Add color to your home using plants: 10 beautiful and easy-to-grow species
Using plants is always an excellent way to decorate our homes: with their beauty, they can give life to even the dullest rooms and taking care of them helps us to relax and feel good. They give us oxygen and some of them can even purify the air we breathe, removing toxic substances or absorbing electromagnetic waves and regulating humidity.
If you like the "urban jungle" style, you can recreate a colorful rainbow in your home or apartment and turn it into an oasis of peace and beauty . Let's discover 10 plant species that are easy to grow and beautiful to look at:
1. Neoregelia
This is a wonderful plant with rigid yellow-green leaves and intense burgundy spots or bands - and it is very easy to grow: good light, a slightly humid environment and gravel in the soil for drainage will suffice. It should be watered once a week with a glass of water, avoiding stagnation. This plant is perfect for those who are not familiar with gardening or for those who do not have a lot of free time.
2. Acalypha hispida
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This is a wonderful small shrub with large intense green leaves and beautiful pinkish spiked flowers up to 20 cm long. The plant grows up to 100-150 cm very slowly and can therefore adapt very well even to small apartments. Very easy to grow, it is sufficient to place it in a place with a lots of light and make sure that it is not exposed to cold drafts.
3. Philodendron Birkin
The "Birkin" is a variety of philodendron with large leaves which have yellow and green stripes, and whose variegation changes from one plant to another. Perfect to give character to a work environment, it only needs a little non-direct sunlight and a little water. Beware of letting water go stagnant.
4. Bromeliad
Perfect for adding color to your homes, this plant blooms only once in its life and lasts in an apartment for 3 to 6 months. It needs sunlight and constant watering, but be careful not to overdo this.
5. Christmas cactus
Schlumbergera Buckleyi is known as the Christmas Cactus because it blooms in winter, so it's perfect for adding color to the colder days. Very easy to grow, it is also suitable for the less skilled in gardening: it does not need direct sunlight, adapts well to the shade and should only be watered when the soil is dry.
6. Fittonia albivenis
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This plant has wonderful dark green leaves streaked with red that tend to fall backwards and is therefore perfect for placing in hanging pots. It is a very decorative plant and very simple to grow. It needs a humid climate, so it is best to water it by spraying.
7. Anthurium andreanum
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This is a tropical plant, and with its colorful flowers, it will brighten your home. It thrives in temperatures of between 15 and 20 degrees C and requires very little watering during the winter.
8. Calathea triostar
Much appreciated for its rich color contrasts, this is a perennial tropical plant that prefers temperatures above 20 degrees C and needs continuous spraying with water.
9. Tradescantia
WIth its emerald green leaves, marked with intense purple streaks, this plant is a feast for the eyes; it is also suitable for those who do not have a green thumb. It lends itself well to growing in hanging pots and is also known as the Misery Weed.
10. Begonia
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Perfect for both the home and the office, this plant has wonderful colorful blooms and has only 3 growing rules: 1) to be positioned where there is indirect light; 2) away from heat sources and; 3) its soil must never be dry.
These were just 10 of the wonderful species you can grow to make your homes more beautiful and colorful; you just have to get to a nursery and get going.
