Hi everyone this is Noelle at Petitti Garden Centers in Oakwood Village and
it's winter and what's better to bring nature in by bringing in some
houseplants well we talked earlier about different types of houseplants and sort
of low light levels easy care stuff and so I wanted to kind of do a little bit
more focus group on low light house plants so this is what I have in front
of me just so just a small selection just so you can see what what we have to
offer but lots of different types of plants here well you will notice in low
light areas in your home or in your office it's usually an area that has no
windows or if you do have windows they're very far away or they might be
smaller or they actually might be dirty and that's okay because that does reduce
your light levels on your plants and these plants actually prefer it that way
the low light that we talk about is low indirect lighting it is usually eight to
ten foot away from a sunny window so that could be northern eastern western
or southern window and typically they can be used in hallways in dark corners
all those types of areas okay what you've probably noticed is that there's
not a lot of color or pigmentation and the foliage there's not a lot of
flowering either the reason being is you just don't have enough energy or the
plants don't have enough energy to produce flowers and if that bright
flowers or bright colors so again this is going to be more foliage type plants
but you always want to consider the differences in the foliage some are
thicker some are glossier some are more fern leaf so when you have when you
play with all those different textures of foliage that always makes a really
interesting indoor house plant area so the first one that I had mentioned and
our easy house plant care is this ZZ plant it really is one of the
easiest plants for low light again very drought tolerant - okay the one in front
of me is really up-and-coming this is actually
at what we call bird's nest fern or Asplenium but let's just stick with the
bird's nest fern and this plant actually is one of your easiest care ferns low
light to actually medium indirect light this plant as long as you are
better water that their soil likes to stay evenly moist and even some spray
misting to increase the humidity is always good with the bird's nest ferns
or most fern family inside this big one right here is actually a Chinese
evergreen this is a newer variety it has that pink edge on its foliage
it also has pink stems so it's really very ornamental Chinese evergreens come
in a lot of different green shades various different varieties there but
they're basically just a foliage planet every once in a while you'll start to
see them flower so they produce what we call a spath type flower it's just one
little petal if you will and they'll pop up every once in a while okay so Chinese
evergreen really good option and again keeping them on the drier side of
watering when you just start to see them wilt that's a good time to rewire and
they'll perk back up for you this is actually a Neanthe Bella Palm and this is
one of the only palms that will grow in low light levels they're very petite
they're very cute they really don't take on that huge typical palm size that you
you would think of but they're nice as a table plant they can be a shorter floor
plant and they do very very well in that low light area on the side here I have a
peace lily and this one right now is not blooming and and that happens especially
in winter sometimes they just don't have enough light energy to really produce
those blooms for you and that's okay Peace Lily has beautiful glossy medium
green leaves and they have a natural watering indicator so when they do get
dry their leaves wilt you go ahead and thoroughly moisten that soil and then
their leaves will perk back up again just be careful if you over water this
plant the leaves will also wilt so make sure that you're on the drier side
of watering maybe lift the pot up see if it's really light and then you'll know
go ahead and water again the last one that I forgot to mention that's kind of
up here in front this is a Sanseveria you might know it as snake plant our
mother-in-law's tongue as well and what's interesting about this plant you
might be familiar with it but it is really changed in the last few
years there's a lot more varieties a lot more variations heights and all
different types of leaves so again look for the snake plan it's a very easy
low-light house plant to take care of this guy is just a braided cylindrical
type which is very neat very unusual but a nice little specimen to put in off
just on an office desk you know again where maybe you're in a cubicle or an
enclosed office and you don't have a lot of you know sunlight from the windows it
doesn't matter with any of these they'll do very very well one last thing that I
wanted to mention with the low light plants again is that the work in that
that hard to read by light so again lower light levels and we find that a
lot in office spaces and the more plants you can put in your office space the
better your creativity your productivity creative ideas creative thought all of
that comes with bringing house plants into that space and it's a lot to do
with that increased oxygen around you so if you wanna you know have a better mood
at the office and definitely get more creative and more productive at the
office house plants are really a way to go so check out these low light
houseplants at a Petitti's near you enjoy