planting yet I have people ask me why are you still planting things I'm like well why would I why would I stop planting there's no need to depending on the plant there are some plants that I don't plant when it's warm outside but we're moving to that time of year where we're going to start having some cooler temperatures in the evening and the ground's nice and warm precipitation is going to start picking up here soon so this is a good time to be getting things in the ground making moves getting that Garden up and going okay as always and most importantly everybody look at that look at the color it's so much color in there keep on growing byebye [Music] oh [Music]