Banana Tree If you want something more grandiose that is on trend, Carlie Paluzzi raves about the variegated banana tree, a tropical tree you can grow as a houseplant.

Lockdown brought on a wave of nostalgic video gaming, the sourdough-starter craze and now, ambitious indoor landscaping with many investing in space-stealing trees and exotic shrubs.

The final part of our best-new-plants-of-2025 series concludes with a look at some of the top new trees and shrubs debuting this season.

Fruiting and non-fruiting varieties present a banana-rama of appearances: green-leafed, red-leafed, variegated, giant, dwarf. The tree -- an herbaceous shrub, actually -- is almost entirely leaf.

The Atwells have added a banana plant with variegated leaves to their living room for, well, variety. You won’t get fruit in our cold climate, but it makes an attractive houseplant. porjai ...