If you have room, you might also try a Swiss cheese plant or fiddle-leaf fig.

The Fiddle-leaf Fig in the palm house is one of the oldest remaining plants in the conservatory.

Those that need ample quantities include jade, dwarf orange, pony tails, pittosporum and fiddle-leaf fig.

Right now," she reveals, "we are seeing fiddle-leaf figs rise in popularity, which could be linked to the appearance of one in the HQ of Céline.

Ficus lyrata, commonly known as the fiddle-leaf fig, is a species of fig tree, native to western Africa, from Cameroon west to Sierra Leone.

Owner of Garden Life Nursery, Josh Yaqab shows off his fiddle-leaf figs to prospective buyer Georgina Ryan.

"On the other hand, the Ficus ly rata adapts easily and holds its leaves quite well," Mr. Frieling said of the handsome plant also known as the fiddle-leaf fig.

Enforcing its status as the "it" plant of 2013, the influential garden design blog Gardenista declared the fiddle-leaf fig the "Plant of the Year" recently, adding "it was probably last year's, too."

Described on the Burke's Backyard online glossary as "hardy and almost unkillable," the fiddle-leaf fig (named because its leaves resemble the base of a violin) is described by Mr Yaqab as "a low-maintenance and aesthetically sublime wonder."

Ficus Pandorata (Richard Kelton) is Quark's Spock-like science officer and is a "Vegeton", a member of a race of sentient plant life (Ficus pandorata or pandurata is better known as Ficus lyrata, the fiddle-leaf fig).