Indoor Hanging Plants: 15 Trailing and Climbing Plants That Thrive
The best indoor hanging plants for baskets, shelves and ceiling hooks — including which cope with the hot, dry air that collects near a ceiling.
Indoor plants, honestly documented
Plant care advice tested in ordinary rooms — not greenhouses
Every guide here is written from keeping these plants alive in rented flats with imperfect light. Specific numbers, honest failures, and no filler.
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Indoor Water Plants: 14 That Grow in Water Without Any Soil
Which indoor plants grow permanently in water, how to set up a bottle or vase properly, and the feeding and water-change routine that stops them stalling.
Indoor Bamboo Plant Care: Lucky Bamboo, Real Bamboo and the Difference
Lucky bamboo is not bamboo. Here is how to care for each type indoors, why stalks turn yellow, how many stalks to keep, and which true bamboos survive inside.
Rubber Plant Indoor Care and Benefits (Indoor or Outdoor?)
Ficus elastica care indoors: light, watering, why leaves drop, how to make it branch instead of growing into a single pole, and whether it can live outside.
Jade Plant Indoor or Outdoor? Care, Placement and Vastu
Whether to keep a jade plant indoors or outside, how often to water it, why leaves drop or go soft, and where vastu and feng shui place it for prosperity.
Spider Plant Indoor Care: Brown Tips, Babies and Why It's the Best Beginner Plant
How to grow a spider plant indoors, why the leaf tips go brown, how to root the plantlets, and how to get an established plant to produce babies.
Peace Lily Indoor Plant: Benefits, Care and Why It Stops Flowering
What a peace lily actually does for your home, how to care for one indoors, and the reasons it wilts, browns or refuses to flower — with fixes for each.
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Plant picks
Shortlists of the best indoor plants for every situation, chosen on how they actually perform in homes rather than on how they photograph.
Plant guides
Species-by-species care guides — light, water, soil, feeding, propagation and the problems each plant is prone to indoors.
Room by room
Which indoor plants suit a living room, bedroom, office, bathroom or kitchen — matched to the light and humidity each room really has.
Air & wellbeing
Air purifying plants, oxygen producers, mosquito repellents and scented plants — with the evidence behind each claim, stated plainly.
Vastu & feng shui
Which plants and placements vastu shastra and feng shui recommend indoors — and how to follow the tradition without putting a plant somewhere it will die.
Easy care & light
Plants for dark rooms and busy people: what low light really means, which species tolerate it, and when a grow light is the honest answer.
Soil, water & pots
The unglamorous half of indoor gardening: soil mixes, fertiliser, watering methods and choosing pots that do not drown your plants.
Who writes this
Mara Ellis, Horticulturist & founder. Mara has kept indoor plants alive in five rented apartments across three climates. She trained in horticulture at RHS level 2 and has been writing about houseplants since 2016.
Every guide records when it was last reviewed — the most recent update was 28 August 2026. Read the editorial policy.