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I posted a while ago about Boston ferns being easy to care for... but look at this guy, just look. Isn’t he cuuuuute! And so easy to care for! I had always wanted one but the big hanging baskets can be quite expensive, and I just coudn’t justify spending that much money on a plant. I bought this guy in a 4″ pot with just a few fronds and I was so happy! He’s grown so much since then and he’s loving life right now under a florescent lamp. It’s pretty dark, cold and miserable outside, but my planties make me feel joy even in the middle of winter.

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Easy indoor plants

So yeah, I’m a confessed plant hoarder. Almost every other day I come home with a new plant. Some do really well in my condo (I live on the 16th floor, west facing so I get all the afternoon sun and it’s very dry in the summer), others not so much. Here’s a little list of indoor plants that thrive with little care:

Bird’s nest ferns are super cute! they are easy to take care of and they grow very fast! I’ve had mine for about 6 months and it has grown so much, plus it has never gotten any pests. Being a fern, I thought it would need high humidity it’s not fuzzy about it. It likes filtered light and will even take some direct sun. Highly recommend it!

Haworthias are another easy plant. All the succulents I got last year got either sick or I threw them out because they were dying, except for this guy, which is one of the most common, the zebra haworthia. The only thing I don’t like is that it grows very slowly, it will stay at 5″ tall, other than that I love it!

This beauty here is called Peperomia glabella. I got it 6 months ago in a 2″ pot, and it was literally 3 leggy stems, but I liked the leaves so i brought it home. I didn’t even know what it was called then, but I experimented with cutting the longest stems and putting them in water. To my surprise they rooted easily and they are now part of the full plant. It is a semi succulent so allow the soil to dry before watering or you will get root rot. It has never gotten any pests or diseases.

This guy is a Sprengeri or Asparagus fern and it grows with a passion! Asides from being so adorable (it reminds me of Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons) it’s super easy to care for! It has had one aphid infestation but they all died easily after I sprayed the plant with an alcohol/soap/water solution and the plant didn’t seem to suffer much from this. The only thing you have to be careful of is watering. If you let the soil dry out too much between waterings the little leaflets will turn yellow and fall off.

Another easy one is the Boston fern. I’ve had it for about a month and it’s growing very fast and looking super cute all green like that! I mist it once in a while and it doesn’t seem to mind some filtered sun - I got home late one day and the blinds were up, so it got a whole afternoon of sun, but it didn’t burn luckily! Broad leafed ferns seem to be much less fuzzy about light/humidity than the fine leafed ones.