Low Light Best Indoor House Plants

Even plants that do well in outdoor shade tend to need more light when grown indoors and this can be hard to come by unless you provide auxiliary lighting.

Low light best indoor house plants.

Snake plants also known as. Medium light would be in an east or west facing room. 31 best low light indoor plants and how to care for them snake plant sansevieria. Dumb cane.

North facing rooms or rooms with no windows are considered low light rooms. Chinese evergreen aglaonema spp. Not only can the snake plant survive with low light it s also extremely. A maidenhair fern in a 6 inch pot is 15 99 from emerald gardens gh via etsy.

There are some house plant species that positively thrive on little or no light. 9 indoor plants for low light maidenhair fern. Native to central america arrowhead vine syngonium podophyllum can tolerate a wide range of low light conditions. While in the wild staghorn ferns grow on trees in the dappled shade of the.

Parlor palm also known as neanthe bella is one of the best low light indoor plants because it can thrive indoors where other palm plants may struggle. Both its toughness and handsome foliage account for aglaonema s longtime. If you ve ever tried to grow plants in your basement you ll know that they don t like darkness. 12 best low light houseplants for darker spaces staghorn fern platycerium spp.

Bromeliads are little tropical wonders that are perfect for growing in an office with only artificial light. Low light conditions are always a challenge for the indoor gardener. If your room has no windows you should leave lights on 12 hours a day or rotate low light plants into the room for a few weeks at a time before moving them back to a naturally lit room. This indoor palm tree works like snake plants as the neanthe bella is included in nasa s list of plants that clean air.

This is my top pick for beginners or reformed house plant serial killers. When young arrowhead vine forms a bushy mound. However quite a few can survive in low light conditions so before you get skylights installed or replace all your real plants with fake ones maybe reconsider your choice of house plant. Nerve plants or fittonia prefer brighter light but they can handle low light quite well although more colorful varieties might look a little less bright with less sun according to costa farms.

Check out my latest video. Here are 20 indoor plants that thrive on low light. But all is not lost. Over time the plants will begin to vine making them ideal for hanging baskets or trained up a trellis or totem.

Its handsome foliage can be bright green bronze or variegated.