Houseplants selects high quality foliage and specimen plants, orchids, cactus, and hanging baskets. The selection varies each year. Last year there were more than 700 plants.

This year, we’re gong to try picking a group of plants that will appeal to children.

There will be lots of succulents--bromeliads with colorful leaves and some flowers--cacti without thorns but with wild shapes, cacti with thorns (to teach kids and parents to be careful), strings of pearls, rosary plants, burro’s tails, and pussy-toe kalanchoes (if we can find them!).

For everyone there will be orchids, some perfumed, but all beautiful. We’ll have several kinds of jasmine, shrub and vining, with amazing aroma all summer long, whether inside or outside.

We hope to get a few different colors of passion flower vines and indoor hibiscus and small citron trees (fruiting and flowering).

And as always, we’ll get many ferns, begonias, and African violets and anything that isn’t commonplace.