In Growing Healthy Houseplants, Ellen Zachos points out that many common houseplants are tropical plants, so-called because of nativity to tropics.
Maple Leaf Begonia (Begonia dregei): Popular houseplant is native to Tropic of Capricorn's South Africa but welcome outside homelands.
Biological Sciences Dept. greenhouse, Florida International University, Miami, southeastern Florida: Scott Zona, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Begonia_dregei_(Scott_Zona)_001.jpg
Spider plants, native to subtropical and tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia, have found new homelands worldwide, thanks to their graceful versatility.
Spider plants showcase in elevated spots or in hanging baskets.
Variegated leaf spider plant (Chlorophytum capense) is native to moist coastal South Africa: Maja Dumat (blumenbiene), CC BY 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/blumenbiene/6305466889/
A fun aspect of houseplants is selection of pots: Clay pots provide congruity while decorative pots may contribute colorfulness or styling.
USDA Zone 5; houseplants moved from greenhouse to home in Clinton, Michigan: F. D. Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/50697352@N00/15378481638
Self-watering pots may be effective containers for plants: Congenial philodendrons thrive in self-watering containers.
self-watering pots; Saturday, May 5, 2007, 16:11:20: endolith, CC BY SA 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/omegatron/667124258/
Light is a critical variable in growing healthy houseplants: some plants need placement near windows in full light; others are less demanding.
plant stand in living room: Va. Rose, CC BY-ND 2.0, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/suezeeb/15818649033/
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DerdriuMarrinerJan 28, 2025
And yet damaged, dead, diseased, dying plant parts sometimes afflict houseplants accommodated accurately and aesthetically.
What to do?
Some Unitedstatesians locate them for trash collection.
Damaged, dead, diseased, dying plant parts from my houseplants merit the fire pit, which nurtures surrounding grasses!
DerdriuMarrinerJan 27, 2025
Houseplanted philodendrons, in line with author Ellen Zachos' observation, prettify and proliferate prettily in self-watering pots.
And what would be something wonderful about working with self-watering pot-wending philodendrons (and other plants ;-D)?
One wonder would be correct water intakes without worries about clumsy spills or incorrect quantities!
DerdriuMarrinerOct 26, 2024
Do indoor plant-loving plantophiles remember their driveways and sidewalks for indoor plants outdoors-ing it during daylight hours? I line some plants all along both sidewalk sides.
The driveway meeting with the garage front might look nice with houseplants outdoors-ing it during daytime hours even as that meeting must allow movement, human- and animal-sentient-wise!
DerdriuMarrinerOct 23, 2024
All my houseplants delight in their counter, hanging and windowsill domiciles.
Do those plantophiles such as happynutritionist domicile mainly if not all outdoor plants because of more shade than sun?
Shaded indoors and outdoors from overcast, rainy skies exact extracting indoor plants to temporary daytime existences along the four house sides and along the garage front..
Sufficient unto the day is the outdoored houseplant thereof!
DerdriuMarrinerJun 16, 2015
But sometimes it may involve getting used to an environment whose conditions are not quite right since all plants respond to certain ranges in heat, light, moisture, and ventilation.
Or it may relate to houseplant-lovers who do not realize that the symptoms of over-watering can be the same as those of under-watering in terms of indoor cultivation.
Or even sometimes it may result from not being talked to enough by the plant's caregivers! ;-] !
MiraJun 11, 2015
DerdriuMarrinerJun 11, 2015
There appear to be any number of common names for Chlorophytum comosum even though houseplant-lovers in the U.S.A. almost entirely settle upon spider plant! The plantlets with adventitiously rooted new growths look to some like spiders hanging by web threads and to others like airplanes or a hen with chickens.
The need for a winter-time is something that some houseplant-lovers do not know or understand. For example, the Christmas poinsettia needs winter-time and therefore seems to die down after the showy December colors of its bracts. But the beautiful perennial in question does not have to be discarded -- as so many holiday celebrants do -- since keeping it in a cool, dark place for a couple of months leads to new growth, re-flowering, and re-showing of its prominent bracts (which surround its inconspicuously light-colored, tiny-sized blooms).
MiraJun 11, 2015
I never stopped to think that some plants may need wintertime.
Those self-watering pots look really good, by the way.
DerdriuMarrinerJun 4, 2015
Sometimes, shade garden plants do well indoors and sometimes they don't. It helps to maximize any reflected light possibilities by having light-colored blinds, drapes, and walls.
What houseplants are the ones that are struggling along enough to be kept?
happynutritionistJun 3, 2015