be honest!!!

Get what looks good to you. It doesn’t matter what others think.

I love variegated plants but totally agree with Dave. Get what you like since you're the one who has to look at it and care for it. Mike, did you buy a new variegated plant?

Yes my friend Liz! My rubber plant is a variegated one. The person who sold it to me said it’s a variegated fiddle leaf but I was tricked. It was a rubber plant! Then all along I thought it’s a tineke but it looks like a ruby? but the old leaves are cream in color so I am still a little confused. I really like it a lot but the leaves are damaged due to hail storm

Beautiful plant, Mike!! Personally, unless we're talking succulents (I'm not a fan of variegated succulents), I always prefer variegated plants. They're SOOO beautiful. I generally am not too interested in Monstera deliciosa, but the variegated version is one of my dream plants. Here are some of my favorite variegated plants I've had! :D

Epipremnum aureum 'Marble Queen'

Hedera helix 'Mint Kolibri'

Plectranthus scutellarioides

Mike, in your other thread I said I didn't like fiddle leaf figs, but I do like the variegated rubber plants. Almost bought both the Tineke and Altissima online but am tired of paying shipping, so I need to find them locally instead. Great choice!

Daxeek, beautiful plants, especially the Plectranthus!

thanks @daxeek! unfortunately that plant wont stay like that for long. I have to prune it to get rid of the leaves that got damaged. I hope it works... I’ve never done it before!

the mix in that Kolibri is crazy! almost half white half green!!!

Best of luck finding them locally @Liz! Dont get tricked like me! It’s not as easy as identifying a cabbage from a lettuce...

Pardon me, but I don't see any Plectranthus on this thread. This last pic looks like a varied group of Coleus(es), (non-variegated) which I believe are related to Plectranthus.

Depends on the leaf shape! If it's a simple shape, like in a pothos, variegation add interest. But for leaves with interesting shapes I enjoy seeing it in solid green. For example, variegated hoya kerri do not show off the heart shape as well. But of course, that's person preference. It's been hard finding any hoya plants that aren't "zombie leaves" so despite my preference, I would still take a variegated one if I saw one for the right price.

The genus Coleus has been reassigned to Plectranthus and Solenostemon.Coleus

At first I wasn’t a fan of variegated plants,that’s all changed now.

My wishlist is for a variegated Christmas Cactus and the Monstera at the moment.

yes variegated monstera!!! so expensive but wow!!!

@daxeek your plectranthus looks out of this world!

I usually prefer variegation, but some forms of variegation just look like a disease to me. Some forms of variegation are unstable/unreliable. I won't waste $ on variegated Tradescantia fluminensis or 'Pink Princess' Philodendron again. (Easy to say with none here in front of me...!)

@Tiffany me too! I am not liking variegations which are not white or cream... I dont like it when the leaf is with pink or orange or if the variegation is like a border like in a corn plant or a spider plant! i also dislike speckled variegation. the most stunning variegation i’ve seen is in a peace lily picasso! that is so cool!

Each eye has its' own preferences, no doubt. Just send those pink & orange ones my way. LOL! I wish your eyes could see Dracaenas through mine for a minute....!

Oooooo, Peace Lily 'Picasso' is too pretty!!!! You all have to stop mentioning these gorgeous plants, my wishlist will be a mile long. T_T

I'm curious -- what do you all think of the variegation on Hypoestes phyllostachya? (Not my photo, of course)

@daxeek the leaves look like strawberries but then again i’m not a fan of red or pink or orange leaves :)

@dexeek The polka dot plant (hypoesetes) is a real drama queen. The moment the potting mix starts to get dry, it droops and shrivel up like it's on it's last leg, but the moment I water it, it bounces back like nothing's happened. I found out the hard way that if it gets too much light, the pink variegation disappears on the new growth. I had to too close to one of my leds and all the new leaves came in green with very little pink. I get it back drastically , moved the location and the new growth is coming in normal.

@Moonflower, really? I have two that were in horrible shape when I found them (they were 50 cents each, because they were extremely etiolated, lots of gross wet brown leaves and yellowing, rootbound, etc.) that I've been rehabilitating. I've never seen them shrivel like you're describing?

The only time I've had an issue is when I left them in direct sunlight for 4+ hours when they weren't used to it, and they drooped horribly then. But they were back to normal within a few hours after that. They may look slightly weaker when thirsty, but nothing too severe. That's strange!

@daxeek Not my video, but here's a time lapse someone else took of their polka dot plant drooping and then reviving after a watering.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsL2lqiCENkFor etiolated plants, I've had very good luck with pruning them back all the way to the first (or first two) set of leaves. I'm still playing with how much light they are happiest with, enough to grow bushy and strong but not too much to reduce the pink. The light from my windows are unreliable so I have LED panels over my grow racks, right now, the hypoestes is getting approximately 400 FC of light for 10 hours a day + the morning sun (which is the only sun that makes it through the leaves).

Here a mild version on what happens to variegation with too much light, notice only half the leaf is dotted? Some leaves lost almost all the pink, I took those off.

Here is what grew in after nipping the green only leaves and putting it back in lower light. Lots of pink again!