Pick Me Ups

Oct 12, 2025

If you’re in need of a pick-me-up head over to bowtiqueplants on Instagram for beautiful plant photography and lots of vibrant colors—it’s a revitalizing mood boost.

Check out the big, full eruption of leaves on Aglaonema Pictum Tricolor. You’re not in the world of Minecraft—that camouflage look is just high contrast, blocky variegation. It elicited a “This looks like a painting!!!!” comment from jessylittleplants. Agreed. It brings back memories of paint-by-numbers kits where the brush (or the paint) was too chunky to execute the fine details but the result was always a one-of-a-kind, treasured work of art.

Alocasia Nobilis Aurea is another eye-catcher, in brilliant chartreuse, dark green, and cream. It looks like a marble tray. “Wow!! Vibrant colors” from arm.boretum nailed it—the leaf jumps right off the page. Exotic, prehistoric vibes abound and the bold cream-colored veins seal the deal. Wow.

What was a pinwheel doing, getting caught in a snowstorm? It’s not a pinwheel. It’s an overhead shot of Alocasia Bambino Variegated, a whorl of dark green leaves splattered with frosty white. As the caption says, “Colors speak louder than words.” You have to see it to believe it.

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