Top 20 Great Indoor Plants

Posted in Houseplant Advice on May 06, 2019

Best Indoor Plants

These are the top 20 houseplants that are great for improving your home and workplace ambience.

Fittonia A wide variety of colours are available of this leafy variegated plant. Tolerates bright and shady areas but will prefer bright non-direct light.
Yucca Yucca provide a dramatic architectural form in bright places. Yuccas enjoy full sun.
African Violet These bloom several times a year and provide vibrant colour. They like bright areas out of direct sun.
Spider Plant The plant that keeps giving. New ‘baby’ plants grow on long drooping stems. Each baby can be planted as a new plant for free. They like bright positions and weekly watering.
Peace Lily Peace lilies are relatively easy to grow and can tolerate low light areas but keep them out of direct sunlight. They like to be misted regularly and they will tell you when they need to be watered when the leaves droop.
Aloe These succulent plants have a cool dramatic appearance. They will thrive in bright areas and can tolerate erratic watering.
Dracaena Softly spiked, variegated, elongate leaves emerge from a central stem or stems. These pants can give you many years of pleasure in darker areas.
Calathea Grown for their dramatic variegated foliage of green, pink and red. Keep soil moist and grow in bright places out of direct sun.
Rubber Plant Big, broad, shiny leaves that give a dramatic large plant for large spaces.
Bromeliads There are many colourful varieties of these plants. They like regular watering onto the water collecting foliage.
Kalanchoe This succulent has broad fleshy leaves and produces bright efflorescence of flowers.
Phalaenopsis Orchid An orchid that likes low light but does not tolerate very dry conditions so needs watered weekly and misted regularly.
Philodendron These big leafy plants prefer shady areas and moderate to low watering.
Mother-in-Law’s Tongue This ‘tough to kill’ plant is also called the snake plant for its snake like leaves. They can go a month without water.
Schefflera Aka the umbrella plant has a bushy appearance and variegated foliage. It will fill large spaces with low light.
Arrowhead Vine The arrowhead plant can be grown alone or in a mixed planting for additional interest. Let it dry out between watering but mist the leaves regularly.
Cyclamen These plants flower profusely in the cooler months but with care can be persuaded to flower all year.
Anthurium This plant has broad bright green leaves and produces bright red, white, pink or orange spathe (modified leaf) flowers. Anthuriums need a high light out of direct sunlight. Water your anthurium thoroughly then allow it to dry slightly between watering.
Ficus Fig plants like bright light but not direct sun. Water weekly in spring/summer/autumn and reduce watering in winter.
English Ivy This trailing plant is ideal for foliage falling off tables or shelves and out of hanging baskets. It likes cool conditions and moist soil.