When it comes to choosing potted plants for your home, you will want to choose plants that are suited for the environment and climate around your home. Some plants require indirect sunlight and lots of shade while other plants require a healthy amount of sunlight every day to remain healthy. Below, you will find four of the most popular potted plants to add color, beauty, and spice to your life as well as their individual care requirements.
Aloe Vera
An aloe vera is a wonderful potted plant for someone who has very little experience caring for potted plants. It is a hardy plant that is very low maintenance. It only needs to be watered when the soil becomes dry. In a humid home, an aloe vera plant can go without being watered up to three weeks. If you live in a dry area, the plant will require water more often. The benefits of having an aloe vera plant in your home are numerous. Aloe vera is a plant that has many medicinal uses including skin relief for minor burns and soothing for cuts.
Busy Lizzies
Busy Lizzies re a popular type of blooming flower that are chosen as decoration for both homes and public areas. They are a perfect addition to any garden or as a companion piece within your home. Small with vivid colors, Busy Lizzies will bloom from May until October. They require a low amount of maintenance and thrive in small containers such as flower pots. They are sensitive to cold and frost, so be sure to bring in your Busy Lizzies at night if a drop in temperature or a frost is in the forecast. They will wither under direct sunlight, so keeping them in your home or in a shady area of your garden will give them the proper amount of care required to bloom to their fullest and most beautiful of colors.
Bromeliads
If you’re looking for a potted plant that’s more exotic than the traditional flower or ivy variety, a bromeliad is a plant that will surprise and amaze your senses. A bromeliad starts out as a plain plant with large green leaves that are flat and wide like a sword blade. In the center of the plant is an odd-looking stem that will grow and blossom throughout the life of the bromeliad. This stem will blossom into a brilliant flower that looks like its been plucked directly from the tropics.
What makes these plants even more astonishing is that near the end of its life cycle, it has the chance to produce a flower that differs from the usual color and shape. Additionally, a bromeliad plant will produce little pups of itself near the end of its life as well. Although this plant only lives for a year or two, you can obtain a healthy bromeliad family from just a single plant if you properly transplant these bromeliad pups into their own pot. From its humble beginnings to its impressive end, a bromeliad plant will add plenty of tropical spice to your life.
Clematis
Clematis vine plants are a striking and vibrant addition to your home or garden. They can be grown in a flower pot with ease. A flower pot is often an ideal place to keep a clematis plant since they have diverse needs in order to grow and bloom. A clematis plant requires at least six hours of direct sunlight a day while requiring its soil to remain cool. This balance of sunlight and cool soil is difficult to attain. In a flower pot, this can be accomplished by adding a cover over the top of the flower pot.
One thing to keep in mind is that a clematis plant is a vine, so it will need something to cling to and climb in order to reach its full beauty and remain healthy. Keeping your clematis flower pot near a lattice inside of your home or near an indoor tree can not only provide the clematis vine somewhere to cling but will also add a charming natural aesthetic to your indoor home decor. Clematis plants can begin blooming in early spring through to late fall, so depending on the type of clematis plants you have, you can enjoy their beauty for most of the year.