Even plants that do well in outdoor shade tend to need more light when grown indoors and this can be hard to come by unless you provide auxiliary lighting.
Tropical indoor plants low light.
Here are 20 indoor plants that thrive on low light.
However quite a few can survive in low light conditions so before you get skylights installed or replace all your real plants with fake ones maybe reconsider your choice of house plant.
There are some house plant species that positively thrive on little or no light.
North facing rooms or rooms with no windows are considered low light rooms.
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But all is not lost.
If you ve ever tried to grow plants in your basement you ll know that they don t like darkness.
Spider plants native to tropics around the globe and the first houseplant for innumerable people probably owes its popularity to its unique growth habit and for its ease of growth as a low light houseplant the mother plant a clump of curving leaves that resemble long broad grass blades sends out long stems with baby plants at their ends.
The plant will live in low light but you ll need to make sure you apply enough when water.
Medium light would be in an east or west facing room.
Begonia begonia semperflorens begonia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family begoniaceae.
Up to 12 inches tall.
While they are famous for their survival abilities under low light conditions peace lilies help cleanse the air as well.
The genus contains 1 795 different plant species.
The good news is plenty of plants can thrive in a dark apartment.
Available in dark green and variegated forms spider plant chlorophytum comosum makes a great tabletop or basket plant in low light conditions.
During the winter mist the plants frequently to help prevent the leaf tips from turning brown.
When the soil is dry to the touch.
It is one of those indoor tropical that prefers high light.
If your room has no windows you should leave lights on 12 hours a day or rotate low light plants into the room for a few weeks at a time before moving them back to a naturally lit room.
Some even do better in shadier spaces if you can believe it.
Low light or indirect light.
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Low light conditions are always a challenge for the indoor gardener.
In fact plants need light to survive.
So when we talk about the best indoor plants for low light conditions what we really are trying to identify is the plants most tolerant of living in a dark apartment with one wall of windows or possibly one window.