LOW LIGHT/BRIGHT INDIRECT PLANT LIST
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“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”
You’ve been itching to add some greenery to your home, but don’t know where to start. Do not worry we shall form a list of plants that can help with making these fun decisions of adding a plant to our daily rituals. This will be a short, but informative post that plays with my previous journal entry of light requirements for plants.
Some plants live in a range of light requirements and they do change characteristics, but can live a long beautiful life in these light conditions. Once we find the right plant for the right place we can truly start to enjoy the process of being a plant parent.
Low Light (PPF:50-150 mol m-2s-1/ 50-250 foot candles/ 10-15 watts) - would be a north facing window or a dark corner that still can cast a shadow. This means enough light is still entering the room and if you are able to read a book with out any artificial lighting a low light categorized plant would love its new home. Note that north facing windows never receive direct sunlight so we will always categorize it as a Low Light to Indirect Bright Light area.
Aglaonema - Chinese Evergreen
Aglaonema ‘Lady Valentine’
Low Light - Indirect Bright Light - Medium Light
Allow to dry down between waterings.
In low light/Indirect Bright light check soil 10-14 days
Silver Queen
Silver Bay
Dictum Tricolor
Crete
Siam Aurora
Chocolate
Sparkiling Sarah
Aspidistra - Cast Iron Plant
Beaucarnea recurvata - Ponytail palm
Chamaedorea - Parlor Palm - Neanthe Bella Palm
Dieffenbachia - Dumb Cane
Dieffenbachia ‘Compacta’
Low light/Indirect Bright Light/ Bright Light
Allow plant to dry down half way between waterings. In lower light settings check 10-14 days to see how well it dried down and make adjustments to watering schedule.
Not pet friendly*
Camille
Carina
Delilah
Exotica
Honeydew
Sarah
Snow
Sparkles
Tiki
Tropic Marianne
Tropic Snow
Panther
Dracaena
Janet Craig
Lisa Cane
Mona Lisa
Corn Plant
Snake Plant * Formerly Sansevieria trifasciata
“When in doubt, give it another day to dry out”
Hedera helix - English Ivy
Howeia - Kentia Palm
Homalomena
Epipremnum - Pothos ***
Marble Queen
Golden
Neon
Njoy
Snow Queen
Philodendron
Philodendron Cordatum (hederaceum) ‘Brasil’
Low Light/Indirect Bright Light/Medium Light
In Lower light allow plant to dry down more then half way down. Check every 10-14 days.
In brighter light check every 7-10 days to gauge how quickly the water is being used up by the plant.
Micans
Rhapis excelsa - Lady Palm
Sansevieria trifasciata - Snake Plant
Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Night Owl’
Low Light - Indirect Bright Light- Medium Light
Allow to dry in between waterings. I like to neglect my Snake plants. I check them every 10-14 days and “If in doubt, give it another day to dry out”
Laurentii
Moonshine
Black Coral
Fernwood Mikado
Superba
Whale Fin (longiflora)
Starfish
Zeylanica
Cylindrica
Spathiphyllum - Peace Lily
Syngonium - Arrowhead Plant
Zamioculcas- Zee Zee Plant
