A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2005 Where Can I Buy A Rubber Tree Plant?

My friend has this rubber tree that touches her ceiling. And I LOVE it!!!
I don’t want to buy on already that big but I don’t want to get a small one.
I tried looking it up on the net and no luck.
Where can I buy this plant at?
And do you know if they are hard to care for?

Lowes will often have them. I think I've seen them a couple of feet tall or more.

home depot and believe it or not stop and shop sometimes has them

Well I've got

'High Hopes'

that you will find one

If you don't get that, then I am showing my age

Sorry, I just think of that song whenever I hear rubber tree plant

But seriously, they are really cool plants, I'd like to run across one too.

I have a rubber tree plant that I rescued from the plant section in our local grocery store....got it on clearance too....It's about 4 feet tall right now.....Like everyone said they are pretty easy to come across in Lowes or Home Depot....Hope you find one!!!!

laura

I got mine at a greenhouse next to a funeral home. I've seen them in EVERY greenhouse i've been to at one point or another, so i don't think you'll have a hard time finding one they like lotsa light, but they can survive in pretty low light. They'll just be a little "floppier" and viny if they don't get as much light.

But ya, you can get itty bitty ones in 3" pots. Most of the ones i've seen come 3 per pot though. So what i did was i bought a small one in an 8" pot where each of them were about 6" tall. Then i separated them in a dish of water. Then a few months later it recovered and started putting out leaves ^.^ I immediately put mine in a GIANT 16" p ot when i planted it though. You can see it in my webshots if ya want Those pictures are pretty out of date now though. It has about 7 or 8 new leaves on it right noww ^.^ As soon as i got it into a window that faces the sunrise, it thickened right up from a pencle to a marker size!

Hope my rambeling helps good luck!
~Phoebe

Thanks everyone, I will have to stop by one of those stores and get a rubber plant.
My boyfriend offered to buy my friends rubber plant that touches her ceiling but she wouldn’t come off of it! haha It was worth a shot.
I just love plants, my ex boyfriend used to say that I brought home plants was like bringing home stray dogs. haha
I got one big palm from my work and it is huge, but nobody was caring for it here at my work so I rescued it and now it is beautiful! It even buds big white flowers.

Nako you have tons of plants!! They are ALL so beautiful!!! I can’t wait until I have that many.
I really like the Alocasia plant and the Spider plant. I would like to have those I have never heard of either one though.

Is a Venus flytrap hard to care for? They are so interesting I kind of want one but I know nothing about them.

You may have better luck with a flytrap than i do >.o i've had about 4 or 5 so far, and they've all died one way or another. I figured out that you're not supposed to pull the dead leaves off, but just clip the ends where they're black, and that got me my first one from a cutting! but then a worm ate it! GRRRRR! I was looking at it one day, and it was a lil bitty cute flytrap just growing there, and the next day it was gone... so i picked it up and there was this little tiny yellow worm eating it! NOOOOOOOO! so ya, i threw that one out before it got to any of my other carnivorous plants lol.

I have a nepanthes bicalcarata if you wana see that sometime! I still gotta take a picture of its new pitchers lol

~Phoebe

I will probably pass on the Venus flytrap then bc Im sure I wont have any good luck with it. I killed my Aloe plant and I have no idea how?

In the spring Walmart usually has rubber tree plants. They always have smaller size 'trees'. I haven't been out to mine for a few weeks, but they may already be getting them in.

We bought a palm tree at Walmart one year. We paid $6.99 for it. It was just a small bush, maybe two, or three, feet high. Now it is at least 6 feet high at its highest point. It's been fun watching it grow.

Francine