If you’ve come into Retreat looking for a hardy houseplant, we’ve probably offered up the snake plant. Most of the time, when we point it out, you all nod in recognition. Everyone has seen a snake plant before, and for good reason! This plant is super easy going, can thrive on neglect, and will remain happily root-bound. This plant often frequents the top of easy-to-care-for plant lists. Who doesn’t want an easy-going, light-flexible plant? Snake plant is a great versatile plant to add to any collection.
We’ve featured the Snake plant before, and you can check out the blog post about it here: http://retreatinteriors.com/meet-the-sansevieria/
That post will give you helpful tips and tricks on snake plant care!
This week, we got our hands on more varieties of snake plant. We thought it would be fun to take a closer look at some of these. Sansevieria boasts something like 70 different plant varieties, over 10 of which are commonly grown. Today, we will look at four of those! Sansevieria will be our plant of the week for March 3, 2019 – March 9, 2019. Enter to win a Snake plant during this week on our Instagram and Facebook accounts. For this week only, we will also be giving discounts for 20% off any sansevieria purchase.
Some types of Sansevieria we currently have in the shop:
The Sansevieria Zeylanica features a dark green leaf with a interesting, almost animalistic stripe pattern. It’s spear-like shape is easily recognizable as your traditional, classic snake plant.
The Sansevieria Laurentii is very similar in appearance to the Sansevieria Zeylanica in that it has that similar spear-shaped leaf. It is a brighter green, and it is recognizable by the yellow outline around each of its leaves.
Sansevieria Fernwood looks similar to the Sansevieria Zeylanica in coloring, but it has cute narrow leaves that almost look cylindrical. As the plant grows the leaves begin to open up. Look at one of these plants in the shot and you’ll see where they start to uncurl.
The Sansevieria Boncel is one of our more unusual varieties of Snake Plant that we carry. Their dense fan-like shooting leaves makes it an amazing addition to any collection. They are a little top-heavy, so they need to be well propped.
So there you have it! Four varieties of snake plant. Now which one would you choose?