Home indoor plants in pots (95 photos): decor options

Indoor trees and flowering plants from time immemorial have created a cozy atmosphere at home, bringing happiness and love, peace and tranquility to their owners.

But home gardening is becoming especially relevant right now, in the context of the busy pace of life in large cities. After the abundance of concrete, glass and metal, people have an urgent need to create a small green oasis at home for communication with wildlife.

Indoor trees of various types (coffee, lemon, dollar, money), as well as small flowering potted crops for growing on window sills and shelves (senpolia, spathiphyllum, undersized varieties of Chinese roses) are perfectly suited for this.

Indoor trees and flowers can not only feel, but also create a mood for their owners. Living plants in the house relieve stress and fatigue, give love and happiness, ennoble the interior, help cleanse the air of pathogens and create a special microclimate in the room. Not one, even the most expensive composition of artificial and cut flowers, can replace the potted fresh flowers growing in the house.

All plants in the house are classified according to three large groups:

• Decorative foliage. These include indoor trees and various plants whose aesthetic value lies in beautiful leaves. The leaves can be light and dark green, variegated marble in color, as well as so bright colors that they are quite capable of replacing flowers. Widely used in the interior of plants and with the original shape of the leaves - linear, lobed, with a dissected or jagged edge.

• Decorative blooming. These include perennials that bloom all year round, as well as annual and tuberous pot plants with a seasonal flowering period. Perennial flowering crops, unlike annuals, remain decorative for a long period and do not die after flowering. Tuberous flowering plants have the ability to fall asleep in the winter after falling flowers and leaves. Annual plants are widely used in the interior to create short-lived but beautiful compositions of fresh flowers.

• Cacti and succulents. These include representatives of different families, similar in biological and external characteristics. Plants are stable and unpretentious in indoor maintenance, compact and have an incredible variety of shapes. Due to its unique properties, as well as exclusively decorative flowering, this group of plants has become widespread in indoor culture.

Many ornamental plants are also fruitful at the same time, delighting their owners with tasty and healthy fruits (lemon and tangerine trees).

What crops are most common in indoor floriculture and what are they remarkable for? The mini-ratings of the most famous home plants include:

A coffee tree

Indoor coffee tree will be a wonderful decoration of the interior thanks to large evergreen leaves and decorative snow-white flowers with a sweet aroma.

Exotic coffee tree refers to fruit trees, the berries of which, after ripening, harvesting and roasting, acquire the familiar form of coffee beans.

Only two types of coffee trees are suitable for growing a house - Liberian and Arabian. An adult coffee plant can produce up to 0.5 kg of fruit per year.

Lemon Tree

Lemon tree is a very decorative fruit plant. Natural types of lemon are unsuitable for home growing in pots, since in natural conditions they reach quite large sizes.

Therefore, breeders bred dwarf varieties of lemon trees — these are Pavlovsky lemon, Maykop lemon, Genoa and others. The evergreen lemon tree does not require special care, and when properly maintained, it is capable of fruiting all year round.

You can grow a lemon tree at home from seeds. And the creation of homemade lemonaria from several lemon trees will not only refresh the interior, but also fully provide the average family with delicious lemons.

Tangerine tree

Mandarin tree, like lemon, refers to the evergreen citrus fruit trees.

And although in natural conditions tangerine trees do not grow so large and overall, for growing a house it is better to choose dwarf crops - Clementine, Unshiu, tangerine trees of the Vasa group, etc.

Mandarin is unpretentious and simple in home maintenance. Like a lemon tree, mandarin can be easily grown from a regular seed. Dark green shiny leaves, small beautiful flowers with a delicate aroma and bright orange fruits look very beautiful in the interior.

Banana tree

A banana plant can be grown at home both as a fruit and as an ornamental.

Even in indoor conditions, this large herbaceous plant, very similar to a tree, reaches a height of 2 meters.

Popular varieties are velvety decorative banana with inedible fruits and Kiev dwarf fruit banana with large and sweet fruits.

Bottle tree

The bottle tree is ideal for spacious, bright rooms. If at home it becomes a giant, then at home the bottle tree grows just big.

The bottle tree got its name due to the thickening at the base of the trunk, where this living plant organism stores water.

Bottle tree also has the ability to purify and ozonize the air, reducing the risk of respiratory diseases. Bottle tree - a single plant that does not require a company in the interior of the room.

Chinese rose

Chinese rose is a tree-like plant with large beautiful flowers of various shades. Rose is appreciated in the interior precisely for its beautiful flowers. Chinese rose blooms for almost the entire warm period. Rose flowers live only 2-3 days, but an adult bush of Chinese rose constantly releases new buds, so the general flowering is quite long. The bred hybrids of the Chinese rose have not only monophonic, but also two-tone colors.

The plant is so unpretentious that a large tree, strewn with bright flowers, quickly grows from a small stalk of a Chinese rose.

If you periodically pinch the side shoots, then the rose bush will be not only large, but also lush. The Chinese rose is one of the most beloved plants and experienced gardeners, and just lovers of indoor plants.

Mini Bonsai Trees

Bonsai is a real living tree in miniature. Such mini-trees are very popular in Japan, where bonsai cultivation has become an art. It takes decades to grow a bonsai by all rules, so ordinary mini-tree lovers limit themselves to changing the shape of the pot and forming the crown of a bonsai tree.

In this case, indoor trees acquire a relatively miniature appearance, but they are still far from a mini.Almost all types of indoor trees (ficus, maple, money tree) with a powerful root system are suitable for creating a bonsai.

The original bonsai can be obtained by forming the bends of the trunk and crown. For bonsai, a beautiful bark and a healthy tree trunk also matter. The basis of the creation of bonsai is made up of thick branches of a tree, which should be trimmed correctly, guiding their growth. Even from asymmetrically growing branches, you can eventually create a beautiful asymmetric bonsai. In the interior, the mini-tree looks very unusual and requires careful care.

Snake tree

The snake tree got its name because of its rapid growth and spotty coloring of the trunk. This exotic perennial tuberous plant has a pronounced period of seasonal dormancy.

At the top of the only shoot of a snake tree, very decorative, intricately dissected leaves unfold, forming a dense flat crown. To start flowering, the snake tree must have a large and developed tuber.

The inflorescence of a snake tree is very beautiful, but it smells pretty bad. The snake tree is intended for lovers of exotic seasonal plants.

Money (dollar) tree

Both money (Crassula) and dollar (Zamiokulkas) trees bring good luck in money matters to the house. It is believed that the money tree has an impact on the domestic currency, and the dollar tree has an impact on the foreign one.

Also, contrary to the well-known proverb that happiness is not in money, popular rumor considers these trees to be a magnet of happiness, love and luck. Money and dollar trees are perfect for any interior and do not require particularly complicated maintenance.

Also, indoor plants have long been recognized as talismans of happiness and love: senpolia, anthurium (male happiness), spathiphyllum (female happiness), geranium, aichrison (tree of happiness), hoya, Dracaena Sandera (bamboo of happiness), Chinese rose, calathea, sour and ficus. They stand guard over family happiness, bring love to the house, contribute to the happiness of motherhood.