Yes. I’ve a new-ish 2 year old that thinks I have plants just for her to chew. I’ve learned: no pony tail palms, no ferns, no plant with waving leaves at all. Lol. She also nibbles pathos leaves (not enough to get sick it seems) and my snake plants have a few teeth holes in them. We’ve had to have discussions about the chewing. Luckily, as she’s aged she’s getting better about it.
I really appreciate how you covered all the bases for each plant on care level ease, lighting, and safety to animals. It had been so frustrating to research plants, find some great ones that are hard to kill, only to have to cross reference it with safe for animals article. Thank you for covering it all! You mentioned a few plants I hadn't heard of that are safe for animals that I'm looking forward to finding!
I scorched my baby prayer plant keeping it by the window, it didn’t survive. But I was able to chop the leaves and wait patiently for a couple months and it’s finally popped its 2nd leaf and has a spot in the house it likes a lot more now
Oh this takes me back. I fell for the low light myths. If your home has no natural light, buy grow lights and be done with it. Or go through slowly murdering the plants you bought, like I did. Learning the hard way sucks.
I have a castor oil plant that is over 50 years old and been with me since I was 17. I moved her into Pon and that has stunted her big time.so we’re heading back into soil I can send you a couple of leaves if you would like an old lady to look after !! 🌿💚
Oh wow that's amazing! Some plants in my experience don't love pon as much as I'd have thought they would, so the transition back to soil sounds like a good one. That's a very kind offer - perhaps when I move and I have a little bit more space, thank you 💚
thanks for the informative video. when you say that some plants are toxic or poisonous, such as the 'English Ivy', what do you mean by that? How can such a plant be toxic? Shall we wash our hands after touching the leaves, should we avoid keeping them in the bedroom? thank you.
Hiya! I'm simply going from my own experience having lived in multiple dark places over the years with lots of plants. As I said towards the end of the video (not sure if you watched this bit or not) but even if some plants are "coping" it doesn't mean they'll be thriving in the same way as they would if you were to increase their light. I fully acknowledge that a lot of these plants would do better in brighter light, they're just on this list as I know they're more than capable of surviving in darker spots x
In my experience prayer plants are picky & ivies grow better outside & some peperomnias are picky too as is the nerve plants are not easy either. I've never had cast iron plants . Chinese Evergreens & peace lilies & zz's as well as spiders are easy dracenas are very easy as are most monstetas. I do agree with the majority of plants you listed. I would also add some succulents & cacti & yucca & agates too. Snake plants have many new varieties out in the stores & garden ships to choose from..I'm over 65 & have bern gardening/ houseplants since I learned from my dad at a very young age.i was born with 2 green thumbs. There are always new cultivars being introduced to the public. Thank you.
thanks for the video witch of thise clan the air best, or better. I wand a jungle box in a darker room, that can help with the air inside. im gonna add a growlight and have a water diffuser to spray then 1time a day.
So half of these plants I managed so successfully kill off.. I really wish you'd do a video on low temp plants. I have -10C during winter on my hallway and they all just died the first winter. Sadly, no other location in the house to have the plants..
Hi, based on my experience, my mom got a huge anthurium magnificum on our terrace and two of my dogs loved chewing on the huge leaves until it was only one leaf left from 5 leaves. They're super fine until now as this happened around 3 months ago. So i think anthuriums are pet-friendly meaning they're not toxic?
When you say it's harder to care for, what does that mean? I have some plants said to be "easy" struggling, and some people say are hard thriving. I don't understand :/ lol
This is literally me, as well. If any of those "easies" you have are succulents, lilies, ivy, diffenbachia, or peperomia, don't believe them. I have killed or gotten super wonky versions of them all! While ficus, aglaonema, pothos, and spider plants are *actually* easy and a tip is to use water globes or underwater 3 out of 4 times.
Air cleaning plants is a huge myth. Some plants do have filtering abilities, but you'd need hundreds of them in a room to have significant improvements.
You're right. They did an experiment in outer space on it. The conditions needed for it to filter air... Not livable in the first place lol. So even with hundreds, it's marginal. Improves mood tho 😊
As a beginner buying plants, I found your video was very helpful and informative, especially your list of 20 plants that are good for in the home. Thank you 😘
Hiii, I really love your videos!! If you have the time, I'd love it if you made a video on mixing soil for different kinds of houseplants. Also maybe a video on calathea care?? Greetings from the Balkans and keep up the good work 🥰
Thank you so much! I made a video last week about some amazing soil alternatives you can use (or mix in with your regular potting mix), but I'll definitely make one purely on soil mixes soon. I've already got a calathea care vid - it was one of my first ones so you might have to scroll down to the bottom x
Thanks for all these suggestions!! I've not been having much luck with my spider plants. They do well up to a point, make lil babies and then seem to just fall apart (do plants get postpartum depression?!) Any tips would be gratefully received
The thing with spider plants is that often if they've got loads of plantlet babies and then suddenly you chop them all to propagate, it's easy to assume that the mother plant will still require the same care (ie. water and fertilising needs) when actually she won't as she doesn't have the babies to support anymore (if that makes sense). Whenever I go a big chop of my big ones, I'll try to just leave them alone for a while afterwards to let them re-adjust, and just monitor them carefully when it comes to things like watering 💚
I have a fiddle leaf fig in a very low light area (on the end of the bath below and to the side of an east facing window) and it’s fine and has put out new leaves over the year it’s been there.
There's a lot of misinformation in this video, I count 3 plants so far that she claims are toxic yet they're on a plants for pets website and she also said spider plants are easy, they are not. 2 drops of water too much and you get brown tips. 2 drops too little and you get brown tips.
good video! my mom gave me two small peace lilies that I kept in the window (they got white spots from what I think the sun being too bright) and they were doing ok but when I planted them in one large pot and keep them on the floor in my bedroom they are now super happy och 10 times the size. really recommend this plant :)
I killed a prayer plant within a week.. I’m kind of a beginner with humidity tho. I have pothos for years and grow well with extreamly little natural light and grow mainly on my normal house light bulb. Same with my dwarf umbrellas, neon pothos and ZZs. I would like to find more plants that don’t need to be misted and will tolerate my light bulb since I don’t expect to move anytime soon. The plants that I tried once and didn’t make the cut were: prayer plant, English ivy, lipstick plant (gave it away after a while). Plants I think might work (researched but not deep research): lucky bambo, spider plant, snake plant.
Love your enthusiasm and vibe but as a plant parent myself I have to respectfully disagree with you on about a third of the varieties you mentioned. Of course there are other factors beside just light that could contribute to me having a different experience than you with certain plants but I’m also weighing in more than just one trial and error experiment with more than one plant of the same variety and also resourcing what I’ve heard other peoples experiences have been. So let me rephrase and say it’s not about disagreeing or being right or wrong I’ve just had a very different experience with some of those plants and I’ve heard other people have also. In particular diffenbachias and monsteras in my experience may be able to tolerate low light for awhile, even up to a year or more but if not getting an adequate amount of indirect light or even a couple hours of early morning or late afternoon direct late will start to look very shabby, lose leaves, and monsteras will start reverting back to smaller and less fenestrated leaves and begin stretching with huge spaces in between leaf nodes. Same for any kind of pothos in my experience. For me if my pothos aren’t next to or within a few feet of a large window they quickly start to look naked, leggy and sad. Calatheas, anthuriums and some types of peperomias can be quite hard to keep happy as well, I think humidity might have as much or even more to do with their success as light. I 100 percent agree with you on snake, zz, and some corn plants being a piece of cake and being happy growing almost anywhere. But in my experience while these plants and others may look good and be happy in low light they thrive even more in more light especially if you want a fuller lusher look. One good indication I’ve noticed is if a plant is getting enough light you will start to see it stretch and bend towards the light source not just turn towards it. I’m sure you already know all of this I just wanted to share my experiences. Perhaps there’s some tricks and techniques i still need to learn to grow some of the varieties I found to be more difficult.
plush is my headache. It's as if more than one variety doesn't want to live in my house, although more difficult plants feel quite well, and this asshole just shrinks regardless of whether I take a small outgrowth or a large bush тт _ тт
I was thinking of starting an online plant store but I've heard you talk about the fact that you had one but no longer do can you give me any advice or maybe the reason why you don't do it any longer? It's too personal that's okay I just thought I'd ask. I'm in Austin Texas by the way. 😉
No no, ask away! I chatted about it a bit in my most recent plant chores video, but there were multiple reasons. I'm going to make a video soon about my experience starting up a plant shop and the realities of it x
I have a pot with four Monstera deliciosa plants living in the back of east facing room and they are still growing. I remember to water them sometimes. It just doesn't get any easier. I would say Monstera is a good choice. And philodendron Micans. Mine is doing good in permanent shade on a shelf and it grows.
I have a snake plant variety that is 11 years old now. Just did my final report with it, if it starts to outgrow this home then I will have to just harvest her pups
Hello. Fellow plant lover from Iceland here, love your videos! Genuinely surprised on how few views the videos have, I am sure the views will grow with time. Keep up the good work!
Wonderful video, especially including pet friendly info. My question is what temperature range do they tolerate? The lower level of my house is darker due to Loggia/patio cover. We keep the temperature at 63. I’d like to have more plants downstairs. Our puppy has grown and has discovered the plants. Lol
Thank you for the great tips! My living room faces west but the windows are shaded by a balcony so it's not as bright as I would like. I'm going to get a few of these and hope they work out 😃 One thing that's good to know about Peace lilies (and any lilies), is that the pollen is extremely toxic to cats! So unlike most non pet friendly plants, putting them out of reach is unfortunately not enough, unless you snip of the flowers
Peace lilies are actually aroids and not in the lily family, and their pollen isn't actually toxic to cats (but like all aroids they can still cause stomach upset for leaf chewing kitties so watch out!)
@@worm9706 Oh! I heard it from a horticulturist, but now that I think about it she didn't specifically say that peace lilies were true lilies, just that the pollen could be bad for pets. 😅 I jumped to conclusions, that's my bad.
What's the secret, why you are always with a smile and elated? Have you been so from a childhood, or it's in your family environment? Or you keep yourself up for shooting? Or you learnt it from somewhere while you were growing? Or you take antidepressants or a glass of wine before shooting?... Why you are so shiny?
Hahaha aww this made me chuckle! To be honest I'm usually just excited to film and get to do what I love chatting about plants and making vids on them 💚 Some days are a slight mission, but usually once I get going I absolutely love it 😁
not easy at all in the dark room..nothing is easy in the dark room. If anyone live in the dark room, the best idea is just give up the plants. Although I am not a beginner and I have most of the plants in the video. But when I move to a north faced appartment. There is 0 minute direct sun from September to March. Half of the Plants died after the long Norweigian winter. There is about two hours direct light in June. But it cannot save the plants life. They survived after they were moved outdoor, where they can get 18 hours weak or mild Norwegian Sommer light.half of them turn back and half of them are still very sick now. 😅
Beautiful Plants!!!!! Plants can thrive under a variety of conditions however. I have Snake Plant in a South window (in the shade of my Dracaena) that are thriving, growing their tails off! My Fav The Monstera absolutely will grow it's tail off although it does have to be aclimated to bright light. My Monstera is in a West facing window. Euphorbia is outside with some of my cactus for the summer in the Sun. My Euphorbia thinks it is a cactus! Finally my other simple favorite is Pothos who absolutely can thrive (better varigation) in bright light. Love your videos!
I loved my dieffenbachia plant when I first got it. I quickly realized that it was always thirsty. I usually do once a week watering of all my plants, but this guy was needing about every other day watering. I had to rehome him but would love to get another one. Do you have any tips for extra thirsty plants?
Such good info, tysm. I'm confined to my room atm and needing something. QUESTION: Tempeture wise, will cooler conditions play a factor in the darker room plants? My room stays in the mid to high 60s. 🥶 a video on that would also be amazing
Exactly there is no such thing as a zero light plant........ I tested my zz, fine for 1 month, was fine then leaves begun to get watery and brown and stems rottened. And i only watered it, once a month due to lock of light......... they all need light... now my zz is doing fine, she is in light. not direct I use artifical for her. Till she heals.
This video is wrong on so many levels… so much horrible advice. Almost half of these plants will die super quick if you treat them like she suggests.. I used to listen to these videos and the result was a lot of money out of the window
I saw some realy nice wild variegated Ivy down by my local B&Q , light green with the off white edges . I tried propagating through the recent horror heat wave in the uk though & I think that was the wrong idea.. But I’m going to try again through October with my indoor grow house
Just new to plants. And so happy i found you. You gave a great video. And with pets i love how you said which ones are poisoning to them. Plus your additude i love. I will follow you now. And look forwars to watching more videos of you.
Hey Claire, only just saw this, you did whizz through your list lol but it was great, some fabulous ideas there for me. I'm adding one extra point to growing sansevieria, I have a moonshine, star cannary, gracilis, fancisii and gold flame in direct sunlight, they were shaded with a net curtain only during the crazy summer heat wave of 2022. This year I'm adding Zeylanica, cylindrica and Laurentii to the spot. The reason for my addition is as a validation to your point of thriving. I have several other sansevierias dotted around in various spots in my home, they are growing and also multiplying, but not what I would call thriving.
Im such a bad plant parent that I’ve killed pathos >( I want to start having plants that are easy and safe for cats. Can you recommend me just one to start? Thanks
