Best Indoor Plants for Your Home

Plants Are a Great Addition to Any Living Space

Regardless of where you may live In Ottawa, in a house, an apartment, a condominium, or thirty floors up in a high-rise. There is always room for plant life and choosing what works for a particular environment is not as hard as some may think. First of all, there are endless amounts of possibilities and ideas that can find the only limitation is a budget. All it takes is a little space, some patience, and an imagination when working with plants in any setting.

Finding the House Plant That Fits Your Environment

In certain cases, certain types of plants are like people that thrive on attention while others prefer seclusion. With this in mind, it is best to find a plant that fits your own personality and allowances for puttering around. This means finding plants the fit your willingness to nurture and grow and that will thrive in the lighting conditions of your dwelling in Ottawa.

Finding Plants That Need Minimum Care

This aspect of having plants in your home or apartment in Ottawa should be considered if you are away traveling as part of your career. What you need to look for are plants that do not need regular watering, they do exist and this frees you from the burden of having someone watch your plants while you are gone. Building a terrarium is one idea these are enclosed areas where, with the right plant life inside, an atmosphere is developed by the plants. It is almost like having your own personal rain forest in your home.

Find Plants that Match Your Indoor Environment in Ottawa

Consider the amount of light available, and the space or rather the placement of the plant. This is because all plants have needs that are factored into their survival. For instance, most ferns will thrive in high moisture areas such as the shower/bath room. Others like the Pothos plant enjoy more shade than direct sunlight. Plants similar to a lemon tree prefer as much sunlight as they can get.

In certain cases some plants gown indoors are able to survive outside during the summer months in Ottawa. The thing to be mindful of, is when returning them to their indoor environment, once fall approaches, you should inspect them for insects that can spread to other plants. You should look at the underside of the leaves and the stalk and branches for hitchhikers.

Pots and Plants

The container you use for a plant is essential in the plant’s overall health. The type of plant container, or pot, should be matched to the plant size. In addition, as the plant grows so should the pot change in size, this helps to avoid choking the plant roots. In this light when finding a plant for your indoor environment, it pays to understand how big the plant is expected to grow, which gives you an idea of for the type and size of the pot/container. Thus, as the plant grows, you know that only the size of the pot needs to change not the type of pot.

In the situation where a terrarium is concerned, fish tanks make a great start. They have plenty of surface area made of glass to let sufficient light in, and are easy to maintain. They can also have lids that provide extra light or not, usually for nighttime viewing only.

Getting the Right Soil in Ottawa

The importance of the soil for indoor plant life carries the same weight as the soil for outdoor plant life. There are many different indoor soil mixes for the different type of plants that people grow. For instance, cacti need a specific soil mixture, as will orchids. On a general note, however, a generic indoor potting soil should work for most indoor plant life here in Ottawa.

What matters most is when dealing with exotic indoor plants is that the soil matches closely to their native environment, going back to cacti needing a high rate of drainage, they need a pot that allows for this as well as a loosely packed type of soil that facilitates the proper amount of drainage. In the case of an orchid, their soil should have a high concentration of bark because in the natural environment they grow attaching themselves to trees.

Terrariums need a bed of gravel, (made for aquariums, or pea gravel), at the bottom with a layer of charcoal thinly spread on top, followed by a sheet of plastic or moss and finally with potting soil deep enough for the plant roots to take hold. It sounds complicated however it is not as difficult as it sounds. The thing is to pay careful attention to the needs of the plants you choose to join your indoor environment in Ottawa. If your choices are correct, both the plants and you will thrive and grow together.

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