Indoor Plant
Care Guide
A growing directory of popular houseplants, complete with watering schedules, light requirements, and practical tips to help your indoor jungle thrive.
Monstera Deliciosa
Monstera deliciosa
Also known as the Swiss Cheese Plant, the Monstera Deliciosa is a popular houseplant beloved for its large, glossy, perforated leaves. It's a tropical vining plant that can grow quite large indoors, bringing a dramatic jungle vibe to any room.
Golden Pothos
Epipremnum aureum
One of the easiest houseplants to grow, the Golden Pothos features trailing vines with beautiful green and yellow heart-shaped leaves. It looks incredibly elegant when allowed to drape from a bookshelf or hanging planter.
Snake Plant
Sansevieria trifasciata
Renowned for its indestructible nature and striking architectural form, the Snake Plant has stiff, sword-like leaves that grow upright. It's an excellent air purifier and releases oxygen at night, making it highly recommended for bedrooms.
ZZ Plant
Zamioculcas zamiifolia
With its wide, dark green, glossy leaves, the ZZ Plant is an incredibly drought-tolerant houseplant that accepts neglect. Its rhizomes store water, allowing it to survive for long periods without intervention.
Spider Plant
Chlorophytum comosum
A classic houseplant that is exceptionally fun to grow. It features long, arching leaves that are solid green or variegated. Mature plants produce long stems bearing tiny white flowers and 'spiderettes' (baby plants).
Fiddle Leaf Fig
Ficus lyrata
A popular indoor tree featuring very large, heavily veined, and violin-shaped leaves that grow upright. It makes a stunning architectural statement in any bright room.
Peace Lily
Spathiphyllum wallisii
Known for its brilliant white spathe flowers and dark green foliage, the Peace Lily is excellent at cleaning indoor air and is one of the most communicative plants when it needs water.
Aloe Vera
Aloe barbadensis miller
A very popular succulent famous for the soothing gel inside its thick, fleshy leaves. It's incredibly architectural and very forgiving of neglect.
Rubber Plant
Ficus elastica
A sturdy indoor tree with large, thick, glossy leaves that can be deep green, burgundy, or variegated. It can grow into a magnificent, ceiling-grazing indoor tree.
Chinese Money Plant
Pilea peperomioides
Famous for its perfectly round, coin-shaped leaves on long, delicate stems. It's highly sought after for modern interiors and frequently produces little 'pups' that you can share.
Jade Plant
Crassula ovata
A popular, long-lived succulent with fleshy, oval-shaped leaves and thick, woody stems that give it a miniature tree-like appearance. Often considered a symbol of good luck.
Boston Fern
Nephrolepis exaltata
A lush, classic houseplant known for its mass of feathery, arching fronds. It looks beautiful in hanging baskets or on pedestals but requires high humidity to stay green and lush.
Bird of Paradise
Strelitzia nicolai
A spectacular, large tropical plant with massive, banana-like leaves. Indoors, it creates an unmatched jungle atmosphere, though it rarely blooms outside of a greenhouse.
English Ivy
Hedera helix
A vigorous, fast-growing evergreen woody vine. It makes a classic, elegant hanging houseplant but requires careful attention to avoid pests.
Heartleaf Philodendron
Philodendron hederaceum
One of the easiest houseplants to grow, known for its heart-shaped emerald green leaves and trailing vines.
Philodendron Birkin
Philodendron 'Birkin'
A stunning, compact philodendron with dark green leaves bursting with bright white pinstripes.
Baby Rubber Plant
Peperomia obtusifolia
A compact, easy-going houseplant featuring thick, spoon-shaped green leaves. Despite the name, it is not related to true rubber plants.
Pinstripe Calathea
Calathea ornata
A gorgeous but dramatic plant with large, dark green leaves featuring elegant pink pinstripes. Requires very specific care.
ZZ Raven
Zamioculcas zamiifolia 'Raven'
A striking, low-maintenance plant with foliage that emerges lime green and matures to a stunning deep purple-black.
String of Pearls
Senecio rowleyanus
A beautiful, cascading succulent featuring little spherical leaves resembling peas or pearls on a string.
String of Hearts
Ceropegia woodii
A charming, semi-succulent trailing vine with delicate, heart-shaped leaves that boast beautiful silver variegation and purple undersides.
String of Turtles
Peperomia prostrata
A miniature trailing plant with tiny, fleshy leaves that look remarkably like little turtle shells.
Wax Plant
Hoya carnosa
A popular, long-lived vining houseplant with thick, waxy, almond-shaped leaves. Mature plants produce beautiful, fragrant, star-shaped flowers.
Sweetheart Plant
Hoya kerrii
Famous for its perfect, heart-shaped leaves. Often sold as a single rooted leaf, though vining mature plants are spectacular.
Prayer Plant
Maranta leuconeura
Features spectacularly patterned leaves that fold up at night as if in prayer. A fascinating, beautiful, and dramatic plant.
Chinese Evergreen
Aglaonema
One of the most durable houseplants available, featuring striking variations of pink, red, silver, and green leaves.
Dumb Cane
Dieffenbachia
A highly toxic but beautiful houseplant characterized by large, lush foliage heavily patterned with green, white, and yellow.
Arrowhead Plant
Syngonium podophyllum
A fast-growing, lively vining plant with arrow-shaped leaves that change shape as they mature. Excellent for hanging baskets.
Inch Plant
Tradescantia zebrina
An incredibly fast-growing, colorful trailing plant with zebrine-striped leaves of purple, green, and silver.
Neon Pothos
Epipremnum aureum 'Neon'
A vibrant variety of the incredibly resilient Pothos family, famous for its shocking, glowing chartreuse-yellow, heart-shaped leaves.
Satin Pothos
Scindapsus pictus
Not a true Pothos, but a closely related vining plant featuring velvety, matte-green leaves stunningly splattered with silver variegation.
African Milk Tree
Euphorbia trigona
Often mistaken for a cactus, this is actually a succulent that grows tall, striking triangular stems lined with tiny leaves and thorns. Toxic white sap.
African Mask Plant
Alocasia amazonica
A dramatic, prehistoric-looking plant with dark, leathery, arrow-shaped leaves featuring thick, prominent, bright white/green veins.
Polka Dot Begonia
Begonia maculata
A truly exotic-looking cane begonia with beautiful dark olive green, wing-shaped leaves adorned with dramatic metallic silver polka dots and deep red undersides.
Moonshine Snake Plant
Sansevieria trifasciata 'Moonshine'
A beautifully elegant variety of snake plant with wide, ghostly, silvery-mint green leaves that grow in a rosette pattern.
Weeping Fig
Ficus benjamina
A popular, elegant indoor tree with slender branches that arch gracefully, adorned with small, glossy, pointed leaves.
Ficus Audrey
Ficus benghalensis
Cousin to the Fiddle Leaf Fig, but easier to care for. It features a striking light trunk and velvety, deep green, oval-shaped leaves.
Dragon Tree
Dracaena marginata
A spiky, architectural indoor tree featuring slender gray stems topped with rosettes of narrow, sword-like green leaves edged in red.
Corn Plant
Dracaena fragrans
A robust houseplant with a thick woody stalk topped by a fountain of long, wide, glossy green leaves, usually with a yellow stripe down the center.
Parlor Palm
Chamaedorea elegans
A classic Victorian-era houseplant. A delicate, elegant, and compact palm that adapts beautifully to indoor conditions.
Areca Palm
Dypsis lutescens
A lush, large indoor palm that produces clusters of tall stalks with feathery, arching green fronds. Excellent for filling empty corners.
Ponytail Palm
Beaucarnea recurvata
Not a true palm, but an eccentric succulent with a massive swollen trunk (caudex) that stores water, topped with a wild spray of curly, grass-like leaves.
Yucca Cane
Yucca elephantipes
A dramatic, structural plant native to desert regions. It features thick, woody trunks topped with starbursts of stiff, sword-like leaves.
Stromanthe Triostar
Stromanthe thalia
A relative of the prayer plant featuring spectacular, long leaves painted with streaks of white, green, and cream, with an electric pinkish-red underside.
Flamingo Flower
Anthurium andraeanum
A striking, exotic plant famous for its waxy, heart-shaped, bright red 'flowers' (spathes) and dark green foliage. One of the longest-blooming houseplants.
Bromeliad
Guzmania
A fascinating tropical epiphyte that grows a rosette of grassy leaves, from which a brilliantly colored, long-lasting flower bract emerges.
Moth Orchid
Phalaenopsis
The most common and easiest to grow of all orchids. Produces elegant, arching sprays of long-lasting flowers that resemble moths in flight.
Christmas Cactus
Schlumbergera bridgesii
A popular, long-lived, holiday-blooming succulent featuring flat, segmented stems. It produces gorgeous, tubular flowers in pink, red, or white during winter.
Burro's Tail
Sedum morganianum
A beloved succulent famous for its long, trailing stems heavily packed with plump, pale green, overlapping teardrop-shaped leaves.
Silver Bay Chinese Evergreen
Aglaonema 'Silver Bay'
Known for its stunning silver-green foliage, this robust plant is tolerant of a wide range of indoor conditions, including poor light and dry air.