Bring Exotic Vibes Indoor With These 15 Palm Trees!

Home sweet home can also become a sunny tropical island, with a beach, palms, and a blue ocean spreading to the horizon… Well, not fully, unless you actually live at the tropics, but you can get the effect, the impression, the ambience, and the look! How? Grow the right houseplants!

Indoor palms and cycads can really transform your indoor spaces into a corner of an exotic paradise, with their lush and usually evergreen leaves, and their iconic shape! Fan shaped or frond shaped, they always create very decorative tufts at the top of the trunks, and this is what spells the word “tropical”, even in an office or living room in a cold norther state!

But which is best for your indoor décor? Which is best for your light conditions? And – above all – which is the one you will fall in love with?

So, if you like the tropical island look, here are your 15 best friends to transform your living spaces or office into exotic looking spaces!

1. Chinese Fan Palm (Livistonia chinensis)

Bring the vibes and look of China, Japan and Taiwan into your hone or office, by growing Chinese fan palm. Actually, it also has all the traits you would expect in a tropical variety from an atoll in the Pacific Ocean… But with a twist, which makes it look even more tropical and decorative.

In fact, its very lush and fan shaped fronds give you a very elegant cascading effect, softer than in other palms, and their bright emerald color adds to its florid presence… Wipe the foliage regularly and you will also enjoy its glossy sheen… Slow growing, it will keep this leafy display on top of a very straight, upright trunk which turns gray brown as it ages.

A very popular houseplant but also a garden favorite, Livistonia chinensis will offer you an extra spectacle outdoors… There, it will grow quite tall and also produce massive clusters of creamy white flowers (up to 6 feet long, or 1.8 meters!), followed by lots of dark blue fruits… This is very rare indoors, but you could try to encourage this by brining it outside in spring, if the climate is mild…

Easy to grow and sculpturally attractive, Chinese fan palm is also easy to find… For these reasons, it is a safe but rewarding variety to choose for any indoor space that needs a touch of warmth and an exotic breath.

  • Minimum temperature indoors:  55 to 60oF (13 to 16oC).
  • Light exposure: bright indirect light; give it a quarter turn every week for shape and thorough lighting.
  • Flowering season: spring (very rare indoors)
  • Indoor size: 4 to 6 feet tall (1.2 to 1.8 meters) and 2 to 3 feet in spread (60 to 90 cm).
  • Soil and water requirements: 2 parts peat moss or substitute potting soil and 1 part sharp sand; allow the soil to dry up slightly before watering; usually once a week and less in winter.

2. Dwarf Bamboo Palm (Chamaedorea radicalis)

Maybe you need and want a “frondy” and fern like presence in your living room or office, and you don’t have a massive space; then, dwarf bamboo palm may be what you are looking for. In fact, this variety will produce an elegant tuft of of palmate leaves that rise into the air and then they arch slightly.

With very thin petioles and bright emerald green long, lance shaped leaflets, it will give you very finely textured and soft looking foliage, with many “stems” rising from your pot or container. It has that look you would expect under the thick canopy of a rain forest, where you would expect to find a panda bear munching on it. In fact, it looks a bit like a bamboo clump, but it isn’t.

Yet another asset of this leafy beauty is that it is one of the rare palms that will blossom and fruit indoors, with long drooping clusters of bright yellow flowers that turn into berries that ripen to bright and shiny red!

Grow dwarf bamboo palm in your indoor spaces and you will have a fresh, light and airy corner all year round, and a splash of color as a bonus once a year… It can also grow in cold rooms and less than perfect light conditions!

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 20oF (6.7oC)!
  • Light exposure: bright or medium indirect light.
  • Flowering season: usually mid or late spring, but possible all year round.
  • Size: 4 to 7 feet tall (1.2 to 2.1 meters) and 2 to 3 feet in spread (60 to 90 cm).
  • Soil and water requirements: good quality, generic and humus based potting soil with added drainage; water when the top 2 inches (5.0 cm) of soil have dried up.

3. Ivory Cane Palm (Pinanga coronata)

Ivory Cane Palm (Pinanga coronata)

Coming to your home from the rain forests of South East Asia, especially Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi, ivory can palm also brings all the atmosphere, the lush beauty and the exotic personality you’d expect from varieties of that region… And something more: outstanding elegance… Yes, because the frond like pinnate leaves that arch beautifully are like works of art, sculptural and bright, deep, emerald green, with a glossy sheen.

The fact is that the long and the broad and corrugated leaflets have a very regular arrangement, arching sideways from from the petiole, and they may remind you of spread wings with soft feathers… These will spread in tufts from very slim, cane like trunks, with a pale brown color and very smooth surface… While its inflorescences are spectacular, with strings of bead like flowers that open in an amazing purple bract, you will only see this show if you grow it outdoors.

Still, ivory cane palm is one of the most elegant and sculptural varieties you can ever grow indoors, and it will fill your rooms with an exotic and tropical leafy display that is hard to match.

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 40oF (5oC).
  • Light exposure: bright or medium indirect light.
  • Flowering season: never indoors.
  • Size: 5 to 10 feet tall (1.5 to 3.0 meters) and 4 to 5 feet in spread (1.2 to 1.5 meters).
  • Soil and water requirements: ideally 40% good quality generic potting soil, 25% coco coir, 25% compost based potting soil, 5% perlite and 5% charcoal chips; water when the top 2 inches (5.0 cm) of soil have dried up.

4. Lipstick Palm (Crytostachys renda)

Lipstick Palm (Crytostachys renda)

I have a very colorful surprise in store for your indoor spaces – and the clue is in the name… Lipstick palm comes from the Malay Peninsula, Thailand, Borneo and Sumatra where it grows in wet peat swamps, tidal coastal areas and river banks… And it brings with it an amazing exotic beauty for your living room or office, but with a twist… And in fact we will start with the trunk, which is amazingly smooth and shiny, but also incredibly colored with bright scarlet red, or at times, also wine purple and orange!

The large fronds with an upright habit that top it should not take second place, however… Pinnate and with equally colorful petioles and mid ribs, they have very regularly arranged blade like leaflets of the most brilliant emerald shade! The contrast is both striking and balanced, and a real asset! It will not blossom indoors, but in the open, long arching clusters of cream blooms will develop from the rings of the trunks, and then they will become cherry red fruits that last for months.

Lipstick palm is not the easiest variety to grow, but it is one of the most striking looking ones! If you really want to wow your guests and visitors, then, this bright red and emerald green exotic beauty is by far your best choice!

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 50oF (10oC).
  • Light exposure: bright or medium indirect light.
  • Flowering season: not indoors.
  • Indoor size: 8 to 10 feet tall (2.4 to 3.0 meters) and 4 to 5 feet in spread (1.2 to 1.5 meters).
  • Soil and water requirements: nutrient rich and well drained potting soil, also mixed with peat moss or substitute and certainly perlite or coarse sand; keep humid at all time, watering when the top 2 inches (5.0 cm) of soil have dried up.

5. Ponytail Palm (Beaucarnea recurvata)

Ponytail Palm (Beaucarnea recurvata)

Let’s change look completely! And, in fact, ponytail palm is not technically a palm but a tree from semi desert areas of Mexico, Belize and Guatemala, but it is treated as one when it comes to houseplants and gardening… While in Nature it can grow to considerable heights, it is very slow growing, so, it will keep under the ceiling in a container.

Now let’s see why it is strange… It has a very large, bulging gray trunk that looks like a bulb at the base, and this makes it very sculptural and attractive indeed… But it soon slims down to elegant and sinuous “columns” that end in a tuft of long, thin, glossy green leaves that cascade back down with an arching movement!

For sure you can see why it has great decorative value, and its unusual appearance has made it a very popular choice indeed. Outdoors, it will also produce amazing plumes of flowers rising from the very top, but unfortunately, this will never happen in enclosed spaces.

A stunning presence in any brightly lit room, ponytail palm is easy to grow and quite forgiving; its sculptural qualities make it one of the best varieties to grow as a centerpiece or an intriguing point of attraction.

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 68oF (20oC).
  • Light exposure: bright indirect light.
  • Flowering season: not indoors.
  • Indoor size: 4 to 5 feet tall (1.2 to 1.5 meters) and 2 to 3 feet in spread (60 to 90 cm).
  • Soil and water requirements: ideally use cactus or succulent potting mix, or generic potting soil mixed with plenty of drainage; water when the soil has dried up almost completely, or at least by 2/3.

6. Mexican Blue Palm (Brahea armata)

Mexican Blue Palm (Brahea armata)

The name says it all… or almost all! Mexican blue palm cones from Mexico, but also Baja California and Sonora, and it’s blue, but not just… Let’s unravel this… The fan shaped fronds with very stiff long and pointed, blade like leaflets are actually of a bluish, aquamarine color, but sometimes a bit greenish or even silver grayish as well. They can be 5 feet across (1.5 meters) in the wild, but this tree downsizes if indoors and in a pot, so, don’t worry.

Still, be ready to have an impressive houseplant, because the leaves are super decorative, because the foliage is very geometric and symmetrical, often with a clear fold in the exact middle and it forms an impressive rosette. They are held up and outward by strong and sturdy petioles that can be of the same shades as the leaves, but at times also with orange blushes! All this happens on top of a fibrous trunk, which thickens with age and has a brownish tonality.

This variety too will bloom profusely, with massive drooping panicles of cream yellow flowers, soft looking and dense, but only in outdoor conditions. In fact, it is also much appreciated for landscaping, and it has won the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society.

In our search for palm varieties with amazing and different colors, Mexican blue palm takes center stage for its rare shades, as it will I a big and well lit living or office space or conservatory, thanks to its sculptural qualities.

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 14oF (-10oC).
  • Light exposure: bright indirect light.
  • Flowering season: not indoors.
  • Indoor size: 6 to 10 feet tall (1.8 to 3.0 meters) and 5 to 8 feet in spread (1.5 to 2.4 meters), slow growing.
  • Soil and water requirements: very well drained cactus potting mix or similar, with pH from neutral to mildly alkaline; water when most of the soil (even all) has dried up. It is drought tolerant.

7. Manila Palm (Veitchia merrillii)

Manila Palm (Veitchia merrillii)

Also called Christmas palm, because its fruits mature to red at about this festive time, Manila palm is an exotic tree hailing with its elegant and sculptural beauty from Borneo, the Philippines and Palawan Island, where it can grow quite tall. But, like other varieties, if you keep it in a container and you have it indoors, it will grow slowly and much less… Still, there is something quite special about this exotic species.

Its upright, straight or only gently bending trunk is quite lean, slender and… When it’s young, or the young part of it, is smooth like bamboo cane, and brownish. Yet as it ages, and the old part, is grayish and with horizontal rings… And above it, you will see a wonderful tuft of arching pinnate fronds with dense, thick and lush leaflets… These are bright to mid green, and they too arch sideways, forming a very decorative, 3D effect!

There is also an incredible variety, ‘Golden’ with the bright color of straw! Soft looking cream white flowers will appear in May and June, like pompons with many wooly filaments, and they will turn into juicy fruits, first green, then, as we said red. But this is hardly possible indoors, even if it is a much loved and popular houseplant.

Miami palm is quite common in important indoor spaces, like big and stately halls, where it can impress visitors with its sculptural elegance, but you can grow it in any good sized living or office space, or if you do have a conservatory, that would be just perfect and it would turn it into a tropical and exotic corner.

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 65oF (18oC).
  • Light exposure: bright indirect light.
  • Flowering season: late spring and early summer, but virtually impossible indoors, unless it’s a conservatory.
  • Indoor size: 5 to 10 feet tall (1.5 to 3.0 meters) and 4 to 5 feet in spread (1.2 to 1.5 meters).
  • Soil and water requirements: any well drained soil like generic potting soil, or peat moss substitute, but ideally African violet soil, in all cases, improved with perlite or coarse sand; water when 1/3 of the soil has dried up, and never get it either soggy or dry.

8. Pigmy Date Palm (Phoenix roebelenii)

Pigmy Date Palm (Phoenix roebelenii)

Here is another very well known, loved and widespread variety in both gardens and as a houseplant, a dwarf tree native of Laos, China and Japan: pigmy date palm… It had a very iconic, classic personality, but it is naturally small and cold hardy. And maybe this is why it has become a worldwide favorite… In fact, you will see a round mound of fine foliage on top of the upright and straight trunk, which is brownish gray in color, and with diamond shaped patterns.

It can be single stemmed but sometimes also multi trunked. These are left by the dried up leaves, which you can cut or allow to fall as this plant grows. But back to the fronds… They arch very beautifully and very regularly and they have a compound pinnate structure, with descending linear leaflets, bright green in color. Here’s another palm that will produce beautiful drooping panicles of cream yellow blooms in a garden, followed by edible drupes that look like olives (or dates, indeed), but not in an enclosed room…

The classic elegance of slow growing pigmy date palm makes it one of the most well appreciated varieties as an indoor houseplant, and in fact it has won the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. It is also suitable for basically all settings, being attractive but adaptable to most styles and positions, also as backdrop to other plants.

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 26oF (-3oC).
  • Light exposure: bright indirect light.
  • Flowering season: not indoors.
  • Indoor size: 6 to 10 feet tall maximum (1.8 to 3.0 meters) and 6 to 8 feet in spread (1.8 to 2.4 meters); very slow growing, and you can buy quite small specimens too.
  • Soil and water requirements: use a rich and fertile soil based generic potting mix with added drainage; water when the top 1 inch (2.5 cm) of soil has dried up.

9. Fishtail Palm (Caryota mitis)

Fishtail Palm (Caryota mitis)

Seeing a grown up fishtail palm in the open air, in a botanical park or in its natural setting is a real experience! Native of tropical Asia, this majestic tree produces amazing arching roughly triangular fronds that reach 10 feet long (3.0 meters)! And the patten you will see on them is amazing, really! This is because the leaflets are arranged very regularly, and they have the shale of fishtails, or butterfly wings, and they are dark, deep green and very glossy indeed.

These fans look like they have come out of a Jurassic park, or out of a hieroglyph with some sort of spell… But how can you grow it indoors? Luckily, it is slow growing and with its roots in a container it will keep smaller. You will not get the awe inspiring size of the foliage, and when it is young, the petioles will send them up.

What is more, the leaves won’t be fully developed, and you will get a less artistic, less geometric structure, but still… It remains one of the most exotic varieties you can ever have! As it starts maturing it will become more and more beautiful and decorative… Unfortunately, it is hard to see it in bloom outdoors, let alone inside a room…

Fishtail palm is a lovely, lush looking tropical palm that looks like a tuft of creatively shaped leaves when it is young, but as it grows, it becomes and impressively decorative tree that needs center stage and a focal position.

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 60oF (15.5oC).
  • Light exposure: bright indirect light or light shade.
  • Flowering season: never indoors.
  • Indoor size: 5 to 15 feet tall (1.5 to 4.5 meters) and 2 to 10 feet in spread (60 cm to 3.0 meters), very slow growing.
  • Soil and water requirements: use 2/3 good quality and nutrient rich generic potting soil and 1/3 coarse sand or perlite; water when the top 2 or 3 inches (5.0 to 7.5 cm) of soil has dried up.

10. Kentia Palm (Howea forsteriana)

Kentia Palm (Howea forsteriana)

Here is another variety that will suit most indoor spaces, with few demands and a gentle personality to offer: Kenita palm. Endemic of Lord Howe Island in Australia – hence the binomial name – it has a little twist that makes it different from other palms, and quite valuable as well. While adult, tall and big specimens have in trunk, the younger and small ones we grow as houseplants are usually multi stemmed…

This gives it a very tufty, almost fern like appearance, which translated into a lush clump of exotic looking foliage… The pinnate frond like leaves are steadied by strong and upright petioles, and they rise up, close together, only ti arch softly when they ripen… The glossy lance shaped leaflet are bright to mid or even deep green in tonality, and they give you fine texture – which is its main asset. Its blooms are spectacular, but never seen on young plants and never indoors…

One of the least demanding varieties you can grow, Kentia palm will be great in any room, as a decorative backdrop and a bringer of peace, green foliage, structure and that tropical underbrush look we all love and enjoy.

  • Minimum temperature indoors:  61oF (16oC).
  • Light exposure: bright or medium indirect light.
  • Flowering season: never indoors.
  • Indoor size: 3 to 12 feet tall (90 cm to 3.6 meters) and 2 to 5 feet in spread (60 cm to 1.5 meters), slow growing.
  • Soil and water requirements: use 2/3 good quality and rich loam based potting soil and 1/3 coarse sand or perlite; water when the top 2 inches (5.0 cm) of soil have dried up, usually once a week.

11. Lady Palm (Rhapis excelsa)

Lady Palm (Rhapis excelsa)

Lady palm is arguably one of the most popular indoor varieties all over the world, why? It may be that this exotic beauty from China and Vietnam tolerates most light conditions, so you can even grow it in a dark corner of your home or office (or garden)? Or it may be that it is very low maintenance and slow growing? Yes, possibly both, and in fact, it has won the famous Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society… But the real reason is that its is particularly decorative.

In fact, its glossy leaves are quite large, about 20 inches across, and fan shaped… Their elegance is also given by the fairly few and very regularly arranged stiff blade like leaflets, usually between 5 and 10, so, it really looks like a stylized fan from an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph or painting… You can almost picture a pharaoh sitting on a throne under it.

These are held upright by very strong, straight and sturdy petioles, that, in young specimens, grow from fascicles that stay close to the soil… In bright to dark green shades, depending on sunlight and maturity, they will give you a sculptural element as well as a tropical atmosphere. While it is not common, it may even blossom indoors, with elegant clusters of small rosy flowers followed by lime yellow fruits.

As easy to find as to grow, lady palm can work well in all indoor settings, from formal offices to cosy living spaces. Its adaptability to different growing conditions is matched by its adaptability to decorative functions: from a centerpiece in a table to a soothing presence in a dark corner…

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 60oF (16oC).
  • Light exposure: bright, medium or low indirect light.
  • Flowering season: spring, but rare indoors and only on mature plants.
  • Indoor size: 3 to 6 feet tall (90 cm to 1.8 meters) and 2 to 4 feet in spread (60 to 120 cm).
  • Soil and water requirements: ideally well drained African violet potting mix with pH from mildly acidic to neutral; water when the top 2 inches (5.9 cm) of soil have dried up.

12. Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera)

Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera)

Could it miss from our selection? No! Coconut palms are some of the most iconic in the world, if not “the” most symbolic of all… They immediately bring to mind a white and sandy beach on an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as you sip its fresh milk in front of a cobalt blue sea… And they are becoming more and more popular as houseplants.

Of course, the coconut itself is a decorative asset, as it stays at the base of the shoot for some time, when the plant is young… from it, you will see lance shaped corrugated leaflets rise and grow, with their bright emerald green tonality… These are actually just a hint at what the frond like foliage will become… In adult specimens, they reach a whopping 13 feet long (4.0 meters), but they won’t in your sitting room – no need to call the builders in to pull down a partition wall.

Still, they will become pinnate, arching and fern like. In the meantime, the trunk will begin to develop, and, as the old foliage dries up, it will turn from smooth and brownish, to ringed and grayish… O e thing you will not see indoors is the plumes of dark golden blossoms and then the large fruits indoors… On the one hand, no risk of one falling on your head; on the other, you will have to book a holiday to see this spectacle…

Coconut palms have an especially sculptural quality when they are young; in a brightly lit office or living space, they will always bring a sweet smile onto anybody’s face, and bring up postcard memories of Sun, sea and soft beaches…

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 72oF (22oC).
  • Light exposure: bright indirect light.
  • Flowering season: never indoors.
  • Indoor size: 5 to 10 feet tall (1.5 to 3.0 meters) and 1 to 6 feet in spread (30 cm to 1.8 meters); slow growing (5 feet in 5 years), but it will keep growing, so, one day you will have to find it a new hime in the open air.
  • Soil and water requirements: any very well drained generic potting soil with lots of sand (even 50%) and pH from mildly acidic to neutral; water when the top 2 inches (5.0 cm) of soil have dried up.

13. Jelly Palm (Butia capitata)

Jelly Palm (Butia capitata)

Native of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, jelly palm is becoming a great protagonist of indoor and outdoor spaces all over the world! And it is no surprise… Winner of the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society, in its young stages it will offer you a robust, thick and almost bulb like base with woody diamond shaped bark close to the ground… This is what will grow into a taller and taller trunk, straight and strong, which in itself looks like a work of art.

From its top, you will see waxy surfaced, arching petioles arise and then curve outward, with a geometric and harmonic elegance that is really hard to describe… And there you will see the blade like, long and pointed, stiff leaflets depart on both sides. The effect is particularly graceful because they are spaced out, allowing you to see through them.

Then, of course, the foliage has an amazing color, bluish green to aquamarine or grayish blue! It looks like a fountain spurting up and then falling down! If you grow it in a conservatory, you may also see masses of golden and fragrant flowers on drooping panicles that turn into amber colored and delicious fruits.

Having jelly palm in a living room or office is like keeping a living and exotic water sculpture of great value. For this reason, it needs to take center stage in a very brightly lit position.

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 5oF (-15oC).
  • Light exposure: bright indirect light.
  • Flowering season: summer, almost impossible indoors but likely in a conservatory and outdoors.
  • Indoor size: 3 to 10 feet tall (90 cm to 3.0 meters) and 3 to 6 feet in spread (90 cm to 1.8 meters), slow growing.
  • Soil and water requirements: use good quality, generic potting soil and add 1/3 of perlite or coarse sand; water once the top 3 inches (7.5 cm) of soil have dried up.

14. Sunset Palm (Calyptrocalyx albertisianus)

Sunset Palm (Calyptrocalyx albertisianus)

Get ready to be blown away! If you really want a very impressive houseplant, there is a less known variety that will wow your visitors any time: sunset palm! A naturally small species from the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, it holds the reputation of this island for super exotic plants high… Single trunked, it produces large and arching pinnate leaves that spread out rather than up.

Bright to mid emerald green, the broad and pointed, elliptical leaflets are very glossy indeed! This amazing rosette of super lush foliage is, however, only the frame, the backdrop of the main asset of this tree… The new leaf that rises from the center, in fact, will point up, unlike the others and, hear, hear… It is red! And not just vaguely so… It will start off as dark ruby, then fade to carmine and scarlet and only take on rosy shades as it progressively shades into green!

It’s like watching a massive flame rise from a forest! Younger specimens have a simplified but still jaw dropping shape… The leaflets are joined together to form a corrugated two lobed leaf… The flowers are like cotton buds, cream white and very small, hardly seen in greenhouses, so you will have to do without them indoors…

One of the most spectacular palms in the whole world, there is no way you can grow sunset palm as a backdrop to other plants indoors… It will, absolutely steal the show and become the center of attention anywhere you put it, like a burning but exotic hearth in the middle of room. However, it is not easy to find…

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 41oF (5oC).
  • Light exposure: bright or medium indirect light.
  • Flowering season: never indoors.
  • Indoor size: 8 to 10 feet tall and in spread (2.4 to 3.0 meters); usually grown as young palms, 2 to 4 feet tall and in spread (60 to 120 cm).
  • Soil and water requirements: mix nutrient and organically rich generic potting soil with 1/3 drainage (coarse sand or perlite); water when the top 1 or 2 inches (2.5 to 5.0 cm) of soil have dried up.

15. Parlor Palm (Chamaeodorea elegans)

And after a very unusual variety, we conclude our exotic and leafy selection with a popular classic: parlor palm. As the name suggests, it has a very elegant appearance, starting from when it is a young tree, and it looks like a tuft of finely textured bamboo shoots that rise straight from the soil, with their glossy and emerald green color… Slow growing  reduces the number of trunks as it develops into an adult tree (and you can propagate it in the meantime…).

While you may wish to keep a single trunk, having a few, like three, will give you the typical picture perfect effect of palms growing on a tropical island we see in comics… The pinnate leaves on waxy petioles start arching at the sides, slowly taking on a fountain shape, and spreading outward over time, while a reddish brown coconut coir like coat starts developing under this finely textured, round, and decorative canopy.

Maybe one of the reasons why it has become so popular is that it also blossoms indoors. Rays of cream to yellow flowers can appear in winter or early spring, then turning into spherical shiny fruits that ripen to red.

Very cheap, low maintenance and easy to find, parlor palm could be the easiest solution to turn a corner of your office, hall or living room into a slice of tropical and exotic rainforest paradise.

  • Minimum temperature indoors: 60oF (15.5oC).
  • Light exposure: bright or medium indirect light.
  • Flowering season: winter and early spring, not common , but possible.
  • Indoor size: 2 to 8 feet tall (60 cm to 2.4 meters) and 2 to 5 feet in spread (60 cm to 1.5 meters), slow growing.
  • Soil and water requirements: use 2/3 compost based and rich generic potting soil and 1/3 coarse sand or perlite with acidic pH; water when the top 2 to 3 inches (5.0 to 7.5 cm) of soil have dried up.

Tropical Palms for Sunny Indoor Spaces

And now you have a great selection of amazing, exotic looking and tropical palms, so you can have that little slice of heaven in your indoor spaces, both at home and at work!

Amber Noyes

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Amber Noyes

Amber Noyes was born and raised in a suburban California town, San Mateo. She holds a master’s degree in horticulture from the University of California as well as a BS in Biology from the University of San Francisco. With experience working on an organic farm, water conservation research, farmers’ markets, and plant nursery, she understands what makes plants thrive and how we can better understand the connection between microclimate and plant health. When she’s not on the land, Amber loves informing people of new ideas/things related to gardening, especially organic gardening, houseplants, and growing plants in a small space.

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