Growing plants in your home is difficult, so we gathered a list of the 10 easiest flowers to grow indoors to help alleviate the stress and beautify your space. Like any living organism, plants have the ability to adapt; therefore, with minimum care, you can turn your place into a garden.
It’s best to start with just one plant and see how you fare and then build your collection. Plants do have a lot of health benefits, though. Plants interact with your mind, body, and spirit to make your life better physically and mentally. They purify the air, keep balance, and maintain high humidity in the room. House plants also boost recovery from illnesses. If you have space, you can always have a garden outdoors, but house plants help you reap the most health benefits.
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I don’t have much of a green thumb, which means growing any kind of plant in my home is difficult. I never quite know how to water it or how often or what it needs. I wish they could speak to me and tell me what they want instead of slowly dying on my windowsill. This list is extremely useful for me because it’ll help me pick something I don’t have to fret over. Maybe I’ll choose one of them and see how I fare so I can feel the success of keeping flowers alive.
In order to compile this list, we consulted a variety of reputable sources, such as Today, Thompson-Morgan, BHG, Midwest Living, and more. Hopefully this list will help you choose what would work best for your home.
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10. Columnea
If you love hanging baskets, then this plant is perfectly suited for you because of its trailing branches. This is often called the goldfish plant because of its bright, orange tubular flowers. For the best results, keep the plant out of full sunlight and keep the soil slightly moist during the summer and dried out during the winter. Give it a weak fertilizer solution weekly. This thrives in a temperature of about 60-75ºF.
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9. Crown of Thorns
This plant, the next on our list of easiest flowers to grow indoors can take a lot of neglect, so if you’re like me and forget about your plants, you should give this a look. It can basically live without being nurtured as long as it gets enough light. It blooms during the winter, so it’s great for holidays. It survives well in temperatures of about 50-70ºF. In fact, lower temperatures help it start to bloom bright red flowers. Occasional watering keeps the Crown of Thorns happy.
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8. African Violet
This is one of the prettiest houseplants you could grow. The flowers can be one of many beautiful colors. It survives well in low light conditions with minimum care. All you have to do is water it when the soil feels dry and you’ll be able to keep it alive for a long time.
7. Peace Lily
Just so you know, the number seven on our list of easiest flowers to grow indoors is actually poisonous, so stay away from it if you have children or pets. If your household is just adults, this could be ideal. You hardly have to take care of it to keep it alive. All your Peace Lily needs is regular water and fertilizer every six weeks during the winter. The flowers are poisonous, but if you want them to bloom just keep it in low light conditions.
6. Christmas Cactus
As the name suggests, this is a cactus. You might be familiar with the resiliency of cacti and how well they survive under harsh conditions, so this requires fairly minimal care. It only needs water once or twice a week and less frequently during the winter. It’s during the winter that this cactus starts to bloom bright red flowers, hence the name.
5. Flowering Maple
As long as you keep the soil moist during the summer, your Flowering Maple, next on our list of easiest flowers to grow indoors will hardly ever be without a blossom. However, this plant requires a bit of sunlight, so let it hang out around a window. It’s very resilient when it comes to tolerating low temperatures and it can easily survive 50ºF conditions.
4. Lipstick Plant
The Lipstick Plant is a relative of the African Violet and is very popular as a hanging basket. You can probably guess that the flowers look like lipstick, as the name suggests. Just wait until the top few inches of the soil to dry and then water the plant. This is all the care it needs in order for it to survive.
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3. Hibiscus
If you love the idea of large flowers in your home, you can’t go wrong with a Hibiscus, the number three on our list of easiest flowers to grow indoors. The flowers can grow up to eight inches wide under the right conditions. It blooms from the late spring to late fall, and it requires quite a bit of watering when it is blooming. However, during the winter you only need to water it when it feels dry.
2. Anthurium
Also known as the flamingo flower, the Anthurium only needs to be well moisturized but never sitting in water. This translates to about one or two times a week, but never too much water. If it ever gets damaged for some reason, though, you can easily revive it by cutting down the damaged leaves and providing a little extra care. This plant can’t stand cold weather, so it’s best to keep it indoors so you’ll get to enjoy its beautiful flowers.
1. Kalanchoe
Our top pick is not only was to care for but brings a lot of variety. There are several variants of this flower that you can choose from to meet your specific preferences. Its comfort zone is around 55º-80ºF. It requires very little water, and when it’s finished blooming you can set it aside and let it be for about a month without watering. Regular watering isn’t required and it only needs some when it feels dry to the touch.
That concludes our list of the 10 easiest flowers to grow indoors. Hopefully, it helps you choose the best flowers to grow in your home.
