What plants and flowers are suitable for growing indoors? Recommended common varieties
Indoor decoration is not limited to various kinds of lamps, and the arrangement of furniture is no longer just cold color walls or gorgeous but soulless ornaments. Today's interior home decor can also inject more fresh vitality, and placing some green plants is exactly the source of this fresh energy. However, there are quite a lot of green plants and varieties of flowers of all colors. Which plants look good indoors, which plants can be placed indoors? Which ones can bring good feng shui? Let's find out right away.
Air purification:
1. Golden pothos (Epipremnum aureum), peace lily (Alocasia macrorrhizos): the most common foliage plants. Advantages: easy to care for, cheap, easy to propagate, and legend has it that they can absorb formaldehyde. But the downside is that Alocasia macrorrhizos is toxic.
2. Peace lily (Spathiphyllum): suppresses waste gases exhaled by the human body, such as ammonia and acetone. At the same time, it can also filter benzene, trichloroethylene and formaldehyde from the air. Its high transpiration rate can prevent the nasal mucosa from drying out, greatly reducing the likelihood of illness.
3. Monstera (Monstera deliciosa): the leaves of Monstera are thick and leathery, alternate, dark green or green; young leaves are heart-shaped with no perforations, and when mature the leaves are oblong with irregular pinnate deep lobes, with holes cracking from the leaf margin to near the veins, like a tortoiseshell pattern. On the deep green leaves there are large areas of irregular white spots, very beautiful.
4. Rubber plant (Ficus elastica): an evergreen woody foliage plant. The rubber plant has relatively large leaves, thick and leathery, glossy, with beautiful color patches, and a lush yet dignified tree shape. The rubber plant has high ornamental value and is a famous potted foliage plant. Although the rubber plant likes sunlight, it is also shade-tolerant and highly adaptable to light, so it is very suitable for indoor beautification and arrangement.
5. Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum): spider plant, with clustered leaves resembling flowers, evergreen all year round. The spider plant has the function of absorbing toxic gases and purifying the air. Its leaves are relatively broad, and the leaf color is soft; it is an elegant indoor foliage plant.
Good feng shui omens:
1. Lucky bamboo (Dracaena sanderiana): lucky bamboo is also called wan nian zhu, symbolizing attracting wealth, so it is a popular "money tree". However, note that you should not water lucky bamboo frequently, to avoid the roots rotting because of it.
2. Money tree (Pachira aquatica): the money tree is an evergreen tree, with a tree height of 8-15 m, and when grown in pots it mostly does not exceed 2 m. It has palmately compound leaves, with 5-7 leaflets, and the branches are mostly whorled. The flowers are large, up to 22.5 cm long, with fringed petals, and the flower colors are red, white or pale yellow, bright and showy. For indoor display it is mostly grown as a stump-style potted plant.
3. Guzmania (Guzmania lingulata): Guzmania is a flower of the Bromeliaceae family, with flowers opening at the top or middle of the plant. Guzmania has luxuriant flowers and leaves, and the flower color is bright red, with a very festive feel.
4. Reineckea (Reineckea carnea): Reineckea carnea has another name, rui cao. As the name suggests, it is a plant with an auspicious meaning, symbolizing good fortune and happiness. Reineckea is small and dainty, green all year round. It can grow whether planted in soil or grown in water.
It is hoped that the introduction in this article can be of some help to homeowners about to renovate, making their new home refined and cozy, and wishing everyone a happy and fulfilling life.