Hello gardening friends, welcome to Backyard Basics.
But today we're going to be inside actually.
A lot of people have been wondering what kind of plants do well indoors, and with the thousands
of people working in cubicles every day they need a little greenery, you need to be in
touch with nature, even if you're working indoors.
So there's some great plants that will do well in these conditions although they may
need to be rotated to a window now and then for long term survival, these are some of
the best ones.
For example, this one right here, this is the rafus palm also know as a lady palm . This
has got to be the best palm.
There's a bamboo palm that's good too but this one is slow growing and very effective
as an indoor plant really one of the best.
And then there are some classics like the sans suverias here's a little one called moon
glow.
This is a little beauty that will do very well under low light conditions even though
you have fluorescent lights up high there it is a low light condition.
Here's another one the sans suveria right here this is called black gold express this
is a beauty look at that verigation.
There are many different styles of sans suveria and this is one that I really like with that
gold band on the outside.
Of course there's some classic indoor plants and you'll see these in banks and many other
buildings because they tolerate low light conditions.
These are the spathofiliums, spathofiliums like chico here are great plants and they
have a white bloom also known as the peace flag, we need that these days, here's another
one and this one has some verigation in it, so that adds a little bit more character even
when it's not in bloom.
This one is known as domino.
These are really good indoors.
Another classic one for indoors is the Chinese evergreen.
This one right here is called indo (???) That's a beauty right there and these are very good
indoors.
This is a beautiful little plant so if you're looking at Chinese evergreens and there's
all kinds of different ones in different sizes and different leaf styles this could be a
very good choice for you.
Right here is a ??? called Carmen.
Carmen is a beauty, she's a beautiful gal, look at this, nice, green leaves and just
a great indoor plant.
Now when you're taking care of these things you take them on a wet to dry basis you don't
let them get too dry but you certainly keep some moisture in there and they'll do very
well.
Here's another classic these ivies, the ?? ivy, and this one right here is the silver queen,
this is a real beauty right here.
Oh no, this is the marble queen, there is a silver, but this is a marble queen so this
is another one.
There are many different types of pothos (?) and this is the one grandmother had on her counter
and it grew all over the room and she rarely took it to the window, so you could have it
as a hanging basket or as a container plant, there's many beautiful containers out there
and right over here on the end, this is a d. baccia (??) of which there are many different
(?) but I like this one in particular because it has more green, the more green the plant
has, the more apt it is to get some of the ambient light, but I would rotate them out
now and then and keep it on that wet to dry basis they rarely have problems indoors so
these are some very good choices.
Many containers these days don't have good drainage and so the drainage is an important
thing, if you over water them, they can rot and so what people are doing is putting a
little bit of charcoal in the bottom of containers that don't have holes.
I think this is a good way to keep the water nice and sweet, keeps it from being over watered,
and it's an important addition to any of the containers that don't have good drainage.
So there you see, there are many good plants to take into your little cubicle also in the
home when you've got a place far from the window these are some of the best ones.
For Backyard Basics, I'm John Dromgoole.
I'll see you next week.