How To Care For Your House Plants
The Late Afternoon guide to how to look after house plants and use them around the home to create interest and harmony...
We all have a fantasy of decorating your home with a thriving selection of house plants.
Aside from adding a chic, jungly touch, they have many other benefits, from purifying the air to boosting wellbeing with therapeutic watering.
But surely nothing is more detrimental to one’s wellbeing than watching the inexplicable slow decline of your plants as you (literally) drown them with your love and well-meaning ministrations?
So here is our guide on how to style them and how to place them around your home, as well as the all important question of how to look after them.
How to style your house plants
Bathrooms
Plants in bathrooms are great as plants soften the hard edges of sanitaryware and tiles. Bathrooms are also humid, which lots of house plants like, particularly ferns.
Kitchen shelves and counters
Placing plants around on kitchen shelves and counters works well for decorating spare spaces. Also, plants in the kitchen tend to get noticed and therefore cared for as your potter about. Try herbs to be handy for cooking or filling a shelf nook with a trailing plant.
Side tables
Make a feature of a side table with a cleverly placed plant (or group of pots) to add height and texture.
Try playing with heights to make the the grouping pleasing to the eye and always use an odd number.
An old-fashioned plant stand
You can track down amazing Victorian and Edwardian plant stands for full drama. Place a plant with some height or drama on a stand in a corner in a really beautiful planter to create a real moment.
How to look after them
Get to know your plants - you can’t put any plant anywhere. Some of them like lots of light or lots of humidity etc. Check the species online before putting a fern above a radiator or a money tree in a dark corner.
You can find out all the basics about looking after a certain species online for free, but the best app we’ve found is on Planta, which will guide you on care for each species, set reminders to water and diagnose problems you’re having.
How to use our basketweave planters
When watering, remove your plant from the planter and place in the sink before watering according to care advice for that species. Once the dripping has stopped, pop it back in the planter.
The large planter can fit a plant pot up to 14.5cm in diameter.
The small planter can fit a plant pot up to 9.5cm in diameter.
