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Dig into the joy of gardening with friendly tips, clever tricks, and expert advice — helping your plants thrive and your patch of paradise grow beautifully, no matter your experience level!
Discover New Plants
Discover extraordinary, unusual, and beautiful plants from around the world — each with growing and care tips to help you cultivate these weird and wonderful species in your own space.
Begonia fusca
Dusky-leaved begonia
A large-leaved rhizomatous begonia grown for its bold, deeply veined foliage rather than its flowers.
- Partial shade
- 0.5–1 m (2–3 ft)
- H1b · Zone 10
Abutilon × milleri ‘Variegatum’
Variegated trailing abutilon
An arching evergreen shrub with cream-marbled maple-like leaves and pendent orange bells.
- Full sun, Partial shade
- 1–1.8 m (3–6 ft)
- H3 · Zone 9
Gunnera × cryptica
Giant rhubarb
A colossal, umbrella-leaved perennial widely sold in the past as 'Gunnera manicata', now restricted in the…
- Full sun, Partial shade
- 1.5–2.5 m (5–8 ft)
- H5 · Zone 7
Hosta ‘Empress Wu’
Giant plantain lily
An immense hosta with heavily veined blue-green leaves and tall spikes of pale violet flowers.
- Partial shade
- 1–1.5 m (3–5 ft)
- H7 · Zone 3
Aloe polyphylla
Spiral aloe
A remarkable aloe whose fleshy toothed leaves form a precise clockwise or anticlockwise spiral.
- Full sun
- 20–50 cm (8–20 in)
- H3 · Zone 8
Begonia ‘Benitochiba’
Benitochiba rex begonia
A striking rex begonia with deeply divided silver leaves, dark green veins and vivid pink young…
- Partial shade
- 20–45 cm (8–18 in)
- H1b · Zone 10
