Low Light Plants For Basement

Up to 12 inches tall.

Low light plants for basement.

The genus includes nearly 40 species and hundreds of cultivars in various sizes and forms all of them good choices for low light conditions. In fact plants need light to survive. When the soil is dry to the touch. Plants in the dracaena genus include a huge variety used for home office apartments malls and landscape decoration.

If you ve ever tried to grow plants in your basement you ll know that they don t like darkness. Yes there are indoor plants that will grow in rooms that have no windows. While all plants do need light to survive if you know which plants to buy you can keep them thriving even in low light spaces. Available in dark green and variegated forms spider plant chlorophytum comosum makes a great tabletop or basket plant in low light conditions.

If a window provides some supplemental light artificial lights can be left on for 12 to 14 hours per day. They can t grow or develop properly without the proper amount of light. The easiest way to determine what will do well is to look to the plant s natural conditions. 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. During the winter mist the plants frequently to help prevent the leaf tips from turning brown. From pothos to dragon plants and even a succulent or two here are some of the coolest low light plants you can grow. If this is the plants only light source the lights should be on for 16 to 18 hours daily.

In this video i transform a small dark space into an inviting lush reading area. Low light or indirect light. There are 26 plants that grow without sunlight they need indirect exposure some even thrive in artificial light and grow best indoors. These are plants with cane like stems often grown like small indoor trees or shrubs.

View gallery 30 photos 1 of 30. Growing spaces for low light plants need at least 10 to 15 watts of fluorescent light per square foot.