Best indoor plants for your home

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

• Should not be kept in an AC environment
• Needs good ventilation and sunlight, so indoor means you still need to have access to good air passage and filtered sun rays.
• Should not be water them every day
• Absolutely must have a day in the sun, or days in the sun according to their leaf density.
• Must have a tray below them and when the tray is full, you need to put it back to the plant. If the tray is empty, water the plant.
• Need the right amount of water. When watering, remember that less water can dry the soil and the plants, and too much water can rot the roots.

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Here is the list of best indoor plants:

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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