Sunlight is a source of energy for plants, but potted potted flowers do not always get enough sunlight. Yes, most houseplants are recommended to be placed on a windowsill or generally near a window in a well-lit place, but there are indoor flowers that will survive and delight us with their beauty in the darkest corners of the house.
These plant varieties, which will be discussed below, are not particularly saddened by the lack of sunlight - they feel good enough in low light and even in partial shade. True, the beauty of such "dark-loving" plants is mainly not in bright colors, in wonderful leaves, which, moreover, purify the air of an apartment and other rooms especially well.
Calathea
The patterned leaves make this plant a welcome addition to any room, but keep in mind that direct sunlight is undesirable for it. The best option for calathea is partial shade.
Dieffenbachia
Diffused light works best for this plant. It is best to keep it behind a curtain. The plant is especially beautiful in the spring-summer period, when light, delicate leaves appear in the center.
Dracaena marginata
This is a real slice of the tropics on the office desk. But keep the plant out of direct sunlight - they can damage them. The plant loves shade.
Chlorophytum crested
A very unpretentious plant, therefore, quite popular. It can go without the sun for a long time and at the same time perfectly cleans the air.
Gelksina
A plant with tiny delicate leaves looks beautiful in hanging pots and in pots next to tall plants. But be careful: do not plant it on low plants - gelksina can "strangle" them. Frequent watering and spraying is required of you.
Ferns
More than 2000 species of ferns are suitable for growing at home. These tropical plants are willing to keep in the shade, but they will not tolerate dry air. They need frequent spraying of the leaves, especially during the heating season.
Philodendron heart-shaped
Perhaps this is a favorite plant of many flower growers. Feels good in the shade, perfectly cleans the air. Occasionally pinching is required so that it does not stretch too long.
Neoregelia
A tropical plant that thrives on artificial light only. It thrives in humid conditions such as bathrooms.
Spathiphyllum
If you often forget to water your plants and there is almost no sunlight in the room, you can pick up such a beautiful and unpretentious flower for yourself.
Aglaonema
One of the best choices for a low light room. Ideal for beginner gardeners.
Sansevieria three-lane
A plant that requires little or no maintenance. Light affects its growth, but it lives well in the dark.
Aspidistra high
This plant perfectly tolerates shade, heat, cold. But it will take a little patience as it grows very slowly.
It should be noted that besides their "main function" - air purification in the house, houseplants often perform other useful "duties". In addition to decorating the home and improving the mood, some of the plants have a significant effect on the well-being of the owners. Some houseplants can calm and even improve occupants' sleep. What plants are useful to have in the house is written below. Some of them have already been presented in the first part of the post.
Palm (Areca)
This plant removes toxins and carbon dioxide from the air. It also releases moisture into the air, which makes it especially useful during the heating season, when the air in the room is especially dry.
Aloe (Vera)
This plant, in addition to its medicinal properties, reduces the content of formaldehydes and other harmful substances in the air. It emits oxygen at night, which is usually unusual for other plants. In addition, the phytoncides that aloe secretes have a beneficial effect on the body and increase immunity.
Ficus (Benjamina)
One of the record holders in air purification. It removes more than 70% of benzene, ammonia, toluene and other harmful impurities from the air that can be released from low-quality synthetic coatings, linoleum and chipboard. It recycles all these compounds and also destroys half of all existing microbes. It has a beneficial effect on sleep and also looks good in the bedroom.
Sansevieria (Trifasciata)
This plant has a good effect on the state of the respiratory system and immunity. If there is this plant in the house, then people living in it suffer less from headaches and pressure surges associated with a change in weather. At night, during sleep, it also releases oxygen and keeps you pleasantly cool.
Fern (Boston)
The beneficial properties of the fern are in its valuable chemical composition. The plant is rich in essential oils, flavonoids and other substances. Therefore, this flower has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the nervous system, helps to cope with stress.
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Not all apartments boast an abundance of sun in their rooms. Lack of natural light will not hurt to decorate your home interior with fresh flowers in pots. Many shade-loving indoor plants tolerate these conditions well. North facing windows are best suited for the growth and development of these flowers.
What is bred in partial shade conditions? The main shady indoor plants are calathea, fittonia, arrowroot, aucuba, aglaonema, clivia, dracaena. You can see how these representatives of the domestic flora look in the photo. A small amount of light is suitable for ficus, rapeseed, maidenhair, capitate yew, cordilina, begonia, nephrolepis. Owners of dimly lit apartments also have a wide range of landscaping options for their homes.
In order for shade-loving indoor plants to feel good, they should be given special care.
The pots must be filled with fertile soil. This is important, since they will have to use only one way of feeding - from the ground.
Few shade-loving plants can boast of frequent flowering. But they have large colorful leaves (this is noticeable in the photo above).
In the list of colors that are not harmed by a lack of lighting, there are such names: hibiscus, balsam, primrose, cyclamen. These green beauties will delight the inhabitants of the house not only with a lush crown of leaves, but also with original flowers. Other shade-loving specimens can be found in stores. Among them are such famous houseplants as lily, Chinese rose and freesia.
Every housewife wants to fill her home with comfort and warmth. Living elements of the interior create a special atmosphere. What can you choose to decorate your Nordic shaded windows? Shade-loving indoor plants of the following types are best suited for these purposes: paunesia, coral begonia, primrose, cyneria, tuberous tuberose. They cannot stand bright intense sunlight - it is destructive for them. In the shade, these indoor flowers feel very comfortable.
You can use the recommendations of experienced florists. They advise putting a monster, begonia, akakuba in a dark hallway or on the northern windowsills. Ficuses, maidenhair trees, rapis, Cretan pteris will look beautiful. You can plant greenery in an apartment where the sun rarely appears, ivy, birch, pike tail, nephrolepis.
If you are not aware of such shade-loving indoor plants, then their photos can be found in catalogs.
If the task is to plant greenery in a dark apartment, but the owners do not have free time to pay a lot of attention to flowers, then Coleus is best suited. As the photo shows, it looks very picturesque. You can also choose an aspidistra. It not only enlivens the interior, but also filters the air in the room. Other names for this flower can be seen in reference books. It is called the “cobbler's palm”. This plant has the following advantages:
Sanseveria and the ulkasa castle can be considered unpretentious. For such endurance they were given the name "cast iron plants". Palma, nolina are also shade-loving room dwellers. Often, shaded areas are decorated with a dollar tree (called a bird's feather).
Climbing shade-loving indoor plants have excellent decorative abilities. They will become a picturesque accent on the north window or in the hallway. If you provide such vegetation with proper care and place it correctly, you will get a colorful interior element.
Curly shade-loving flowers are epipremnum, hoya, episcia, crested chlorophytum. You can beautifully braid the elements of the window with the help of the climbing philodendron, Gerrain's rose, tetrastim - indoor grapes.
Among the ampelous there are shade-loving specimens. These indoor plants have long branches. Additional supports will have to be built for them. If this is not done, then the branches will freely fall down (in the photo and in the real interior it also looks very beautiful).
Indoor ampelous flowers are used to decorate the walls. These plants include tradescantia, hoya (many know it under the name of wax ivy), columnea, pilea. Shade-loving creeping callisia and Japanese vineyard do well with a small amount of light and create the illusion of an abundance of greenery and air in the premises
If most (or all windows) in the house face north, then indoor flowers that do not need strong lighting can be used. With the help of a photo, it is easy to select those plants that best support the overall style of the room.
Flowers are perhaps the most exquisite decoration of any interior, be it a cozy home area or a strictly official study. Living green foliage, elegant and eye-catching, becomes an integral part of the space in which we exist. But it is important to choose the right plants for the conditions of the premises where it is planned to place them. It's no secret that illumination plays an important role in the decorativeness of home cultures. Therefore, let's talk about plants that can maintain their beauty and attractiveness, despite the obvious lack of light.
Offering a selection of popular indoor shade-loving plants with photos and names, we will consider several of the most common of them, find out the features of growing and acceptable conditions of detention.
Such representatives of the flora include many plants - mainly from rainforests, living in the lower tier and being content with very little light. This feature is used by their cultural offspring and becomes invaluable in furnishing interiors with low light levels. For the most part, these are decorative deciduous plants, divided into:
But there are many flowering species among them.
Unassuming flower, beautiful and blooming for a long time. It develops superbly on the northern windowsill, not tolerating the direct rays of the sun. This is a hygrophilous stemless culture with decorative oblong juicy green leaves decorated with sharp tips that begin to dry out if the spathiphyllum does not have enough water. Leaves grow immediately from the rhizome, and flower stalks appear from there. Spathiphyllum is a lover of high air humidity and frequent spraying, but suffers from drafts and sudden changes in temperature. The optimal content is considered - 22-23 ° C.
The recognized queen of indoor cultivation, capable of blooming in partial shade for 3-4 months with short interruptions. This beauty - a lover of warm rooms with high humidity, puts forward special conditions for irrigation: water should not fall on leaves, densely pubescent and often have no less decorative than flowers. More than 3 thousand species are widespread, but the number of new varieties and hybrids is constantly increasing. The heat-loving violet does not tolerate excessive moisture and is afraid of drafts.
A culture whose uniqueness is emphasized by an interesting flower shape - a bright colorful arrow. Vriezia is very capricious: it grows successfully only in a certain temperature range (20-27 ° C), does not tolerate water getting into the leaf outlet before flowering, the rest of the time moisture should be in it. Sometimes she needs help to bloom. Vriezia is stimulated with ethylene gas, which is emitted by ripe fruits: they are placed near a container with a flower and covered with a transparent cap. During flowering, Vriezia is additionally illuminated.
Flowering plants are still more demanding on lighting, since budding and subsequent flowering noticeably deplete any crop. Therefore, in office buildings, offices, corridors and dimly lit rooms, it is more advisable to use non-flowering plants, but no less interesting.
A type of fern with very thin, but strong stems, studded with delicate light green leaves. In common parlance it is called "Venus hair", it is very graceful and elegant. Maidenhair is unpretentious, comfortable in warmth and partial shade, but it suffers from excess moisture and drafts.
This is a representative of the arrowroot. Like all varieties of this family, it has a surprisingly beautiful color of leaves, it grows quickly, is not picky and often throws out peduncles, on which nondescript small white, purple or pinkish flowers bloom. The plant is moisture-loving, it needs frequent spraying and maintenance of constant soil moisture. In winter, with the onset of a dormant period, the intensity of watering is reduced. Lack of moisture affects the drying of the tips of the leaves. Comfortable temperature - 17-24 ° C.
Tropical beauty with oval-pointed, green or variegated leaves. It is valued not only as an unpretentious shade-tolerant plant, but also as a wonderful orderly who cleans the air in the room from harmful chemical compounds. The culture is compact: the leaves are attached to plump short shoots, sometimes an ear-flower is formed, but this happens very rarely. Aglaonema is warm and moisture-loving, needs daily spraying and generous watering. It has a well-defined dormant period, at this time the culture is watered moderately. A comfortable temperature for her is considered to be a temperature in the active spring-summer period of 20-25 ° C, in winter - 16-20 ° C.
All of the above indoor shade-tolerant plants are low, growing no more than 0.5–0.7 m. But among these crops there are real giants - large-sized plants and representatives of palm trees.
Advice! When choosing palms, semi-shrubs or the so-called large-sized trees, you should pay attention to the color of the leaves: the darker the foliage of the plant, the easier it is for it to endure the lack of light. These crops can decorate the most shaded areas. Variegated forms will require more illumination.
A widespread culture, some of which visually resemble a palm tree. In shaded and warm rooms, dracaena develops successfully, but grows slowly, clearing the air space around. She prefers abundant watering in summer, moderate in winter, responds well to spraying, but does not tolerate stagnant water. The optimal temperature for her is considered to be 20-25 ° C during the period of activity, 15-18 ° C - in winter. There are many varieties of dracaena: some differ in the shape and color of the leaves, others have a palm-shaped rigid trunk, and still others resemble half-shrubs with flexible, excellently forming shoots. Dracaena is distinguished by a surprisingly high ability to vegetative reproduction: pieces of the stem are successfully transported and quickly take root.
A bush-shaped palm tree with an incredible ability to feel comfortable in any environment. Hamedorea is a true leader among air-purifying plants, besides, it is hardy and unassuming. This shade-loving and unpretentious species is capable of throwing 3-5 new leaves during the season, not noticing the lack of light. The palm tree, like its counterparts, loves moderate moisture, high humidity of the surrounding area and periodic spraying. In summer, chamedorea is watered 2-3 times a week, in winter - 1 time. Like all members of the arec family, this palm responds gratefully to fertilizing with fertilizer for palm trees. Hamedorea is the only palm tree that reproduces by daughter offspring, which are separated during transplantation.
The traditional plant, which has long and firmly settled in our homes and offices, is decorative and very popular. Like other shade-loving flowers, ficus is not indifferent to generous watering, loves warmth and regular spraying, but cannot stand bright sunlight. There are many varieties of ficuses: large ones with large leathery leaves, tree-like shrub forms, ampelous and ivy-like. It is a fertile material for creating bonsai. All ficuses are shade-tolerant, thrive at 20–25 ° C, and winter at 16–18 ° C.
Not every room in a house or apartment is well lit. The sun rarely looks into the room, the windows of which face north. It is quite difficult to create coziness and supplement the design with indoor plants in such conditions. In this case, you can pick up shade-tolerant indoor plants that naturally grow in shaded or shady places. Their choice must be approached very carefully, choosing only unpretentious specimens that do not require a lot of light for their growth.
Plants with beautiful leaves that grow well in the shade can be used to decorate any dark corner in the apartment, thereby complementing the interior of the room. The most unpretentious of them include:
Any corner of a large spacious room can be decorated using large, large plants who love shade. They will look great alone or surrounded by other unpretentious flowers.
Oddly enough, some beautifully flowering plants also grow well in the shade, decorating poorly lit rooms with their flowers. They can be grown next to the north windows or in the corner of a room with artificial lighting.
Any wall, bookcase, wardrobe or flower stand in the apartment can be decorated with vines that love and grow well in shade and partial shade.
Scindapsus... The climbing plant is distinguished by leathery, simple oval leaves. Its green leafy plates are adorned with white and yellow streaks. In indoor conditions, scindapsus grows very quickly. To make the liana lush and look beautiful, it is periodically recommended to cut it off. It tolerates partial shade, loves high humidity and abundant watering in the summer.
Ivy... An indoor plant with stellate green or variegated leaves is a favorite of all gardeners. A shade-tolerant flower in a short time is able to grow and twine around any support. It can be grown in a hanging planter or run over a moss support and shaped into a tree.
Syngonium... There are many types of this indoor plant, but green-leaved syngonium grows well in the shade. A beautiful liana is distinguished by juicy leaves, which, closing together, form a cascade that can decorate any room. It grows rapidly and, if supported, can form into a tree. Loves regular watering and spraying.
Creeping calissia... The trailing plant with creeping stems and ovoid, velvety dark green leaves can be grown in hanging pots. Because it grows quickly to create a green carpet, it is often planted in large pots or used to fill empty spaces in a composition.
Tradescantia... The well-known herb is distinguished by straight creeping shoots, lanceolate, ovate, elliptical alternate leaves and axillary white inflorescences. To get a dense ampelous plant, Tradescantia periodically needs to be pinched. An unpretentious indoor flower can be grown in the shade by placing it on a closet, shelf or planting it in a hanging planter.
As you can see from the article, even for dark rooms you can pick up a large or small, flowering or decorative deciduous plant. Paying a little attention to it, you can admire the "green friend" all year round.
Shade-loving plants for home
In some apartments, there is not enough light, and green pets quickly lose their attractiveness, do not bloom, and in the worst cases they die.
Houseplants that love shade (more precisely, shade for which it is natural) are at their peak in popularity. Shade-loving flowers and flowers can be placed not only on the windowsills, but also inside the room, which can bring harmonious and relaxing touches to the atmosphere of a house or apartment. In this article, we will look at shade-loving flowering and non-flowering indoor plants.
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- a perennial plant native to South America, therefore it is quite capricious. It will take patience and care to look after him.
The optimum temperature is in the range of 20-24 degrees. Do not allow sudden changes and protect the plant from possible drafts.
Despite the fact that this is a tropical plant, calathea does not like direct sunlight, so it is important to find a place for it where there will be enough light, but not too much (for example, not far from a window).
Calathea loves high humidity, up to 90%. It is difficult to achieve such an indicator in an apartment, so you need to regularly spray the leaves. If the leaves are velvety, then spray only the air around. You can also put pebbles into the pan and pour water so that the bottom of the pot with the plant does not touch it. Watering 2-3 times a week.
The soil must be breathable, free of excess calcium and nitrogen. You can transplant a young plant once a year, then every 2-4 years.
The orchid is native to Brazil. She does not like direct sunlight, so her friends are diffused light and partial shade.
The temperature should be maintained in the range from +12 to +20, without sudden changes. The roots love light, so clear planters are ideal for this plant.
High humidity for miltonia can be provided with an air humidifier, water containers and trays with pebbles or expanded clay soaked in water. Do not spray the plant itself - it does not like it. Drizzle with soft water at room temperature.
Plant feeding can be done with special fertilizers for orchids or rhododendrons. It is best to replant in the spring once 1-2 years or when the roots of the plant no longer fit in the pot. Miltonia can bloom almost all year round, although this is quite difficult to achieve.
Unpretentious fern from tropical and subtropical regions. Able to clean the air from harmful substances (formaldehyde, toluene) and microbes. Looks best in hanging pots.
Summer temperature for nephrolepis should be around +20, and in winter - around +15, does not tolerate drafts. Also, you do not need to put it in the sun, it is better to choose a shaded place.
The plant should be kept away from heating and heating systems. It must be often sprayed with water (if possible 2-3 times a day), you can put containers with water next to the pot so that the air is humidified and gives strength to your pet.
Daily watering is necessary, while making sure that no stagnant water forms in the soil. For feeding, you can use diluted mineral and, best of all, in the spring-summer period.
This plant came to us from the tropical forests of America, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and the Philippine Islands.
The flower loves to be in partial shade at a temperature of 18-25 degrees. loves high humidity, however, this does not mean that it needs to be fanatically watered. Watering should be done when the soil begins to dry out. The flower loves to be sprayed with warm water, but at the same time you need to make sure that the water does not get into the cobs. To create a moist environment around the pot, you can use trays of moss or sand and water to gradually evaporate the moisture.
A young plant can be replanted every spring by adding brick chips or charcoal to the soil. But it is better not to disturb an adult plant for 3-5 years.
Perennial undersized plant from South America. This flower loves when it is hotter: 25-26 degrees, but it will feel fine even at +20. The main rule is to avoid sudden changes, otherwise it can lead to stress and the condition of your pet will worsen.
Likes a well-lit place with diffused light and partial shade. In winter, you can make "supplementary lighting" with fluorescent lamps.
Like any representative of the tropical flora, this flower adores high humidity. So daily watering and pallets of wet expanded clay and pebbles will help the plant feel good. Spray at least once a day and keep away from heating elements.
You can transplant Fittonia once a year, while choosing a wide, but shallow pot, since the root system is superficial. You should also remember about good drainage and looseness of the soil. Fittonia blooms from mid-summer to mid-autumn.
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