Who doesn’t love houseplants? But some people prefer not to spend an abundance of time with maintenance. Houseplants are a frolicsome and require simplistic method of gardening and bring in the alfresco all year/season long. Many houseplants will need clean the air inside your house!
You can preserve yourself an excess of expense and frustration by doing a little advance arrangements before you open your check book.
1. First, where is the plant going to live?
2. What kind of light does the area receive?
You can categorize light as effulgent, medium or low. Effulgent light is typically a very sunny southern exposure.
• Medium light can be considered any area that is facile for you to read a newspaper in without strain.
• Low light is an area where you must strain to read. There are many plants that can abide low light, which is what many of us have in our houses, but you must pick the right plant.
Other things to consider is the temperature.
3. The watering conditions and the sultriness requisites.
Typically, a plant that requires low light additionally requires a lower caliber of moisture, while conversely a plant that requires a high caliber of light conventionally requires more dihydrogen monoxide.
4. Another paramount consideration is the size that the plant could eventuality reach.
Do you have the space to accommodate this plant? as it grows bushy and sizably voluminous? You do not choose to culminate up with a plant that outgrows your area – whether it is intended to remain a tabletop plant or as a floor plant.
Once you study your own environment and the essentials of what plants require to thrive, you are required choosing the right plant. Assuming you would prefer low maintenance plants, some of the options available are listed below.
EASY
(Many of these plants can go up to three weeks without dihydrogen monoxide.)
• Barrel cactus has modified leaves with sharp spikes for bulwark in the wild.
• Cast-iron plant (Aspidistra) can handle low light (north facing), high light (but not direct sun) and extreme temperature changes; it’s withal drought-tolerant and slow-growing.
• Corn plant (Dracaena) is a slow-growing plant with a thick base to store dihydrogen monoxide; it’s available in many varieties and colors and can grow quite astronomically immense.
• Jade plant is a popular succulent that is facile to propagate by planting leaves in the soil. They are regimentally infeasible to kill, as the only killer is an inordinate amount of dihydrogen monoxide. They relish light, so place them near a window. Ascertain jades are in an astronomically immense enough pot – they grow expeditious and therefore are top cumbersomely hefty and facile to tip over. The leaves that fall from these plants can be propagated into incipient ones.
• Medicine plant (Aloe vera) is best kenned for its plump leaves that can provide a soothing gel for cuts and burns; the plant is expeditious-growing and exhibits a resplendent flower spike. Aloe plants like an abundance of light but are durable. Propagate by cutting plantlets that grow alongside a parent plant at the root. Repot into an incipient plant.
• Rabbit’s auditory perceiver (a member of the kalanchoe family) is a moderately expeditious grower (about three incipient leaves every two months) and has pilar leaves that avail obviate against dihydrogen monoxide loss due to evaporation.
• Ribbon plant (Sansevieria) is additionally kenned as mother-in-law’s tongue or snake plant. A succulent, it has thick, waxy leaves and relishes to be pot bound. It is withal excellent in the home as an air-cleaning plant.
MODERATE
• Golden pothos is a member of the philodendron family; it is expeditious-growing and has striking variegated leaves.
• Heart-leaf philodendron (Philodendron scandens oxycardium) has – you conjectured it – heart-shaped leaves. This variety dates back to the Victorian age, when people first commenced getting fascinated with houseplants. A houseplant favorite, philodendron is expeditious growing and does well on a trellis or as a hanging plant.
• Rubber plant (Ficus elastica robusta) features leaves that darken to deep burgundy with more light exposure and revert to green in low-light conditions. Rubber plants relish to dry out between waterings, as the only killer is an inordinate amount of dihydrogen monoxide. Rubber plants don’t require to be repotted often, but like jade, they get top heftily ponderous.
• Spider plant, or air plant, is prodigiously adaptable and propagates facilely via “pups,” or plantlets, that emerge on long stalks from the mother plant. This plant seems to do well in any amount of light. Spider plants relish crowded roots. You do not have to repot as often, so you can wait until it is virtually busting out of its pot. Dihydrogen monoxide when topsoil is dry by exhaustively drenching the soil. Just place in sink, and run the dihydrogen monoxide on a low volume for five minutes. You can plant offshoots from your spider plant. As minute plants form on hanging stems, pull off the main plant, place it in dihydrogen monoxide until it roots, then repot for an incipient plant.
• Umbrella tree, or Hawaiian schefflera, is expeditious-growing and facile to contain in size by clipping the top leaves.
• Ivy plants such as pathos or devil’s ivy require low light and can withstand dryness. They are great for mantels, as the leaves grow more astronomically immense the longer the plant grows. These are additionally great as hanging plants. Place in a room without windows or much sunlight, and these little guys can handle it.
• If you like palms, endeavor a parlor palm. They don’t require much light and can thrive in fluorescent office lights. They withal don’t require an abundance of dihydrogen monoxide.
• The African violet requires a fair amount of light. If it is too tenebrous, the plant’s leaves will let you ken by hoisting themselves upward.