Common Houseplants for Your Home and Office

June 1, 2009

in Garden Mode, Home Office, Tree, Plant & Flower

Plants are literally a breath of fresh air. Lush green or cheerfully colorful, they are a source of living and changing beauty. However, you choose to bring plants into your home, they will brighten up your life.

Common Houseplants

Most houseplants originate in the tropical or subtropical regions, and grow under the full shade of other plants. These shade-loving plants make relatively easy-care container houseplants, and most of the common houseplants are suitable for keeping in the home and office environments.

Categories of Common Houseplants:

  • Trees and shrubs
  • Perennials, biennials and annuals
  • Bulbs
  • Cacti and succulents
  • Climbing and trailing plants
  • Aquatic and semi-aquatic plants

General Characteristics on Common Houseplants:

  • Can be planted and grown in a container
  • Relatively easy to grow indoors or outdoors
  • Relatively easy to maintain

When Choosing Your Ideal Houseplants, They Should Be Able To:

  • Tolerate dry indoor air
  • Live indoors for a prolong period
  • Grow and multiply easily
  • Do without much pruning
  • Resist insects and disease
  • Tolerate occasional abuse or neglect
  • Thrive, if not survive, without any special conditions for its survival

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