Easy To Grow Tropical House Plants
If you are a beginner indoor gardener, tropical house plants are ideal if you want a flowering plant to add color to a room. If you see a tropical house plant that is labeled sub-tropical or semi tropical this just means they can be considered either tropical or as a regular house plant. In both cases they are recommended as easy to care for tropical house plants. Indoor gardening can be fun and a great tool for stress relief.
Tropical bonsai add color and interest to all rooms, whether its in your home or office. Another bonus is many of these tropical’s can act as indoor air purifiers which makes these some of the best house plants. Indoor tropical trees used in decorating can soften the harsh lines of a corner or add height, when you only have small house plants.
Tropical House Plants For Sale
Palm House Plants
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This Palm hosue plant is a long-lived, exotic palm that tolerates neglect but thrives with attention. Adapts to indirect light or full sun and has a wide temperature range from 15 to 120 degrees F. A slow growth rate allows indoor specimens to remain in the same container indefinitely.
Exotic Tropical House Plants
Flowering Red Anthurium has long lasting of all tropical flowers.
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These bright red colored beauties (currently in bloom) are the most well known the world over. Real Hawaiian lava rock is hand selected to provide a happy home for your Anthurium. Our Anthuriums have been specially hybridized for use as houseplants due to their trouble-free growing requirements.
Dracaena
View details here: This indoor houseplant is commonly called the Madagascar Dragon Tree. The Marginata shown here has a slender trunk and a near vertical to horizontal mass of narrow pointed green leaves with red to purple stripes along the outer edge.
Other notable Semi – tropical house plants
Norfolk Island Pine
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One of the best known trees from the South Pacific. Will tolerate warm temperatures and does not even object to dryness, although it does not like glaring sunshine. Decorates well for any holiday or season.
Basic Tropical House Plants Care
Tropical house plants should receive adequate sunlight and humidity, to remain healthy. When tropical indoor trees and plants don’t receive enough sunlight and there is bright light coming from a nearby window they will start to lean that way. This isn’t good especially for tropical bonsai trees that you are shaping. If there is no light, the leaves will also start to fade.
You don’t need a lot of heat to grow tropical indoor plants like bonsai they only require average temperatures between 55 and 75 degrees year round. This is the average temperature in most homes and offices which make these house plants ideal for growing indoors. Some may require high humidity to grow and flower well. This can be accomplished with a humidity drip tray which is recommended for all bonsai plants, low light house plants and flowering trees.
Its said that many of these indoor tropical house plants can help in purifying the air in your house by absorbing harmful chemicals. It has also been mentioned that they can absorb static electricity and somewhat reduce the amount of dust in a room. The Nasa plant study on clean air did this you can go read more here if you want.
Tropical plants for southern California should have a constant temperature. The ideal growing temperature should be between 55 and 75 degrees. If kept outside, say on a patio, make sure that they are not exposed to frost during winter months. Most houseplants, such as tropical bonsai plants, need bright, indirect light and supplemental humidity to thrive. This is why we always recommend adding a humidity drip tray when ever we offer tropical plants for sale at the nursery. For yearly care or repotting use a good plant fertilizer and potting soil mix.
