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  • About
  • Essential Plant News
  • The Ikigai Way of Life
  • Care of Snake Plant

Welcome to Ikigai Plants

Austin Perry, Nursery and Social Media Manager

Austin is passionate about plants and strives to provide the best care for all of our plants (especially our snakelets!). He has excellent customer service skills and will seek the answers to all your questions. 

Toni Colley-Perry, Founder

I am dedicated to providing exceptional service to every customer. I am committed to sharing knowledge about our plants and services. I am always ready to answer any questions or concerns.

Future Snake Plants

Future Snake Plants

Seeking ways to educate our community about the many ways snake plants and others can provide a sense of ikigai while improving the air we breathe indoors. Ikigai Plants is a business that is dedicated to make a difference in bedrooms and offices where we spend the majority of our time.

Our Story

Our Founder

As an educator for over 25 years. I am a thriving life long learner committed to the principals of ikigai. As a Peace Corps Response Volunteer, I have had the opportunity to live with two amazing families, each of whom had a succulent garden that they daily maintained, but neither had plants in their home. Over thirty years ago, in 1989, NASA published a study that documented and identified which houseplants could purify the air and provide oxygen at night. As I traveled the streets of Peru, I found that the snake plant lined the streets but yet no plants were in the homes I visited. I have discovered a new purpose in life to educate our community about the benefits of these amazing plants whose reason for being is to simply provide oxygen and purify the air we breathe.

Snake Plant is Native to West Africa

I spent last year as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer serving Saint Lucia in the Eastern Caribbean in the West Indies. I transferred to Lima, Peru, for six weeks. It was during my stay in Peru that I rediscovered a plant which i have known as a snake plant. In Saint Lucia, it is known as the mother-in-law's tongue. The snake plant is native to tropical West Africa. I have since learned that it is a plant that has several scientific names, first being Dracaena trifasciata, and second, Sansevieria laurentii, both are said to be of the Asparagaceae family.

Snake Plant is called by many names

In Saint Lucia the Snake Plant is called Mother-in-Law's tongue 

In Lima, Peru it is said that the British gave the name

Lima, Peru they call the Snake Plant Mother-in-Law's tongue too.

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