Spec me a House Plant!

Mr Doovde said:
Perhaps you could consider a Spider Plant. It releases oxygen at night, so it should aid your quality of sleep.
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Like most plants do, but you'd probably need a few to compensate for a human or two snoring away.

For those that keep plants for this reason - do you find it works?
 
A few years ago one of my bosses used to keep a whole bunch of cacti by his CRT monitors because apparently they had magical powers against the radiation emitted from the screens.

I had no idea if it worked or not.... he was Belgian and was kinda crazy so I just left him to it.
 
I'd go with peace lilly (see the film Hot Fuzz) or a spider plant. Both hardy. Get some cactus for secondary entertainment value, i.e. accidentally stabbing yourself on.
 
Bonzi.

Just bear in mind that at night plants do the opposite - they take in oxygen and produce C02 during the night. Just a consideration if you don't want to risk poor sleep - which has happened to friends of mine.
 
Ben M said:
cactus. the epitome of low maintenance.
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nodont had mine for 4 years, i tried everything to kill it, i under watered it, over watered it. It just kept growing till it took up a whole window shelf.
then i went on holiday left it in my mothers care and shed killed it. what ahd taken me 4 years to try and kill took my mum 2 weeks, i still dont know her secret.

get a cactus their ****ing hard to kill, unless your my mum.
 
Cacti - low maintenance but need a period of dry cold in the winter to flower

Spider plant - extremely low maintenance and will have babies for you too

Amaryllis (correctly Hippeastrum) - interesting to grow from a bulb and really impressive flowers but once they flower they need to be treated correctly to reflower

Orchid (Cymbidium and Phalaenopsis) - surprisingly easy to keep so long as you follow some very simple rules and extremely impressive flowers.

Rubber plant (Ficus elastica)- no, not what you think!!

Swiss cheese plant (Monstera deliciosa) - amazing leaves and can grow enormous
 
I have a Mother-in-laws Tongue. Nice plant. Really hardy thing, I've went weeks without watering it and it's still here. It's almost been a year I've had it. I don't think it flowers but it's nice looking all the same. :)
 
platinum87 said:
those small trees from karate kid ?

seems cool
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You mean bonsais? They're a lot of hard work. They need tending to every day.

I'd recommend a spider plant. I'm rubbish with pets and plants but have had two spider plants for two years and they're both looking very healthy.
 
Yup Bonsai trees are awesome, my old one looked like this and was a good starter tree.



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Spider Plant or Draceona Tree - both are easy to keep alive.

I have an aloe vera but it keeps flopping so it ends up taking loads of space.
 
chumpit said:
nodont had mine for 4 years, i tried everything to kill it, i under watered it, over watered it. It just kept growing till it took up a whole window shelf.
then i went on holiday left it in my mothers care and shed killed it. what ahd taken me 4 years to try and kill took my mum 2 weeks, i still dont know her secret.

get a cactus their ****ing hard to kill, unless your my mum.
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We had cactus' for years too; my mam is a classic overwater-er; and the thrived and then they got too big, so just had to go! I hate spikey cactus!
 
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