Ideal low maintenance plants for home
Plants definitely add life and natural beauty to a home. If you are too busy for some serious gardening, selecting low-maintenance plants should do the trick. You can buy a some healthy pots with nice foliage, ready to place in your home without much transplanting needed.Shrubs/Ground covers- select slow-growing shrubs & evergreens with mature, thick branches. These ensures that the plant is healthy enough to survive the first months in a new environment.
Samples: blazing star, periwinkle, foam flower, peony, hosta, Siberian iris, varieties of inedible berry-bearing plants. You can also select herbs such as oregano, sage and basil that can also used in the kitchen.
Samples: autumn joy, day lilies, purple coneflowers, New England asters, and liatris
Bulbs- these are known cold-hardy flowering plants that can survive frost and freezing temperatures.
Samples: narcissi, trilliums, tulips, fritillaria, iris, alliums, crocus, lilium, cyclamen
Indoor plants- if you wish to have indoor plants, pot ones that does not require much watering also, rotate a batch of plants every 3-4 days.
Samples: Lucky Bamboo, indoor Cacti, Cattleya, rosemary, bonsai trees
Grass- these are the hardiest plants there is, they can take care of themselves and reproduce without much help. All they need is adequate space, little water and lots of sunshine.Samples: clover, feather reeds, Chinese bamboo, big blue stem, switchgrass, turf grass varieties such as Rye, Mayers and Tiffway are great for lawns and path walks.
Trees- They only need care when young, they get more and more self-sustaining as their trunk grows mature.Samples: cone trees, hard wood like mahogany, birch, hornbeam and maple varieties.
Plants that put more work: Avoid selecting these plants as they need extra gardening like transplanting, pruning, spraying, raking and replanting.
- Roses and Orchids
- Vegetables, bedding plants like corn
- Herbaceous plants & soft creeping vines.
- Water plants