Spot these Indoor Plants Outdoors in Nature!

Look at this. Sansevieria planted outside in a tropical environment. It gets a little shade during the day. The leaves haven't fully leafed out yet so it's getting dappled shade and this has probably been growing here I'd say I don't know I'd say about four years or so possibly. You can see how it's been traveling along this foundation bed but it's just free to go. You see it's like spreading because it can. Isn't that amazing? This is a Sansevieria zylanica and it loves loves to be outdoors and there are some in pots too. And we're there and over there and they're coming out over to the driveway. Look at that. Rugan Villa is not normally an everyday house plant. If you have bright bright bright light in your home you'll probably grow this. I've tried it. I have failed but I have learned to appreciate the glowing bright intense fuchsia color in nature. This is where it wants to be. It loves crawling and climbing and blooming and budding. It's just one of those prolific flowering outdoor plants in nature that I just my eye always gravitates towards because it's so impressive. Look at this. This is like an glorious glorious explosion of I'd say fuchsia. Whenever I see something on the side of the road I automatically assume it's a free thing for me because if it's free it's for me. That's my motto but I like to ask first because it is on you know I don't know I'm not gonna take it I don't want to carry it but look it's a cool vintage window. I really just like the vertical what do you call them mullions mullions but I don't feel like carrying it. I will admit I don't know what what it's called what its actual common name is called but I will probably look it up and get a little closer to it to the reality of what it is but it has been here for a while. It's one of the survivors of this former bed of something at one point in time and it's doing really pretty well. It has a flower bud it has some new leaves like this one this is a very glossy. I hate to just refer to it like I feel like it feels like plastic but it does a little bit and it hasn't hardened off yet like this new leaf but it has a really interesting shape and then they'll they'll flush flesh out a lot of new growth when the spring comes. So that's what's going to happen with this it's already starting to do it and I'm glad this one survived because it's got a really interesting shape and it's actually pretty much in complete dapple shade here. So there's almost nothing better in the world than finding one of your favorite snake plants on the side of the sidewalk and this is a Sansevieria jaboa that has same thing it has kind of scattered around this corner here and it's mixed in with some asparagus fern which is really just kind of taking over this area I think but very soft little leaves here they have spines you see those spines so be beware if you want to touch an asparagus fern but the jaboa look I want to show you something with the jaboa that's over here bring me along here right see they tend to flop they do it in nature they do it out they do it indoors they do it outdoors you can flop sometimes so it's a natural thing they do so don't be alarmed if your jaboa just flops over sometimes yes well you don't you don't know I'm going to say it yet but this is a sago palm and you might not guess it if you're at all familiar with what a sago palm is it isn't really a palm it's a sidecad I'm losing track I'm losing my train of thought what I really want to point out is that this is on this very very long trunk this indicates that this is very mature it has lost all its foliage underneath as it develops more foliage on top so this is one of the tallest ones I've seen in this neighborhood and in all the little ones around it I'm trying to catch up with it this is the winner this is the clear by a hedge five heads a winner so I'm impressed with it I wish we can find one that's blooming if not if I can't find one I have a photo of one that was blooming a few blocks away from two years ago so I'll show you the amazing blooms that it produces as well this vine this is a jasmine and I'm always stopping to admire it well a because the flowers are so cute and pretty but the smell is you have to experience it somehow some way get near a jasmine and just like you'll just feel like maybe maybe you want to rub your body all over it I don't know just to get a little bit of that smell on your skin but it's a pretty prolific grower and it's worth it's worth it just for the smell I just love seeing thematophyllum bipinifidum I hope I'm saying it right this used to be called a philodendron but they changed the name to confuse everybody but these grow all around the roadsides and in fields and they and they like to call and creep and you can tell underneath here that this one came I'm not sure where it started maybe it started in the center and they crawl underground creep and they pop up above the ground and they just have these big serrated gorgeous leaves and you can see they're just stemming coming from the top of this really interesting looking barky stem they're coming down a little bit I'm going to show you like right down here you see how like little eyes like owl eyes they're really really pretty like look at that they look like owl eyes don't they I think so who thought of that I am stopping corny but they're just really tropical and it screams florida they're a little not not much not much farther down from the thematophyllum we have this stand of lady palm and this lady palm is acting and behaving a lot more like a ground cover than it is a shrub oops sorry so I'm I'm impressed what happened it probably started here along the driveway and creeping towards the street along with some vinca and some other some other ferns which you see everywhere so but you know how nature just wants to take over and when it can it does so I would say this is a little slightly invasive and very hard to control a little bit like bamboo but to stop them from creeping and entering different parts of your garden but still I'm impressed you're like you're like serious plants you want what you want the lady palm in my mind is supposed to look like it's full it's deep green it's a shrug form and it doesn't want to go anywhere but stay here it's kind of in the shade and it's living its best life right here yeah I spotted this crazy golden pothos up in this tree you see a lot of it is this vine but some of those leaves are gigantic and they're just split penetrated a little bit and they just kind of stuck on this big line I'm also looking for owls we planted this ficus audrey two years ago out here and it was just a scrawny little dinky three foot high maybe four foot high tree and now it has exploded in size it has gotten so wide so big and it gets full sun saying it's a beautiful giant tree now look at you audrey what you could do croton croton croton just something to say croton does so well outside it loves the bright light it loves the humidity it does I think a lot better outside than it does inside so you can see how this has grown this one's actually in pretty good shape it has leaves all the way to the bottom and it's very full it has really bright vibrant tropical colors and it's a very favorite a very favorite landscape plant as well as an indoor plant if you have the bright light and keep it clean and it also is combined between how I don't know if it's a contrast or not or is it clashing with the with the cordylines the Thai plants that are right behind it so again these really really like a lot of bright light plant spotting we're plant spotting again so this is an umbrella plant this is a variegated umbrella plant and again these plants are commonly planted as lower hedges and they have a really really nice shape when you don't cut them back and then the last one I want to show you is ginger so the ginger is a really interesting plant that has crazy beautiful green and yellow foliage look at these leaves it's a beautiful outdoor plant that you can also have as an indoor plant I don't actually have one in my collection yet but I'm not touching this leaf here because it looks gorgeous here when you're walking in a tropical area you'll often find large groupings of bromeliads like this so these are again maybe started from one to three plants maybe four and they just have this ability to multiply by growing outwards and they'll develop little offshoots and they'll just keep creeping along underneath this big beautiful palm tree and as you can tell this one is pretty much all sun so they have a wide range of survival tactics out of nature some of them like to be in more shade these have adapted really well in direct sunlight so you can see the vibrant colors in the center and there's a flower growing out right there right there which is really really beautiful so you'll keep your eyes open for bromeliads all over the place it's like a little side note but in this backyard of this great bungalow that we're staying at we found this monster that's climbing over the fence from the neighbor's yard and look at all these ridiculous crunchy aerial roots that are on this one lone stem that's coming over to here you got to come around and see this very mature monster relief so there is more of this plant on the other side of this fence i do not recommend going on other people's properties to look at plants or to definitely don't take any cuttings from anybody's properties but how wonderful is that we have a visitor of this monster who actually wants to live here so you're welcome to live here with us as long as this beautiful hedge is called it's a podocarpus hedge and i've always been fascinated by this evergreen because it doesn't really grow in the northeast and it grows prolific in the south and it grows very rapidly and can be trained and cut back to really provide a lot of privacy in a landscape and so it's widely used here as a landscape plant and when you don't trim it back it has a very interesting shape i'm sure we're going to find one that is left alone to have its natural form so you can see here it's dense you look inside here it's got like you know very very thick stems and and branches and a trunk and it just provides really great blockage and privacy that's why i love it and right behind this glorious podocarpus hedge in nature that we found in nature is this crazy ponytail palm and i actually questioned myself whether or not it is a ponytail palm or not but it is it has this crazy three-pronged trunk you see how it splits from the base and and then it goes into that very wide telltale sign that's a ponytail palm because the base is fat got a fat base and you can see how the top growth is coming up straight and then it's going to just fall down on the top and the lower leaves will continue to fall as the mop head gets bigger on top so this is old i don't i have no prediction on its age but it's been here for a these bungalows here in central florida have been here for a long time from 1920s so some of these plants could be that old i'm guessing come on in i have to show you another big house plant in nature well it's actually a landscape plant right now but it's outside in its natural environment and as you can see it has a support system it has probably very heavy leaves over here you can tell i can feel it i'm gonna try to lift it it's pretty heavy so instead of pruning back this gorgeous oversized palm they're supporting it so they can have an entryway that's kind of kind of free of foliage but it really isn't but it's really a lovely giant palm that comes really small when you get them when you get them they can be like this big and or this big and then they get this big it's tropical it's humid it's warm usually throughout the year here so bigger than this this one is absolutely stunning it's in great shape it has some new foliage coming from the center that's how they get tall see that there's one two three beautiful big stems and leaves coming up so you know they're it's a keeper