Tropical plants blog and online shop
GROWING TROPICAL HOUSE PLANTS INDOORS
Tropical house plants info, care, ideas and inspiration. Aloha feeling as a part of living!
Now complete with a tropical house plants shop. Also travel guides for tropical plants lovers and reviews of best tropical garden hotels for your vacation time.
LATEST BLOG POSTS
The Mystery Unraveled: How to Keep Your Alocasia Thriving

Alocasias, with their stunning foliage and tropical allure, they have captivated plant enthusiasts around the world. But let's admit it, they can be a bit mysterious when it comes to their care ...
Universal plants care guide for green fingers

Hey there, green thumbs! Are your fingers green enough? Or are you one of the people posting questions like “Why are my plants not doing well?” or “What am I doing wrong?” Keep reading and you’ll ...
Plant light setup, budget-friendly and easy

The winter is coming! Here in Stockholm, Sweden, on our Alaskan altitude it’s going to be long and dark as every winter here. However, this winter looks like we are going to deal with unusually high ...
Hoya plants: info, care, shopping, species… all you wanted to know

What is the first house plant you remember from your childhood? Mine is Hoya. The plant grown all over our living room's window looked huge to little me. It was quite regularly in bloom and I loved ...
Dreams come true – my life on a tropical island

Have you ever played with a thought of quitting your 8-to-5 day job and moving to tropics? You feel fed up sometimes with winter, snow, cold and darkness during a considerable part of the year? Half ...
360 VR garden and greenhouses tours

Whenever I travel to a new place I always try to visit local botanical garden and to do a blog post about it. So far I've been only taking photos and sharing my impressions in written. From now on ...
TROPICAL PLANTS TO GROW INDOORS
What this is all really about. Plant info, indoors care and growing ideas for creating your own piece of tropics.
TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDENS AND GREEN HOUSES
Places for quick escape to tropics and to get an inspiration for your own growing.
Whenever I travel to a new place I always try to visit local botanical garden and to do a blog post about it. So far I've been only taking photos and sharing ...
Our last day of Costa Rica trip definitely wasn't a lazy one. We woke up early to meet our new local friend Erick Matamoros - a great freelancing photographer ...
Having a stopover in the third busiest airport in France, Nice Côte d'Azur Airport? Or spending your vacation on French Riviera? Plan a couple of hours before ...
GUIDES TO TROPICS
Not all tropics are created equal. Find here where and when to go for vacation if you are a tropical plants lover.
Knowing where and when to go in Costa Rica can make all the difference to your vacation there. Wet, or as they call it green and dry seasons are an obvious ...
BEST TROPICAL GARDEN HOTELS AND RESORTS
A plant lover travelling to tropics should consider staying at a hotel where garden is taking seriously.
4-stars hotel with 41.000 sqm (10 acres) of sustainable tropical garden to explore in San José, Costa Rica. More than 1000 tropical plant species.
TROPICAL HOUSE PLANTS SHOP
Online shop for tropical plants you can grow indoors.
SHOP YOUR INDOOR TROPICAL PLANTS ONLINE
What is it site for?
I’m sharing here my passion for growing exotic tropical plants. Making it to a life style, to a part of home design.
Why tropical plants indoors?
Typical for dream holiday destinations, those plants are exotic for most of us. They will give a touch of Aloha feeling to any house.
Who am I?
Alex Mielnikau, crazy tropical plants lover at your service. Hobby grower, photographer, blogger with some selective university education in botany and tropical coastal ecosystems.
Where can you grow?
I grow palms, Plumeria, Heliconia, bananas, pine apples and much more in a tiny, by many standards, flat in Stockholm, Sweden (Alaskan latitude). So you can do the same anywhere!