Easy-care indoor plants: These species are tough
Who does not have a green thumb, must be limited to cacti?
Wrong! We introduce you to various types of indoor plants,
which are not only very easy to care for, but also very robust and durable.
The Zamie or Zamioculcas is such an easy-care houseplant that it gets along almost completely without care measures
that cacti are extremely easy-care indoor plants, everyone knows.
That there are however still many more easy-care indoor plants,
which are hard in the taking and prosper quasi as by itself, is against it hardly known.
We have put together a varied selection of particularly robust
and easy-care species for which you definitely don't need a green thumb.
Which indoor plants are easy to care for?
- Kentia Palm
- Golden fruit palm
- Bow hemp
- ivy hen
- Elephant foot
- Dragon tree
- Monstera
- Yucca
- rubber tree
- Zambia
Easy-care indoor plants for palm lovers
The Kentia palm (Howea forsteriana) is surprisingly easy to care for and its spreading,
evergreen fronds create a vacation atmosphere within your own four walls.
Fortunately, it only needs a light to semi-shady location,
a constant room temperature all year round and a suitable substrate.
We recommend palm soil from a specialist shop or a 1:1 mixture of potting soil and sand.
Water moderately, fertilize much less, and if you provide a new pot about every four years,
nothing will stand in the way of a long common future.
No less exotic and also a very easy-care indoor plant
is the golden fruit palm or Areca (Dypsis lutescens/Chrysalidocarpus lutescens).
It also thrives at normal room temperature, but needs a lot of light.
You have the least effort if you keep the Golden Fruit Palm in hydroponics,
but conventional potting soil will do as well.
If you place the palm tree in a coaster filled with water,
there is even no need to water it, because the houseplant simply gets what it needs itself.
It also purifies the air and improves the indoor climate.
A bright, but sunny location is perfect for the golden fruit palm
Easy-care indoor plant classics
It is a true indoor plant classic - not least because it is so easy to care for:
When caring for bow hemp (Sansevieria trifasciata),
you can do almost nothing wrong.
The succulent plant appreciates warm, bright rooms without drafts - who doesn't?
Watering is done sparingly, in winter once a month is really enough.
The ivy (Epipremnum pinnatum) is an easy-care indoor plant with heart-shaped, fresh green leaves.
It is classically placed in a hanging basket.
It grows both in potting soil and in hydroponics in a light to semi-shady place in the home.
Longer watering intervals are urgently desired for maintenance - the ivy hen is very frugal.
The plant remains healthy and vital if fertilized from time to time.
As a green curtain or room divider the ivy mare is a real eye-catcher
Asparagus plants as easy-care indoor plants
You do not know the family of the asparagus plants (Asparagaceae) yet?
Some species are easy to care for and are ideal for beginners.
For example, the elephant foot (Beaucarnea recurvata, Syn. Nolina recurvata),
a succulent tree that can store so much water in its thickened trunk that it hardly needs to be watered at all.
It stands perfectly in a sunny place in the room, but can also move outside in summer.
In winter, the robust elephant foot likes it a little cooler.
As substrate cactus soil is suitable, in spring you can lure it from hibernation with some fertilizer (also for cacti).
The yucca or palm lily (Yucca elephantipes),
although no palm tree is colloquially often called yucca palm,
is considered a typical "student plant" due to its ease of care.
The location should be sunny, minimally cooler in winter than in summer,
and conventional house plant soil is completely sufficient as substrate.
During the growing season, water once a week (exceptions will be graciously forgiven),
in winter once a month is sufficient, since yucca can also store water.
If you forget to repot the houseplant every few years,
it will keep its growth more compact than necessary,
but you don't have to worry about that either.
In the Canary Islands, the Canarian Dragon Tree (Dracaena draco) grows wild,
in our home as an easy to care for indoor plant.
Without much effort, it grows up to two meters high in a bright place without blazing sun.
Whether in hydroponics or in potting soil mixed with sand or gravel,
the dragon tree does not need much water and only a little liquid green plant fertilizer every now and then.
A new pot is due every few years - and that's it.
Easy-care indoor plants with large leaves
Jungle feeling at home is not only reserved for plant experts.
Even trendy plants like the Monstera (Monstera deliciosa),
also called window leaf, are in fact absolutely easy to care for.
As an indoor plant, it only needs a light to semi-shady and warm location,
some liquid fertilizer and regular watering.
If you dust the huge leaves two or three times a year,
you will enjoy this beautiful decorative plant for your room for a long time.
Large-leaved houseplants like the rubber tree should be dusted occasionally
The rubber tree (Ficus elastica) produces strikingly large,
wonderfully shiny leaves - almost entirely without your intervention.
Place the houseplant in a light to semi-shaded location in a pot with houseplant soil.
At normal room temperature and better with too little water than too much,
it will provide fresh greenery in your home for many years.
Because it is so robust, occasional fertilization in spring and summer is sufficient to keep the plant healthy.
Repotting, too, is only due when the pot has taken root completely.
"The hardest indoor plant in the world"
When it comes to easy-care indoor plants, the Zamie (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) should not be missing.
This exotic-looking leafy ornamental plant is basically forgiving of any care error,
no matter how big, and is hard to get dead even without a green thumb.
Give it a bright place without direct sunlight and occasionally some water.
There is really nothing more to say about care.
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