Indoor plants: are you ready to create your urban jungle?
There is certainly a plant or more plants suitable for every environment. Even for small or dimly lit houses: therefore, give up the idea of giving up greenery in your studio or having to fall back exclusively on succulent plants. We will explain how to make your apartment green in a few steps, even if you don't have space.
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Which plants to choose for your home, from photos to ficus!
There are so many plants that need little care and fit beautifully! Indeed, by continuing to read you will discover plants that are perfect for living in an apartment even in apparently difficult conditions, for example with little light or with little space. their colorful flowers. In addition, furnishing plants are really beneficial for your life, they retain moisture and make any environment more beautiful and liveable thanks to their splendid colors, different and complementary shapes. In addition, remember that plants are also able to purify the air: and if they do so much for you, now it's your turn. Learn to care for them and enjoy spectacular flowering!
There are so many indoor varieties of a thousand shades of green that lend themselves to transforming your home into a beautiful oasis of peace and relaxation with a green theme as long as you know the requests of each species! And if you love the green color and its relaxing effect that is beneficial for the eyes and the body, discover also which green furnishings in green color are suitable for giving a touch of new style to your home!
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Knowing the different varieties is essential to choosing the right ones for your environments. In fact, each plant has particular characteristics and requires specific attention. Read on and discover the particularities of the typical plants to keep in the apartment, the most frequent diseases, the most common parasites, the color variations and the necessary treatments. A plant that cannot miss in your home is Sanseveria Cylindrica, a green plant with tubular leaves. It lives well inside homes, even in the shade. However, it hates humidity and drafts so if you bring it home, avoid wetting the leaves when you water it or it won't grow in height. There is also Sanseveria Trifasciata, which will give your home a beautiful dark green, intense and bright. In winter, you can also completely forget about watering it. This plant is really beautiful, with a little light it grows quickly and in spring it may be optimal to give it some fertilizer to show it off strong and beautiful. The third plant we want to show you is a true icon of green indoor plants, the Photos, as beautiful as the Ficus, but which also grows in dark corners of the house. It has mottled forges of many shades of green: there are many varieties, but all of them do not need a lot of water. They are really hardy especially if you remember to clean its nice large leaves from time to time and remove the dry leaves from the pot.
A plant that cannot be missing in your apartment if you dream of creating an urban jungle is the Boston Fern, easy to care for. The only thing that the fern requires is regular watering both in summer and in winter: in this way it grows quickly and gives you beautiful, green and lush leaves. No flowers of course but its leaves are a little sight!
This indoor plant often suffers from insects and parasites: often the fern is attacked by cochineal, always pay attention to its leaves and if you notice the presence of parasites buy a suitable product to treat it.
Finally, another wonder of nature to take home is the Wax Flower, a beautiful deep green potted tropical plant that owes this suggestive name to its white flowers with a fascinating star shape. The flowers inside are characterized by another small bright colored inflorescence, fuchsia, red or yellow, and have a waxy consistency.This plant loves light and thrives well in direct sunlight. To avoid pruning, it absolutely does not need it also because it does not grow in height! Flour butterflies, red spider mites and aphids are the parasites that can ruin the wax flower: better pay a little extra attention to preserve its beauty in any environment!
A little trick to better cultivate your indoor plants except for succulents is to periodically remove the dried leaves and flowers to ensure that the plant grows healthy and shiny and that gives serenity and cleanliness to the environment!
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If you live in a house with little light, choose the Aspidistra. It is a plant that lives well in the dark and gives you large, thick, well-tapered leaves of a beautiful green color. Not even afraid of the lack of water, nor the colder temperatures. Remember to polish its leaves every week: it will be even more beautiful! If you want to give your home an exotic and fascinating touch, you can choose a Dracena marginata, a small miniature palm tree that creates new green furnishing solutions and helps you to create a real urban jungle in which it is pleasant and relaxing to live. The Dracena marginata is beautiful indoors and needs little water: pay attention to its leaves, it can often have brown spots and in that case it is better to avoid watering to wait for the soil to dry. Another true wonder of nature is the Kenzia, a wonderful plant of medium height and easy to care for. Keep it away from cold drafts that can destroy it and also from direct heat from radiators. If you pay these small attentions this species can grow luxuriantly and will need very little water, some watering but only when needed. It is a real design element, with great character that fits well in any environment and always reveals itself to be at the height of any context: placed in the central place of the house and reserve the right space for it, it requires little care but loves to be at the center of the attention!
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The Christmas Cactus: a plant that flowers in December! The Christmas Cactus, native to the rainforest, is also called Schlumbergera from the French Fréderic Schlumberger, famous collector of plants. It belongs to the cactus family but has smooth, flat and thornless leaves and reaches an average height. It might look like one of the succulents but this species is much more elegant and refined and has a more vivid and intense color. The flowering of this potted plant will surprise you: it has trumpet-shaped flowers in white, pink or red. The peculiarity of this species, which is a depolluting plant, is that it can last for many years. Place it in the light, avoid any source of heat or direct sunlight and remember to always remove dried flowers to prepare the plant for new blooms. You will see, you can cultivate it without too much difficulty!
The grass misery: a super resistant plant that looks good indoors and outdoors. The grass misery is a hanging plant, which practically resists everything, drought, humidity ... little light and too much light. It has a perfect inner balance because nothing is able to annoy its beautiful leaves usually of different shades of green. In spring, it is covered with small white flowers: a real marvel for the sight! It is also suitable for denied girls and those who just do not know what the green thumb is. It reproduces really easily, if you place a stem in a glass of water in 4 days you will see the roots sprout and you can plant your miserable grass in a soft soil mixed with a little sand. The ficus could not be missing in this selection of indoor plants!
Keep in mind that the Ficus is really much loved and very widespread: there are at least 800 different species of evergreen plant altitude that originates in the tropical rainforests but adapts very well. A small apartments in the center. It does not flower, it does not bear fruit, it does not like too cold temperatures (which is why they can feel much better indoors than outdoors) and it will find its ideal habitat in your home. But be careful: its dark green leaves are toxic and the sap of the Ficus has an irritating power, if there are animals or children in the house it is better to pay attention that they do not get too close to play with its leaves. However, if there are no animals or children in the house, the ficus turns out to be a winning choice in any interior: this plant absorbs formaldehyde, emitted into the environment by many household furnishings and is one of the most effective ornamental plants against pollution!
