Nerve Plant Archives - The Happy Houseplanter https://happyhouseplanter.com Houseplant Tutorials & Tips Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:02:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9 https://i0.wp.com/happyhouseplanter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-happy-plant-icon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Nerve Plant Archives - The Happy Houseplanter https://happyhouseplanter.com 32 32 164018088 Nerve Plant Care https://happyhouseplanter.com/nerve-plant-care/ Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:02:24 +0000 https://happyhouseplanter.com/?p=193 The nerve plant is a great beginner plant. Nerve plant care couldn’t be simpler. Once you have a handle on the basics, you can prune your plant and propagate clippings for yourself or to give away. Nerve Plant Care Basics Nerve plants (fittonia) are native to the rain forests of South America where they grow as ground cover. The nerve plant is a low maintenance houseplant with a natural tendency to spread, which makes it an easy and attractive choice for indoor container gardens. Since it thrives in the rain forest under a canopy of other foliage, it prefers both high humidity and indirect filtered bright light. Keep your nerve plant well watered and sit it on a tray of pea gravel and water. If you under water it you will find that the whole plant wilts and droops. If you over water, the leaves will turn yellow and the roots will rot. Some people grow this plant in a terrarium for maximum humidity. Despite their rainforest origins, nerve plants do well in the typical range of temperatures found in a home. However if exposed to extreme cold they may begin dropping leaves. To prevent this, avoid placing your plant […]

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]]> 193 Best House Plants for Low Light https://happyhouseplanter.com/best-house-plants-for-low-light/ Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:28:00 +0000 http://happyhouseplanter.com/?p=44 What are the best house plants for low light? I have one bay window in my house that is plant heaven. Plants love this window. They thrive on the sill. This window is eastern facing and gets a lot of indirect light all day long. However, I realized that a lot of the other surfaces in my house where I can place plants have low light. I found a few indoor plants that are doing well in these corners of my home, but I wanted to know what else to look for as I add to my indoor jungle. Bright Light, Indirect Light, and Low Light for Indoor Plants First a word on light. Does my house have low light? Bright light? What exactly is indirect bright sunlight? You can find me in a plant nursery, staring at a plant tag trying to figure out if my house has the right light for it. Most information on sunlight in a home is broken down by which direction your windows face. A southern facing window is supposed have the most bright direct light during the day. However the southern facing windows in my house face my neighbor’s 2 story house, which […]

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