If your home isn't blessed with tons of square footage, that doesn't mean you can't flex your green thumb. All of these indoor plants take up minimal space and many even require less sunlight, which sounds great when you only have a few windows to work with. Most of these plants are fairly easy to keep alive. Your indoor garden paradise dreams are about to become a reality.
But before we start off with the list, lets answer a very important question: What are indoor/house plants?
It’s funny how so-called experts pass off sun guzzlers as indoor plants. It’s funny how Instagrammers bring in sun guzzlers for their indoor pictures. The traveller’s palm for instance is so often placed in decor shoots with no window in sight. Please remember even if it is brought in as a decor prop and will not survive in an area that has no natural light or good ventilation.
To elaborate further, your indoor plants
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Coffee Plant
Kentia Palm
Sturdy and elegant, and reminiscent of the sugarcane plant, the Kentia Palm is tolerant of a range of temperatures and flourishes indoors with access to filtered sunshine, and very good ventilation. Make sure the soil is moist. Kentia needs to be watered only when the top 1 to 2 inches of the soil is dry. Makes sure the plant is potted professionally, so that the drainage is right. Mist the leaves often. The key to maintaining a Kentia palm tree is to manage the shoots perfectly. You could pot two or more plants in a single pot – to ensure a varying level of palm leaves, for a beautiful tropical foliage look. And be kind, and only bring this palm home if you have adequate ceiling height – as these plants are known to grow really tall!
Anthurium
Snake Plant
Yucca Cane Plant
Asparagus Fern
PRO TIPS on indoor plant care
• Mist your indoor plants often. You will see the difference in the colour and texture of the foliage.
• All your indoor plants need to be outdoors – some need 1 day of outdoor time, while others need 4 to 5 days minimum ever week. If you are lucky to have an outdoor area for gardening too, buy two of everything you have indoors, and rotate them so that your home need never look bare when a plant is getting its outdoor time!
• Another reason to cluster is that there are certain areas of your home that are ideal for plants – windows and sunlight facing glass doors for instance
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