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Introducing Prismacolor ‘Zigzag’, the perfect philodendron for showcasing your edgy style. This plant is as much a sculptural delight as it is a low maintenance green companion. It has distinctive, wide leaves with deeply-lobed, zig-zagged edges. New leaves emerge in bronzey-red with purple undertones, and mature over time to shiny, dark green. Medium to bright light and the occasional leafshine will keep your ‘Zigzag’ looking vibrant and sharp.
Meet Prismacolor ‘Golden Girl,’ a philodendron that’s as good as gold. She has elongated, lance-shaped leaves with toothy edges. Her shiny, bright green leaves are flecked in golden variegation. On occasion, pops of red, bronze, or orange will adorn her leaves, stems, and sheaths. Given the proper support, such as a moss pole, ‘Golden Girl’ will ascend skyward on her quest for a golden crown. Like other philodendrons, ‘Golden Girl’ is adaptable to her environment & easy to care for; bright, indirect light will result in the most pronounced variegation.
ColorFull® ‘Orbifolia’ wants to be at the center of your universe. With its broad, rounded leaves akin to “orbs” and elegantly striped in silvery-green, it demands your admiration. If you give this iconic Calathea the conditions it craves, it will dazzle you with its Instagrammably good looks. ‘Orbifolia’ has the potential to grow quite large over time, but please remember that this is one of the thinner-leaved varieties of calathea, therefore, it may be less tolerant of tap water and may require higher humidity to prevent leaf edges from turning brown and crispy.
‘Ruffled Arrow’ is a leatherleaf fern with striking presence! Its heavily-divided, arrow-shaped fronds boast serrated or “ruffled” edges, and a bright lime green highlight down the center, adding depth, dimension, and just a touch of variegation to its medium green foliage. The thick, leathery texture of each frond ensures durability and a unique feel, living up to its common name–”leatherleaf” fern.
Meet Twilight Tassel™, a moody take on the classic Rabbit’s Foot Fern. It won’t bring you good luck, but it does have fuzzy rhizomes that creep along the soil’s surface like the feet of rabbits. From those pettably soft rhizomes, lacy fronds emerge in the reddish shades of sunset before deepening into a rich, glossy green–like the last light fading below the horizon at twilight. Keep your Twilight Tassel™ out of direct sunlight and evenly moist for best performance.
Look for elongated, teardrop leaves that emerge in burgundy-red velvet and harden to nearly black, traversed by clean white longitudinal veins with minimal lateral bridging—a hallmark of the Black Widow line. Pink-tinged leaf reverses add a final layer of contrast.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
‘Sword Dance’ is a staghorn fern, aptly named for its strappy, elongated fronds that are akin the blades of a sword. Swaying together, these fronds are embellished with tiny scale-like hairs that give a silvery, felted appearance and help ‘Sword Dance’ absorb nutrients and retain moisture. That said, avoid using leaf shine products or wiping away this layer of fuzz. In nature, staghorn ferns typically grow as epiphytes on the surface of other plants, such as clinging to the crook of a tree. Consequently, they don’t require much soil fertility, can thrive in diffuse or indirect sunlight, and prefer to dry out completely in between watering. ‘Sword Dance’ is a more compact, bushy staghorn for any plant lover hoping to incorporate a touch of pre-historic intrigue into their home.
Embrace the beauty that befalls a snowy morning, all year-round, with BeautiFall ‘Snowy Morning’ Pothos. ‘Snowy Morning’ features trailing or climbing vines of heart-shaped leaves that are delicately marbled in shades of green, white, creamy-yellow, and every permutation in between. ‘Snowy Morning’ is resilient and easy-to-care-for, adapting to most any light levels in your home. However, it will display the showiest and snowiest variegation if given plenty of bright light.
Grace can be found with the unfurling of each leaf of ‘Like a Prayer.’ This calathea or prayer plant, has rounded leaves poised atop dark-colored stems. The leaves are adorned in a mesmerizing pattern of concentric circles in alternate brushstrokes of light green and dark green. The midribs are a contrasting shade of pink, and the undersides are a rich shade of burgundy-purple. As daylight wanes, the leaves fold up ‘Like a Prayer’.
Here’s a Fittonia, or nerve plant, that deserves a ‘Primetime’ spot in your lineup! This low-growing, creeping plant has petite leaves of bright, lime green, etched in veins of contrasting coral pink. It’s an absolute showstopper in a terrarium or a bright, humid spot!
Expect long, teardrop leaves that arrive in luminous red velvet, mature toward dark green, and carry pink-to-white venation across the blade with pink-tinged reverses—an expressive, color-forward Premier.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
Expect slightly elongated leaves with reflective red velvet emergents, pink-tinged veins, and pink leaf reverses set against deep green mature foliage. One of the most sought-after Premier pairings in the DocBlock portfolio.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
Crystal Red™ ‘12’’s vivid primary-red emergent leaf married to the silver-and-red venation of Zara™ ‘14’.
New leaves arrive in saturated red velvet, often showing the Crystal Red signature “red eye” at the petiole. As leaves harden, expect dark green blades laced with silver and red veins along the T-shape pattern Crystal Red is known for.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
Ships in a 12 cm white ceramic pot.
Why pick just one pothos when a mix can share a jar? This Beautifall® gathers a random mix of 2 or more pothos ( Epipremnum aureum ) cultivars into a single leafjoy® H2O® vessel, so marbled greens and clear jade spill over one cork collar together. Grown in water instead of soil, with roots on open display through the glass, it asks for little more than a topped-up jar and a bright spot out of direct sun. No two are quite alike, which is rather the point.
Begonia maculata ‘Obsidian’ rocks a look as sharp as the volcanic glass it is named after. This dark, dramatic cane begonia flaunts asymmetrical, wing-shaped leaves of nearly black, growing atop bamboo-like shoots. Leaves have ruffled, serrated edges, and reddish undersides, which contrast strikingly with their dark green uppers. Like other “Angel Wing” or “Polka Dot” begonias, ‘Obsidian’ is spotted with silvery speckling.
Every leaf on Anthurium 'Renaissance' ( Anthurium hybrid ) is a painting: strokes of pink and splashes of cream on fields of multi-layered green. This bird's nest anthurium builds an upright rosette of glossy deep green brushed with cream and pale gold, and no two plants are marked alike, so we hand-grade them as low or high variegation and let you choose.
Low variegation plants will carry a mix of creamy dappling and fully green leaves.
High variegation plants will flaunt bold ivory sweeps, often with new leaves emerging in soft coral pink.
Give yours gentle, indirect light well back from a sunny window, keep the humidity up, and let the top of the soil dry between waterings. It arrives potted in a white ceramic cachepot.
One look at this white-veined Fittonia and you’ll be able to see where the common name “nerve plant” comes from. Like other nerve plants, ‘World Views’ features low-growing, creeping foliage with oval-shaped green leaves that have the distinctive veining one would expect to see on an anatomy diagram of the nervous system.
A foundational DocBlock™ cross combining the bright purple-to-red emergent leaf of Zara™ ‘14’ with the dark, regal foliage of Michelle™ ‘1’.
New leaves emerge in luminous purple to red and harden to deep green, accented by red and silver venation. Among the most coveted DocBlock™ pairings for its dependable color shift and velvety, heart-shaped form.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier™ is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
Ships in a 12 cm white ceramic pot.
A timeless choice for any plant collection is this ( Aglaonema commutatum ), Igneous® 'Timeless Tides'. This stunning houseplant boasts lanceolate green leaves generously adorned with widespread, silvery variegation, creating a beautiful marbled appearance that catches the eye. It looks luxurious, but 'Timeless Tides' is remarkably easy to care for, like the other Chinese evergreens in our Igneous® collection. It will tolerate a range of light levels, isn't picky about humidity, and is forgiving of inconsistent watering.
If there was a mashup between bananas and barnacles, you would end up with a ‘Bananacle’ Dracaena. Bananacle features strappy, sword-shaped leaves with banana yellow edges that curve around a central cane like bananas. Leaves are striped with green and creamy white down the centers. You’ll want to collect ‘Bananacle’ and the other Dracaenas in our collection, like barnacles on a ship!
This stunning, unusual Philodendron is nothing short of GLORIOUS! It is not an upright or climbing philodendron–rather, it creeps horizontally via rhizomes. In nature, ‘Gloriosum’ is found creeping along the jungle floor. It features rich green, velvety-soft, heart-shaped leaves with contrasting white veins. Leaves have the potential to grow quite large over time, making ‘Gloriosum’ truly glorious!
Step into the wild with ‘African Jungle’, a rex begonia with mounding, clumping leaves that capture all the vibrance of a sub-saharan rainforest. Each asymmetrical, deeply-serrated leaf is a riot of color, with plum-to-purple centers, shimmering splashes of silver & lavender, and rich green margins, edged in more purple. Red stems and under-veining also add another pop of color and dimension.
New leaves push in saturated red velvet, often retaining the Crystal Red “red eye” at the petiole, before hardening to deep green crossed by silver-to-red veins in a blended T- and X-shape pattern.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
Minerva™ ‘20’—an elongated, near-black Michelle-line selection—crossed with the silver-veined Zara™ ‘14’.
Expect long, dark velvet leaves with very clean, almost-white veins on a deep, shimmering background. The Zara influence broadens color contrast through red and silver venation as new leaves harden.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
Ships in a 12 cm white ceramic pot.
You’ll be sure to enjoy the low maintenance splendor that befalls BeautiFall® N'Joy Pothos. N'Joy has heavy cream-colored variegation on green leaves, much more pronounced that the marbling one might find on BeautiFall ‘Snowy Morning.’ Leaves on N'Joy are also spade-shaped, but slightly smaller and thinner than those of a typical pothos. For the most well-defined display of ‘N’Joy’s’ white margins, place her in bright, indirect light. Enjoy!
Introducing ‘Emerald Ripcurl’—a philodendron with multi-lobed, glossy green leaves that have all the spectacle of waves at sea. While the leaves of ‘Emerald Ripcurl’ (Philodendron squamiferum) have a totally unique shape, what sets this tropical philodendron apart from others, are the fuzzy petioles that turn to red over time. Therefore, this plant is sometimes referred to as a “hairy philodendron.” Under optimal conditions, the undulating leaves of ‘Emerald Ripcurl’ can reach up to 18 inches in length.
Anticipate moderately elongated, velvet leaves with narrow, well-defined venation and emergent color in the purple-to-red range that matures to deep, lustrous green. Strong growth habit makes this an approachable Premier for collectors.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
An intra-line Zara cross between the Zara™ ‘31’ and Zara ‘14’ selections.
Reinforces Zara’s defining traits: vivid purple-to-red emergent leaves and deep green mature blades veined in red and silver. A focused option for the collector who already values the Zara signature.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® houseplants showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.
Ships in a 12 cm white ceramic pot.
This pairing concentrates the cultivar’s most characteristic traits: bright purple-to-red emergent leaves, deep green mature foliage, and bold red-and-silver venation. A reference-quality selection for collectors building a Zara-centric Anthurium collection.
The DocBlock™ Premier™ collection from leafjoy® showcases premium hybrid Anthuriums born from decades of award-winning selective breeding by Dr. Jeff Block. Every Premier is seed-grown and visually distinct—no two plants are exactly alike. Your one-of-a-kind specimen will mature into a velvet-leaf beauty with hues that may range from deep red to rich purple to intense green, and venation patterns from silvery to white to pink-tinged.