Plants offer a lively way to spruce up your apartment and provide fresh air to your space. Whether your home is well-lit or on the darker side, we collected the perfect plant options for you. Adding greenery to the tables and walls in your apartment creates a more welcoming feeling and brings life to a room. As interior designer Bailey Katherine says in our mini-interview series: “When you think you’ve added enough plants, add a few more.” If you don’t have a green thumb, don’t fret. Below, we listed the most resilient and tolerant apartment plants for you to enjoy.
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Best Apartment Plants
Succulents
Where to buy: Eastern Leaf, Trader Joe’s
These extremely trendy plants earn the top spot on this list for good reasons. Succulents are identifiable by their thick leaves used for retaining water in arid climates or desert soil conditions (which means they’re hard to kill, too). They come in all shapes and colors, but most possess the same simple living requirements, which make them easy to grow. This diverse plant family demands little watering, about once a month, and decent sunlight to thrive. Busy people will love the low maintenance addition of verdure to their space.
Difficulty: 3/10
Light level: Decent sun/artificial light
Size: Small
How to use it in your space: Table centerpieces, terrariums, fun potting plants
Devil’s Ivy | Epipremnum aureum
Where to buy: Amazon, Home Depot
Perfect for a black-thumbed gardener, Devil’s Ivy is named for its resiliency and the near impossibility of killing it. Also referred to as Pothos or a money plant, this fast-growing vine tolerates temperate indoor settings and remains mostly disease-free. Although a hearty plant, it does best in peat-forward soil that drains adequately. This amazing plant can grow in bright artificial light, so even if your apartment doesn’t receive much sunlight, this plant can flourish.
Difficulty: 2/10
Light level: Indirect, bright sun/artificial light
Size: Medium
How to use it in your space: Hanging plants, window sill decoration, shelf plants
Snake Plant | Sansevieria trifasciata
Where to buy: Plants Express, Lowe’s
If you believe that every plant you touch dies, the Snake Plant will persevere for you. Also known as mother-in-law’s tongue, this plant is notoriously easy to care for. Classified as a “low light plant,” they tolerate a variety of light conditions, but do best with indirect light, so put them in the corner of your apartment that doesn’t get direct contact from the sun.
WARNING: This plant is toxic to cats and dogs, so if you own pets, place it in a spot they can’t reach.
Difficulty: 3/10
Light level: Tolerant of a variety of light conditions
Size: Medium
How to use it in your space: Centerpiece, bring symmetry to your room with two placed on either side of your fireplace or TV
Fiddle-Leaf Fig | Ficus lyrata
Where to buy: Amazon, Fast-Growing Trees
The Fiddle-Leaf Fig is one of the most unique looking plants on this list because of its waxy, violin-shaped leaves. Because this plant grows in rainforest conditions, make sure no cold air hits it because the chill may cause it to drop its leaves. This plant ADORES sunlight, so keep your Fiddle-Leaf Fig by a window that gets plenty of rays. Also, it will gradually lean toward the light, so you’ll need to turn it every few months. Aside from the temperature and light requirements, Fiddle-Leaf Figs are low maintenance, only requiring water when the soil becomes dry.
Difficulty: 6/10
Light level: Lots of direct light
Size: Large
How to use it in your space: Corner piece
Spider Plant | Chlorophytum comosum
Where to buy: Home Depot, Fast-Growing Trees
A Victorian-era favorite, the Spider Plant is one of the easiest plants to take care of. These plants are so impressive at purifying air that NASA even recognized them for that quality. Although extremely adaptable, Spider Plants thrive in bright indirect light and when accompanied by well-drained soil. Unique to this list, these plants actually prefer a cooler temperature and do best anywhere between 55 to 65 degrees Fahrenheit, but are resilient enough to survive in a variety of conditions. When daylight starts increasing in the spring, Spider Plants may start blooming into flowers, which will eventually turn into ‘spiderettes’ that will make propagating a new plant super easy.
Difficulty: 1/10
Light level: Bright, indirect light
Size: Small/medium
How to use it in your space: Hanging plant, side table centerpiece
Where to Shop for Planters
You can buy pots for your new plants at many of the same stores that you buy your greenery, but our favorite place to shop for unique and creative planters that amp up your decor style is Etsy.
Find a Home for Your New Plants
If you need an apartment to add greenery to, reach out to AptAmigo. We are apartment experts who care and will make apartment hunting completely stress-free!
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* The original version of this article was first published on January 16, 2021.
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