Welcome Visitors with Stunning Tropical Plants

There is a reason why millions of people flock to Florida each year  – the abundant sunshine, beautiful beaches, and vacation vibe are hard to resist. If you have a commercial property that welcomes visitors, creating a tropical landscape is a great way to immerse guests and customers into the environment, even when they are indoors. Designing a tropical paradise at your place of business- whether a shopping mall, hotel, or restaurant – ensures that your guests have the natural, beautiful experience they came to Florida for. In this article, we look at some of the most popular tropical plants that landscape designers use to create an indoor paradise.

Plants that Create a Tropical Oasis

If you are designing a lobby, decorating an atrium, or installing a conference event, using these tropical varieties is sure to put your guests in a vacation mood.

• Horsehead Philodendron: This stunning and exotic plant features large, emerald-green leaves that grow on individual vertical stems. The plant is artistic and sculptural and is perfect for filling in large spaces. Not only that, but the philodendron is also one of the best plants to utilize for air purification.
• Rainbow Croton: While crotons are fairly common in Florida landscapes, the Rainbow variety showcases vibrant green, yellow, red, and purple leaves that reflect light and create an impressive display.
• Bromeliads: The showy bromeliad is the epitome of tropical aesthetic and is available in a wide range of striking colors and textures. This epiphyte (or air plant) is even more mesmerizing as it doesn’t require soil; it can hang off of trees and suspend in mid-air, giving off a unique jungle vibe.
  
• Moth Orchids: These sophisticated plants offer blooms that can last for months, providing tropical elegance to any space for long periods of time. The flowers are exotic and brightly colored, available 70 species and countless cultivars that can thrive indoors.
• Potted Palms: One of the best ways to create a Florida landscape in your atrium or lobby is by adding multiple varieties of palms. These plants are synonymous with this region, and their green fronds can range from desktop varieties to large showplace pieces.
• Bamboo: There is perhaps nothing more zen than a forest of bamboo, which is actually a subfamily of tall, thick treelike grasses. These woody-stemmed evergreen perennials can range from a few feet tall to over 10 stories, making them an impressive addition to high-ceiling areas with ample light.
• Hibiscus: These flowering trees and plants feature large, showy blooms with vibrant colors ranging from white to pink, red, blue, orange, peach, yellow, or purple.
• Palm Trees: If you are filling an atrium or grand entrance, soaring palm trees are the perfect addition to fill the space with pure Florida personality. You can also choose smaller varieties – such as pygmy palms – to achieve the same aesthetic. Banana palms offer broad leaves and interesting fruit clusters that are sure to entice guests.
  

Selecting the Right Combination of Tropical Plants

If you are responsible for creating an interior landscape for your commercial property, don’t worry. You don’t have to go it alone! The professionals at Tropex have decades of experience installing indoor plants for a wide variety of commercial properties from airports to corporate offices.

Call today to schedule an initial consultation. We will work with you to design an installation that reflects your brand and vision. After plant selection, our experts will perform the installation, cultivate the plants and provide ongoing maintenance. Your plants will always look healthy and lush – in fact, if we ever notice that a plant is not doing well, it will be removed and replaced.

Tropex is Sarasota’s premier provider of plant leasing services for short and long-term installations.