Happy New Year everyone this is Noelle at Petitti Garden Centers in Oakwood Village
and we're bringing in the new year with some houseplants it's actually national
appreciation of house plant day or something like that house plant
appreciation day coming up really really soon at the beginning of January so I'm
gonna show you three of my favorite houseplants these houseplants are the
easiest some of the easiest I've ever grown and believe me you'll be able to
grow them too I wanted to show you a low-light version
I wanted to show you a medium light version and I also wanted to show you a
high light version because they're all are all different types of light levels
and people's homes and offices so basically that's what we're gonna talk
about today why should you grow house plants because they're great air
purifiers they really provide a lot of oxygen in your home they can clean out
what they call volatile organic compounds as well so they're great to
have around and that increased oxygen actually reduces stress it actually will
help you sleep better at night so it's great to be surrounded by houseplants
this first one that I have here is called a ZZ plant I'm not even going
to say the full name it is really really difficult
this plant is actually from Africa but believe it or not it is a great
low-light specimen this plant you can put in offices bathrooms that have no
windows hallways when we talk about low-light it is just enough that you can
read by okay so even in a corner of a room and the room has very small windows
or maybe not so clean windows it might have some low light and the ZZ plant
would love it the key with the ZZ is that it likes average room temperatures
you can probably go up to about eighty degrees but actually anywhere between 60
to 80 degrees it would be very happy the other thing that it really likes is it
likes a drier soil when you touch this plant it has sort of a leathery feel to
it and you can tell that these stems get a
little bit more bulbous at the base or thicker at the base that's because it's
storing a lot of water so this plant for the most part you can treat it like a
succulent but again lower light areas and you can really let it go dry to the
touch before you have to water it again when you do water thoroughly moisten the
soil let the water drip out of the bottom
don't let it sit in water and then you're ready to go put it back where you
want it okay the medium-light plant you're probably very familiar with this
is a spider plant very very common this is actually one of your best air
purifiers out there takes care of a lot of those volatile organic compounds that
I was talking about but they're so easy they're pet friendly and they just do
what they're supposed to do what we love about your spider plants is that you can
place them on a table on a shelving unit you can also hang them up so you can get
your macrame out because that's coming back in this style and get your plant
hangers out and you can hang them up surrounded by spider plants is a great
way to get that oxygen up and again medium light is like a bright lit room
or bright windows but pulling it about five to eight foot away from those
windows so you still have some ambient light around you but there's no direct
sunlight it's just kind of in the middle of the room ok so again these guys are
great for the office they're great for those medium light areas in your home I
think even you would appreciate a spider plant right on a bedside table or
nightstand they do an excellent job for you and provide some great humidity the
other thing is they propagate really easily so every one of these baby
spider plants can be just removed potted up in a little bit of potting soil a
little moist potting soil they do fine watering wise a little bit on the drier
side of watering and you can kind of tall because either you pick up the pot
and it feels really light or you'll get a slight wilt from this place
and then again thoroughly moisten the soil they can take household
temperatures again about sixty to seventy-five degrees okay so normal
household temperatures and they can take a little bit more moisture so if you
tend to overwater that's okay with the spider plant the last one is this very
bright light plant this is actually a bromeliad and there's lots of different
types of bromeliad shaped styles and varieties what we love about the
bromeliad is that the foliage and the action of this bright colorful foliage
is really part of that flowering unit if you will but it's all foliage color and
so whenever you have a brightly colored plant that's going to indicate that it
needs brighter light levels inside the house again it does not need to be in
direct sunlight at all in fact sometimes bromeliads can be burned on the leaves
with too much direct Sun but in a bright area maybe a little bit away from the
window like on a table as a centerpiece if you have a nice dining room window
that's a great place for this plant the other thing that we like about
bromeliads is this color will stay nine months maybe twelve months out of the
year and all you need to do is actually pour water right inside there they're
what they call cistern it's a leaf cluster right inside you pour the water
you let it sit there for about a week and then guess what dump it out and
reapply after that week and you're ready to go another little bonus there is the
air plant the air plant is actually a relative of the bromeliad and if you are
really not into necessarily planting your plants the air plants can just be
placed on shelves wherever a windowsill what-have-you and
you can sit them there and then they do appreciate some miss teens so with a
spray bottle you can go ahead and miss them they can go from bright light
levels all the way down to about medium light levels in a low light level you
might start to see this gray kind of turn more of a green a darker green and
all you have to do a spray mist maybe a
couple times a week and they'll do wonderfully for you and just hang around
so again three types of houseplants all four different light levels so low
medium and bright light again we're not talking about direct sunlight through
windows because after all in winter in Northeast Ohio you don't get a lot of
light through the through the windows at this time of year and it's typically
dark and gray so these plants will do very very well for you they're very easy
care and again just something that you will always succeed at inside as your
houseplants okay so we're gonna actually be making more house plant videos coming
up we're going to talk about a little bit more about lighting we're going to
be talking about watering which is always a really popular topic with
houseplants so do stay tuned enjoy