Miss the winter lazing in the garden? When it’s too hot outside, it’s time to bring the garden inside. Remember how mummy used place plants all over the house! Well, these days there are plenty of talks about environmentally friendly ‘green’ homes, so why not bring back indoor plants!!
Modern interiors with their clean and simple lines can be jazzed up with textural foliage and sculptural plants such as the Madagascar dragon tree (Dracaena marginata) and lady palm. On the other hand, the antique look is complemented best with flowers and soft, romantic ferns.
Indoor gardening is just as fun as having an outdoor garden. In fact, indoor plants not only help clean the close environment around them, but they act as a quick decorating tool. We found 6 hardy indoor house plants that anyone can keep alive and thriving.
Pothos or Money Plant
This has trailing stems and works well in a hanging basket or as a climbing plant. It can grow up to eight feet or longer, so just cut them back when they get too long and your plant will continue to look full and healthy. It can thrive in an array of lighting conditions and does brilliantly well in room temperatures.
Aloe Vera
This succulent plant with long pointed leaves has medicinal properties you probably know well from a variety of products available. It can grow up to three feet high. Aloe likes room temperatures and a good amount of sunlight as you might expect for a succulent plant, this prefers dry soil, so avoid frequent watering for the best result and keep it near the window for best results.
Spider Plants
These unusual-looking indoor plants add visual interest to a room, and they never fall out of fashion. Spider plants come in a number of varieties and work well as hanging place. Spider plants do well with evenly moist soil and bright or medium lighting conditions. Room temperatures of 15⁰C to 23⁰C keep them thriving. Keep them in colored stylish pots to make them look fancier.
Jade
For those who love the look of a succulent plant, needless to mention the ease of care, a jade plant offers thick, lush leaves and visually beautiful branches. It will grow slowly and will live from your kids' birth until their graduation. Jade plant does not require a lot of water, so keep soil somewhat dry, in ordinary room temperatures. They say Jade is also meant to bring good luck.
Rubber Plant
This easy-to-grow and most preferred indoor house plant will grow into an eight-foot-tall tree for a major pop of greenery in a room. If you prefer a smaller plant, just make your rubber tree into a shrub shape by pruning any long stems. The dark green leaves have a beautiful and attractive shine to them. Thrives most easily in room temperatures and less to very little light. Rubber plant has been ranked as the fourth-best plant by NASA in cleaning the room air.
Snake Plant
It doesn't get much easier than this indoor house plant. It has variegated leaves that grow upright, and some varieties' leaves have yellow or white edges. It has small white flowers that bloom only rarely. This indoor plant grows well in a whole range of lighting conditions. The air should be somewhat dry, as should the soil. Any normal room temperature should suit it just fine. The snake plant is also considered quite dangerous for kids and pets. Make sure they do not consume the leaves at any point as it could lead to choking.
Apart from fixing water-coolers and buying air-conditioners, bring home indoor plants to deal with summer. According to some nursery owners, other than the hardy plants, sale of the ornamental plants like petonia, salvia, lantenna, bouganvilla, dianthus, alamanda, Sonchafa goes up in the summer months as their green colour not just has a soothing effect on the eyes but the plants provide a cooling effect in the house by a process of transpiration.
