The Best Easy & Hard to Kill Houseplants

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My wife has plant blood on her hands. I was originally planning to show her this but literally the first recommendation was one of the plants she killed.

  So maybe not for us. 🙃

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If she killed a plant by overwatering it, recommend a fern. If instead it’s gone dry, recommend a succulent.

    All plants need a certain amount of real sunlight even if indirect. I’ve seen people wondering why they die, and they keep them in rooms with hardly any natural light.

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• BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Surprised that Arrowhead plants (syngonium) aren’t included on the list. There’s a good variety of colors, and they need way less attention than I expected. I’m having pretty great luck with them in my low-light apartment.

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• SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Starting off with aloe, man it’s not looking good for me, it’s a bloodbath out here on my windowsill for those lads

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  • MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aloe vera doesn’t like too much sunlight. You want ambient light / not a lot of indirect light. Maybe 1-2hrs tops per day. No expert but that was my finding with aloe.

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    • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No such thing as too much sun here in the nordics. I just murder them with all other ingenious ways

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    • wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My aloe is an outdoor plant here in Australia. Full afternoon sun. I think they acclimatise to certain conditions.

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• toaster@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m a big fan of pothos! So lush and easy to take care of.

  Snake plants are super easy if you just ignore them but I find people starting out with houseplants tend to overwater which snake plants do not like.

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  • dpflug@hachyderm.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @toaster
    Sanseveria are amazing. Mine gets watered every month or three. It's fine. :blobfoxlaugh:

    The only caveat is if you've got pets who chew plants, they're mildly toxic.
    @fossilesque @houseplants

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• SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve had a Dracaena Marginata for about 4 or 5 years now, I’ve had periods where I’ve forgotten to water it for a few weeks, and it’s still going strong. This year I repotted it to let the roots grow out more, and honestly I should have done it sooner, but I didn’t think it was doing this well.

  I’d like to make it grow more straight upright but it’s getting lopsided, even though I’ve rotated it every month or so.

  I specifically chose it because I heard they were hard to kill, and wanted something I didn’t need to be too attentive to if life and depression got in the way.

  It has certainly lived up to its hardy reputation.

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