Nathaniel said:
Any help is greatly appreciated! :thumb_up:
While I can't help with your current plant situation. I can suggest plants that work well indoors from personal experience. All of these are plants I have and love. I'm sure I'm missing some of my babies in this list since I'm walking around the place in my head only.
Any of the Vines:
Ivy plants,
hoya,
arrowhead, and
pothos. English Ivy in particular does just fine in low light as indicated by my favorite hole-in-the-wall bar. I had miles upon miles of these vining plants in my one bedroom apartment. I loved it. Brought in lots of green and life. Pothos will just go crazy, and roots easily in new pots from the vine.
Spider Plants Are pretty easy to get along with. They like bright indirect light for the best and fastest growth. But they'll tolerate low light just fine. Easy to spread, they send out little vines which will reach 12-24 inches looking for a spot to lay down some roots. Let this shoot grow into some soil in another pot for a couple weeks before cutting him off from the mother plant. Boom, easy propagation.
We'll get
Lucky Bamboo out of the way. It likes a rich loamy soil that is kept evenly moist. You can get it for dirt cheap and it propagates like CRAZY. Let each stem get a few larger shoots. Wait for them to get relatively healthy, cut them with a clean sharp knife, peel back and remove the lower leaves and let root in water. You can have a forest of 'bamboo' in a year.
You've got Parlor Ivy, Why not
Parlor Palm.
Peace Lillie will bloom multiple times a year.
Dieffenbachia: Clumps of upright leaf stems with larger leaves, companion in a large pot with numerous ivy or philodendrons plants, makes a cool effect. Similar effect can be had with
Anthurium, but pot seperately as this one likes moist soil
ZZ Plant Try to kill it, I dare you, I DARE YOU. Leave it in the unused kitchen where the only light it gets is when you cook and open the fridge in the middle of the night. Then remember to water it all of a sudden after 6 months of sheer neglect for it to spontaneously resurrect and say "Hi, miss me?"
Speaking of trying to kill plants the
Cast Iron Plant is only named that because it's tough (or it should be). Paradoxically: the more you mistreat it the happier it seems to be.
Snake Plant: Why should you have it? It's other name is "mother-in-laws tongue" :surprised
Ferns are an easy way to get a full bushy foliage plant inside. Companion plant with an upright plant that tolerates similar watering for an attractive pot. (fun fact: Ferns can have up to 630 chromosome pairs :shock: ) I have both Boston and Bird's Nest ferns inside.
Aglaonema: I actually just got this from Homo Depot this year. I LUUURRRRRRV the color. it seems to not be picky about watering.
Corn Plant does well in low light. You can find it in a clump or as a single stalk. it'll grow about 5' tall. This plant's attitude can be summarized as "meh"
Add
Peperomia to break up the smooth leaf cavalcade thus far. It has tectured leaves in rich colors to add easy to care for variety. There's a large variety of these plants that all look gorgeous.
Put a
prayer plant on your night stands in your room. Stays nice and contained, nice colored lines on a green and yellow/cream leaf. It does NOT like direct sun.
Dracaena or dragon plants. I don't have any of these because they're toxic to the furreh pets which seem drawn to chew on them, especially kittehs. I also don't like how open and spiky they are, I tend to prefer the softer plants that flow. But they do ok in an indirectly lit room without pets. Pretty tolerant of neglect
Speaking of softer plants,
Orchids These get a bad rap for being hard to care for, most people tend to over water them. Moth Orchids are pretty easy
Columnea likes darker rooms and has beautiful red flowers, Another easy going plant in my experience.
Mint does ok inside. Provides a nice subtle pleasing scent and you can pick at it for leaves to add to your tea.
Starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel that is my noggin...
Bromeliads are said to do ok indoors. I personally don't care for how they look generally. That said I do have a bunch of
Tillandsia or Air Plants. No soil, no pot, They just sit wherever and are content. Once a week I'll dunk them in a dish of some water for a few minutes, then sit on a waterproof surface until they dry up. Easy enough.
