How to Beautify Your Home's Living Spaces with Indoor Flower Gardening
The overall requirements for indoor flower gardening are good shade tolerance, strong ornamental value, benefits for fresh air, and easy care. The plants kept or placed in the living room, bedroom, study, kitchen, and bathroom can be chosen according to personal preference.
Living room - Plants placed in the living room should have a dignified, graceful, and spreading form, and warm colors are best. Foliage plants include Norfolk Island pine (Araucaria heterophylla), rubber plant (Ficus elastica), Swiss cheese plant (Monstera deliciosa), golden pothos (Epipremnum aureum), areca palm (Dypsis lutescens), Brazilian ironwood (Caesalpinia ferrea), and bamboo palm (Rhapis excelsa); flowering plants include anthurium (Anthurium andraeanum), golden shrimp plant (Pachystachys lutea), Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera truncata), cineraria (Pericallis hybrida), and large-flowered cymbidium (Cymbidium). In addition, cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum), which symbolizes good fortune and the arrival of honored guests, and lily (Lilium), which implies a lifelong harmonious union, can all create a warm atmosphere and a friendly feeling between host and guests. In terms of quantity and size, plants can be appropriately more numerous and larger, and hanging plants such as spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) and ivy (Hedera helix) with their free and varied trailing forms can also adorn the stands, or distinctive tree bonsai and cut-flower arrangements can be placed.
Bedroom - The bedroom is a place for sleep and rest, so it is best to create a quiet and beautiful atmosphere. Small to medium-sized, elegant and graceful plants are more suitable, such as asparagus fern (Asparagus setaceus), spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum), creeping saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera), ivy (Hedera helix), golden pothos (Epipremnum aureum), ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa), maranta family (Marantaceae), lily (Lilium), and thornless succulents such as jewel leaf plant (Graptopetalum paraguayense), squirrel's paw (Kalanchoe), and aloe (Aloe). In addition, orchids (Orchidaceae), wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox), silver willow (Salix argyracea), winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum), calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica), and moth orchid (Phalaenopsis) are also good choices.
Study - Plants arranged in the study should help set off a quiet and elegant atmosphere. Valuable flowers long admired since ancient times, such as plum blossom, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, can be chosen as appropriate, and some fresh and elegant plants can also be selected to regulate the nervous system and eliminate fatigue from work and study, complementing the rich scholarly atmosphere. For example, decorating the desk with a few graceful asparagus ferns (Asparagus setaceus) and maidenhair ferns (Adiantum), or the delicate and charming cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum), are all ideal choices.
Kitchen - The kitchen environment should be considered for cleanliness and hygiene, and the plants and their foliage placed there should also be clean, free of pests and diseases, and free of odors. Because kitchens easily produce cooking fumes, the plants placed there should also have relatively good pollution resistance, such as aloe (Aloe), billbergia (Billbergia), sword fern (Nephrolepis), and evergreen (Rohdea japonica). If vegetables and fruits are chosen to make cut-flower arrangements, they will both harmonize with the kitchen environment and have a distinctive charm.
Bathroom - For the bathroom, choose plants that tolerate shade and moisture, with soft leaves, especially those without hairs or thorns, such as clearweed (Pilea), maidenhair fern (Adiantum), Guangdong evergreen (Aglaonema), baby rubber plant (Peperomia), and bamboo. Some shade-tolerant and fragrant plants can also be chosen, such as chloranthus (Chloranthus) and bamboo; placing these kinds of plants in the bathroom is quite suitable.