Apartment Garden: Top 5 Low Light Plants

Gardening

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By Anwesha Barari

Monday, June 18, 2012, 17:49

If you are a beginner when it comes to gardening then you will question the wisdom of choosing low light plants for an apartment garden. The reason for this choice is that living in apartments restricts your options of sunbathing your plants. The only space available to you is your balcony (if you have one) but it is not remotely enough. In independent houses you have the luxury of a porch and a back yard which is why you do not have the compulsion of choosing the best indoor plants for your garden.

Here are 5 of the best low light plants that will thrive well in your garden with little, no or artificial lights.

Top 5 Low Light Plants For Apartment Garden:

1. Chinese Evergreen: This beautiful bushy tropical plants will be an ideal choice for you if have a huge blank corner that needs filling up. It is a great shade plant that has elongated oval leaves and short stems. The shape of the plant is like a bursting flowerpot. The leaves are dark green with very light green pattens on them; the pattens and proportion of green differs with the different varieties of this plant.

2. Snake Plant: Ironically also called the Mother-in-law's Tongue Plant looks sort of spooky but it is the one of the best low light houseplants to have at home. They have long spiky leaves that stand stiffly straight and have sharp edges. They colour is a dirty shade of dark green that with patterns in yellow and white that look kind of creepy. Never water these plants until the soil dries out completely because they are basically used to desert terrains.

3. Lucky Bamboo Plant: If you can find a better and more versatile plant for your apartment garden then it will have to be a new species because there can be none better that this one. The bamboo plant grows in the dark marshes of China where sunshine never reaches so it can survive even in darkness without any lights. Easily the best low light plants that can grow both in water and soil.

4. Peace Lily: It is not just green leaves you can grow in low light but a pristine white flower too! The flower has but one petal and looks like a curled in leaf but imagine the variety it will add to your indoor garden. You need to water this low light plant regularly, at least one or twice a day because likes damp earth.

5. Spider Plant: This plant is actually better off as a indoor hanging plant so it won't take up precious floor space in your apartment. You can decorate your doorways and arches with this spindly looking plant with light green narrow leaves. It thrives well even under the artificial lights of tube lights and bulbs.

Use these special gardening tips to have an bountiful garden indoors filled with these low light plants.