How to Care for Your Indoor Plant
Choosing an indoor plant that is adaptable to your indoor environment is detrimental to its growth. Therefore,
choose a plant that is low maintenance and requires less light, water, and heat to keep it thriving. Remember
that most plants grow better outdoors than indoors. If you happen to notice that a plant that you have brought
indoors suddenly stops growing, just give it a little more time as temperature changes as well as seasonal
changes could be the cause of its growth slowdown.
Indoor plants need a consistent temperature in order for them to thrive. Daytime temperature should be
between 60-70 degrees and no lower than 55 degrees at night. Make sure to keep the plants away from direct
sunlight and drafty windows as this could dry them out or prohibit their growth somewhat.
Many people use forced air to heat their homes during the winter. This can also cause plants to dry out. Keep
them healthy by filling up a spray bottle with water and mist them a couple of times a week. Another way to
keep your plants healthy is to give them water that has been stored in a container for a couple of days. Water
directly from the tap is not good for them as it contains chlorine. When you fill up a container and allow it to
rest for a couple of days, the chlorine dissipates.
Cacti and succulents need less water than flowering plants and thin-leaved plants. Soil should be moist but not
soaked. Over watering can cause your plant to get root rot. Another thing that indoor plants are susceptible to
is mold and insects. White flies, mealy bugs, slugs, and aphids can sometimes infest indoor plants. Make sure
to check the plant leaves and soil often for signs of insect infestation.
Some of the easiest indoor plants to grow include- the rubber tree, dieffenbachia, peace lily, snake plant,
fichus, philodendron, peperomia, shamrock, and the fiddle leaf fig. Keep these indoor plants in mind if you
want to buy plants that will help to purify the air and bring nature indoors.
Do you have any tips and tricks on how to care for your indoor plants?? Leave me a comment and we can compare notes!
We need to get some of these when we move. I think it would be awesome to have the girls help me take care of them too.
This is such a good post. I swear to god, I have killed every single plant I have owned. My family calls me “black thumb”.
I plan to purchase some succulents come spring. Thanks for these great tips!
I need these tips! I can kill an indoor plant faster than anyone I know! 😉
I think the only indoor plant that could stay alive in my home here in Phoenix, AZ is a cactus. lol In the summertime we don’t keep our house any cooler than 78 or we pay WAY too much. Maybe I could get an indoor plant and have ‘join custody’ with someone who keeps their house cool enough in the summer? I could take the winters and they could take the summers. 🙂
No matter how many tips I get, I always mange to kill a plant. Indoor or outdoor. I am not sure why plants can’t stand to be around me!
I have murdered a few houseplants in my day. I had a succulent die on me just a few days ago. I have managed to keep a fiddle leaf fig alive for almost a year, and I’m super proud of that. Maybe with these tips other house plants will have a fighting chance.
I’m weak, weak, weak at plant care. No matter how hard I try, I kill them. I finally stopped buying them because I feel too guilty!
These are great tips! I have a black thumb. No plants are growing around me! lol
Very helpful! I am terrible at taking care of my plants. I don’t water them until they look droopy. Thank you for the tips!
Thanks for the tips…I have two plants in my kitchen that are having a hard time this winter. The weather has been so cold I have had to move them from the window area. Cold and no sun!
I’m going to bookmark this for the next time I get a plant. I’m notorious for killing them, it’s really sad, a green thumb I do not have!
Great tips. I do not have a green thumb, at all. Not one bit. I love reading tips so I can try to be better about taking care of indoor plants.
i’m great at outdoor gardening. indoors? i have to give plants away. its almost embarassing!
Great tips…I have a black thumb. I kill everything, unintentionally of course. I don’t do too bad with outdoor gardening but I still have alot to learn.
Years ago, someone told me to add egg shells and seashell to the pots for additional nutrients. Does too work? I’m not sure, but I do take care of my plants and the shell look decorative… crushed.
I would like to be able to keep my plants from dying in the house. I will try the tips you have listed here.
Perfect tips! I need all the green tips I can get!
THANK YOU for sharing these tips on how to care for indoor plants! I’m always destroying plants and flowers, and often joke that my house is where plants come to die. I’ll have to bookmark this post to help me with my future gardening efforts 🙂
Great tips for taking care of your plants! I’ve been hopeless with our indoor plants!
These are great tips for indoor plants! I have a horrible time trying to keep flowers alive inside my house. I forget to make sure they have plenty of water – and then feel bad when they start looking terrible!
the only plants i’ve ever been able to keep were from my mother’s funeral. They lasted year. my sister killed the last one last year. plants are a lot of work.
Thanks for sharing. I know there are people out there that could really use them.
I’ve managed to keep a peace lilly alive for 7 years! Thanks for the reminder to check on it!