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Jude's avatar

I am looking for an indoor (live) floor plant. What do you suggest?

Asked by Jude (32204points) March 11th, 2009

A plant that grows no higher than 3 1/2 feet.

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gailcalled's avatar

Amount of sunlight, exposure, artificial lighting, benign neglect or TLC, flowering or non-flowering, and your location. Plants are odd; sometimes they grow more than you want. So you prune. (Do you have animals?).

Jude's avatar

Partial sunlight, natural lighting, easy to care for, flowering or non-flowering (no preference), location – zone 6b (an hour away from Detroit, Mich.), one cat (that has been around floor plants before and didn’t bother with them).

SeventhSense's avatar

@jmah
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kruger_d's avatar

Rubber tree plant, croton, philodedron trained on a trellis.

Adina1968's avatar

How about a Palm?

syz's avatar

I love my ZZ plant – it tolerates low light, abuse and neglect and thrives. They seem to get to about 2.5 to 3 feet tall.

If you have room for a fuller plant, the peace lily is an easy keeper.

syz's avatar

PS I’m afraid the ZZ plant is toxic, if you cat should decide to become a plant eater. Mine is out of reach of the cats.

chyna's avatar

I have a peace lily that I have tried to kill on numerous occasions and it just won’t die.

gailcalled's avatar

@jmah: Drop by your local nursery or Horticultural center. They will have advice and houseplants at hand.

gooch's avatar

Focus tree

gailcalled's avatar

@Gooch; (Great idea but it’s a “ficus.” :- o ) http://houseplants.suite101.com/article.cfm/all_about_ficus

gooch's avatar

Thanks gail it’s the auto spell check on this damn iphone

gailcalled's avatar

Gooch; I laughed and did notice that o and i are next to each other. There is also the possibility of fucus, (u is next to i) as in, what, a Ford Fucus?

kruger_d's avatar

Aren’t ficuses (fici?) the ones that drop their leaves a day after you move them.

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