What is a Healthy Indoor Plant

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What is a Healthy Indoor Plant

To achieve a healthy indoor house plant, we need to understand what their needs are. The four things that plants get in their early days that help them to grow and give them good start in life are: warmth, light and humidity, steady temperature and freedom from draught. Of these basic requirements of a healthy plant, we are normally able to supply only warmth and light. For in our home temperatures tend to fluctuate, usually they rise to a peak in the evening and then swiftly drop during the night. We may pride ourselves on the air in our rooms being nice and dry, yet plants need humidity. It is also surprising what plants will put up with. It is also surprising how easy it is to give them what they need. It so happens, that in making a plant comfortable, in ensuring that it shall live as long as possible, we are also making it more decorative. It settles in more attractively. It becomes part of the environment.

As you would expect, those plants which are most popular, most often seen, are the toughest. The same goes for those which have been around for a long time such as aspidistrats, palms of many kinds, rubber plants and ivies. If you see the same kind of plant growing well under many different conditions it follows that this is an easy type and if you are new to house plants you would do well to get one like it.

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Indoor plants are rather like pets. They have different habits, different needs, according to their kind. You will get to know a plant as you would get to know a pet. For instance, one kind of plant may need watering just once a week, but should it stand in a very sunny, well ventilated, yet warm room, it may sometimes need watering every day.

It is therefore important for the new indoor gardener to realize that he or she is very much in command. Mostly, someone who cannot see either the plant or its setting can do more than generalize.