Keep your houseplants thriving indoors. Care guides for foliage plants, succulents, cacti, and potted favorites, covering light, watering, humidity, repotting, and how to fix the most common indoor-plant problems.
Rosary vine looks fussy but is easy once you treat this trailing string of hearts like a succulent – light, gritty soil, lean watering, and easy propagation.
Night blooming cereus is easy to grow but slow to flower. Learn the bright light, airy soil, careful watering, and cool winter rest behind its yearly bloom.
Schefflera goes leggy and drops leaves when light or watering is off. Learn to keep your umbrella plant bushy indoors, prune it to size, and beat root rot.
Mother of thousands sprouts baby plantlets on every leaf, so it grows easily but spreads fast. Master the light, water, soil, and containment it needs.
A sundew plant dies fast in tap water and ordinary soil. Learn the mineral-free water, peat-sand mix, light, feeding, and dormancy that keep Drosera thriving.
A staghorn fern is an epiphytic Platycerium that thrives mounted on a board, not potted. Learn how to mount, soak-water, fertilize, and fix browning fronds.
Cordyline rewards you with vivid red, pink, and cream foliage when you get the light and water right. Learn to grow the ti plant indoors and outdoors.
The zebra plant browns and drops leaves at the first slip in care. Here is the light, watering, humidity, and pruning that keep Aphelandra squarrosa in bloom.
Foxtail fern is a tough asparagus relative that is easy to overwater. Learn the light, free-draining soil, and watering rhythm to grow it well indoors or out.
The goldfish plant wants bright indirect light, an airy fast-draining mix, and even watering to bloom indoors. Learn to trigger its fish-shaped flowers.
The maidenhair fern has a diva reputation, but its delicate fronds stay lush once you nail bright indirect light, steady moisture, and high humidity.
Cast iron plant survives deep shade, dry spells, and the neglect that kills other houseplants. Learn how to grow Aspidistra elatior indoors and outdoors.