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Transform your home with decorative plants
Those who prefer decorative plants know how to fill their home with life, and in this aspect we cannot forget that nature is charming and gives us beautiful details.
When we talk about decorative plants we find a wide variety of options, both for the garden and for indoor plants. The problem is that many find it difficult to choose which one to take home, but don't worry, here you will discover how to choose them.
Top 8 of the best decorative plants for interiors
The plants inside the house inject life, energy and a lot of aesthetics, so pay attention to the following selection so that you can choose your favorites.
1. Delicious Monstera
Also known as Adam's rib or cerimán, it is a beautiful tropical plant of good size, which provides a very natural and somewhat wild appearance.
It is perfect to place it in halls or to decorate the corners of large rooms, when it reaches a considerable size.
It stands out a lot on walls with a plain background, preferably white. Its peculiar image attracted decorators from the 60s and 70s, thus beginning its fame and distribution.
This plant can be indoors and outdoors, but without direct sunlight, just keep it with plenty of indirect lighting. On the other hand, being a tropical plant, you must take care of its irrigation, which must keep it moist, but not to the point of drowning it.
2. Alabaster Rose
This is a type of succulent with one of the most attractive and stylized forms. The peculiar decorative indoor plants have the figure of a starry pink, even some accounts with somewhat sharp tips.
The variety of the alabaster rose is very wide, most share the green color, but there are others with cold tones, but at the same time exotic. In its appearance, different species are distinguished, but with key details that still do not deviate from the original star flower.
Being a family of succulents, their water storage skills are crucial to their survival outdoors. However, indoors we must regulate their irrigation every 3 days, without overloading them with liquid. Keep it lit, but out of direct sun.
Due to their size, they are ideal to have them on the desk, shelves, centerpieces or on a dresser.
3. Plant of happiness
Also called water stick or brazilwood, it is a hardy plant for semi-humid conditions. The plant captivates for its rustic trunk that is adorned with its nascent leaves in the form of ribbons, these with their striking green and yellow colors in the center.
Outdoors the plant can grow tall when left free, but indoors it is advisable to prune it to maintain its size. As you do this, the trunk will thicken and leaves will sprout from where you cut.
This is a species that can survive in hot conditions, but will not bring out their colors like they do in more humid environments.
You can keep it in temperatures from 15 to 25 °C, watering it every two days and spraying its leaves. The idea with this is to keep it moisturized, but not to drown it out.
You can place it in halls or to decorate some room in your house from the floor.
4. Areca palm
The areca plant is a kind of refined palm, this is due to the thinness of the leaves of its extensions. This is what makes it one of the best natural resources to decorate any room in the house, with normal temperatures, regardless of the style of decoration.
This palm is resistant to outdoor weather, and although it can withstand the sun, it must be very well hydrated so as not to die. Indoors it is ideal, since you can have them well lit and control their irrigation.
To take care of it, keep the substrate slightly moist, but not in puddles, so, depending on the temperature of the place, you can water it every 3 or 2 days.
5. Calathea
This decorative plant is exotic for its striking colors. Each leaf on the top has a lightened green with dark nuances due to spots, but on the reverse, it is adorned with an intense purple.
The plant does not flower, but its unique image of curly ribbons in these shades makes it the center of attention on the floor, table or shelf wherever you want to place it.
It is crucial to keep it hydrated, so depending on the temperature, watering every 2 days is required, in addition to abundant indirect light.
6. Ribbon plant
This is one of the coolest plants on our list, its image brings freshness and being from humid climates, it suits environments such as the bathroom, laundry room or simply the living room and hall.
This is an indoor plant that, although it adapts, prefers indirect lighting together with a good moist substrate and sprays on its leaves. In the winter seasons, reduce its irrigation so that it does not die.
It is usually a small plant, with beautiful green and white colors, you can display them in pots on tables or hanging. In addition, it is very easy to reproduce it due to the children that hang from its extremities.
7. Millionaire plant plectranthus verticillatu
This is a plant that can be used both on shelves and in floating pots, the reason being that as it grows, its extensions with leaves fall naturally.
These decorative plants are somewhat circular with slightly curved edges that adorn it, they are also fleshy and shiny. At a certain time they bloom by extending upwards thin stems with small flowers that cover them.
The best of all is that it is easy to care for, you just have to keep it in a place with abundant indirect light, such as near a window, and water it only when the substrate is dry.
8. Aspidistra
This is a tropical plant that, although it does not flower, its long stylized leaves together with a modern pot, can captivate in any corner of your home.
They are considered houseplants for beginners, as they are highly resistant. Although they adapt to different temperatures, they are semi-shaded, so they do not require great lighting.
Its irrigation should be scarce, since when the stems are exceeded they rot. It is advisable to water them only when the substrate is dry.
Decorative plants are a resource that you must exploit in your home, so do not leave a corner without the magic of these plants.
