We're blessed to live so close to Florida. The prices of tropical interiorscape plants are half of what someone in Chicago would pay. However, it's still best to ask at the garden center if the plants have been acclimated.
Many tropical plants sold cheap off the back of a semi are fresh off the nursery plot in Florida.
The plants cost much less but will do poorly or die if they're not acclimated, or slowly grown in successively darker conditions to get them used to an indoor environment. Leaves of nonacclimated plants will turn yellow and drop off a few weeks after you take them home unless you get them acclimated yourself. Interiorscape plant care easy Watering and fertilizing interiorscape plants aren't hard. And indoors, fertilize at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day. Fertilize at one-fourth the strength the manufacturer recommends.