12 trendy house plants to liven up your interior design
Looking for an original and aesthetically pleasing way to decorate your home? Trendy house plants are an excellent choice for adding a touch of freshness and style to your living space. Discover our selection of 12 lush plants that will brighten up your interior.
The Giant dioom
Dioon spinulosum is a Cycadale native to Mexico, perfect for adding a touch of greenery to your home. Although it resembles a palm tree or fern, it is distinguished by its graphic, light-green, serrated foliage edged with thorns. It needs to be handled with care, but once in place, it will fit perfectly into your living space.
Please consider placing it in a spot with plenty of light and a few rays of sunlight, such as behind a window. As it grows, you’ll notice that its leaves gradually straighten out. Note that it cannot be pruned. Once you’ve reached the desired height, don’t increase the size of the pot when repotting.
The Buddha Belly Plant, an easy-to-care-for lush plant
This Bottle tree, Jatropha podagrica stands out for its small, swollen trunk serving as a water and nutrient reserve. It is often, wrongly, considered as one of the baobab varieties. Its broad, water-lily-like leaves and magnificent scarlet-red flowers, reminiscent in shape of coral, make it a much-appreciated plant for decorating interiors.
For its good development, favor a bright location. This highly aesthetic ornamental plant is perfectly at home in full sun. Why not place it on a shelf in your living room very close to a light source. Very easy to care for, it requires very little watering.
The Hardy tapioca
If you’re looking for a lush plant with a tropical feel, the Hardy tapioca is for you. With its leaves cut into umbrellas that form an umbrella above the stems, Manihot grahamii is THE decorative indoor plant par excellence! By placing it just behind a window, you can enjoy the shade of its graphic foliage on your walls.
Although very discreet, the Hardy tapioca does flower. It produces small, yellow-green flowers attractively arranged in clusters. Its rapid growth and ease of care make it a much-appreciated decorative houseplant. Just remember to let it breathe fresh air in summer, then bring it inside when the cold arrives. This exotic plant particularly appreciates sunshine.
The Rose cactus
The Rose cactus (Pereskia bleo) is an unusual cactus in that it has foliage. Its oval, light-green leaves and large, orange-red, rose-like flowers give it a unique look. Like a cactus, its stems are studded with spines. This shrub also boasts spinning top-like fruits which, when ripe, turn yellow.
The Rose cactus is the houseplant for you, if you’re looking for a fast-growing type of cactus. It will require regular watering (when the substrate is completely dry) and good light to develop properly. Consider placing it near a window or in a veranda.
The Canary Islands dragon tree
With its umbrella-like habit and woody trunk, the Canary Islands Dragon Tree is one of the graphic plants to include in any interior. Its name refers to the red sap called “dragon’s blood” that flows out when cut. Dracaena draco gets its graphic look from its pretty blue-green leaves and dense network of intertwined branches.
It produces greenish-white flowers that stand in large panicles; unfortunately, when grown indoors, it blooms very little. In addition to its depolluting virtues, the Canary Islands dragon tree requires little maintenance, making it an excellent houseplant. It’s best placed in a bright spot all year round, avoiding cold rooms, and taken outside when the weather’s fine.
Boat lily, a graphic and decorative houseplant
Boat lily is the perfect plant if you want to add color to your home. With its green foliage streaked with purple or pale green on top and entirely purple on the reverse, it makes a lovely floral decoration. In a living room or bathroom, Tradescantia spathecea will do particularly well, especially if the room is bright. The more light it has, the more flamboyant its colors will be.
Thanks to its colorful, rosette-shaped foliage, this decorative plant rarely flowers indoors. Outdoors or in its natural habitat, you can see flowers composed of three white petals buried between its leaves.
The Fishtail palm
Cultivated mainly for the beauty of its leaves, the Fishtail Palm brings the perfect touch of exoticism to an office, living room or conservatory. Its shiny green leaves, partially toothed and arranged in pairs, resemble fish tails, hence its name. Its upright, splayed habit gives it an airy silhouette perfect for an interior.
This palm is equally at home in dark or light environments. However, a bright exposure (without direct sun) will help it produce more beautiful foliage. Be careful not to place it too close to a heat source (radiator, fireplace, etc.) to prevent the leaves from drying out. Maintenance is simple: just water regularly when the substrate is dry. Last but not least, Caryota mitis is one of the few palms without thorns.
Heliconia, one of the most spectacular tropical flower
Also known as false bird of paradise or Lobster claws, Heliconias are unusual plants that number around a hundred species. Their leaves are similar to those of the banana tree, but their particularity comes above all from their inflorescence. Heliconia flowers are arranged in spikes and composed of colorful red and yellow bracts. Depending on the species, they can be found in a spiral (Heliconia Schiedeana) or in two parallel rows (Heliconia acumiata, Heliconia aurantiaca, Heliconia strica) reminiscent of lobster claws.
Adaptable to any interior, this plant with its graphic flowers should be placed in full light, such as behind a window or in a veranda. Whatever the species, it will add a unique decorative touch!
a few varieties of heliconia
Heliconia rostrata, also known as Heliconia parrot’s beak, is a variety distinguished by red bracts with yellow claw-like tips that curlinwards.
Heliconia imbricata can be recognized by its red inflorescences and cup-shaped bracts
cup-shaped bracts that give it a unique graphic appearance.
Heliconia aurantiaca, on the other hand, produces orange bracts and yellow flowers.
yellow flowers.
Pothos manjula, a trendy lush plant
Pothos manjula is surely one of the most fashionable lush plants at the moment. And why? Because it’s a tropical plant with beautiful, colorful foliage that’s particularly easy to live with. Pothos, whatever its variety, is ideal for novice gardeners. With its compact, semi-drooping habit, its leaves grow alternately along the stem, giving it a very graphic look. Each leaf has several shades of green, white and cream in patches or mottles.
The Pothos manjula thrives in damp areas such as the bathroom, for example. However, it needs sufficient light to maintain its variegation. In pots, this plant produces neither fruit nor flowers.
Some varieties of Pothos
The Pothos Marble Queen is recognizable thanks to its green foliage spotted with creamy white similar to marbling.
Neon Pothos, on the other hand, has bright green foliage. If its growth is a little slower than the others, it needs the same maintenance.
There are also: the Pothos Golden Queen, Marble Queen, Jade, etc.
The Maranta
Maranta comprises over fifty species. It is also known as the peacock plant or prayer plant. Although it resembles the Calathea, it can be distinguished by the decoration on its leaves and the touches of burgundy color. You’d think each leaf was hand-painted. Its bushy, compact form and colorful leaves make it an excellent decorative houseplant.
<p>Maranta gets its name “prayer plant” from its leaves, which close at night as if in prayer. This rhizomatous perennial requires little maintenance and prefers to be exposed to medium light. It will find a perfect place in an entryway or bedroom.</p>
Some varieties of Maranta
Maranta Lemon Lime: this variety can be recognized by the light-green lines covering its dark-green leaves and the lime-green splashes on the midrib.
Maranta leuconeura ‘Kerchoveana’: this variety has green leaves adorned with squarer brown and dark green spots, symmetrically distributed on either side of the midrib.
Alocasia
Plain green leaves for Alocasia macrorrhiza, silver-veined leaves for Alocasia longiloba or white-veined leaves for Alocasia ‘Polly’. The blade of each leaf is cordate or sagittate, depending on the variety. In other words, heart-shaped or spear-shaped. Alocasia is a highly adaptable tropical houseplant. It’s equally at home in the living room or bathroom.
It’s easy to care for: just keep the soil moist at all times. It also needs plenty of room to flourish.
Some varieties of Alocasia
Alocasia amazonica ‘Polly’: this is the most common variety. It can be recognized by its dark-green arrow-shaped leaves with wavy edges and white veins.
Alocasia zebrina: you can tell this species at a glance by its pale-green stems streaked with dark brown and its large green leaves.
Caladium
Caladium is a true star of plant decoration. Also known as angel’s wing or Jesus’ heart, it is recognized by its decorative foliage in a rich variety of colors: blood-red, pink, cream, speckled, bicolored, and so on. There are around a dozen species, with many varieties to choose from.
If you want to adapt it to your home, you’ll need to choose a spot behind a window with blinds or curtains to protect it from the sun’s rays. All it needs is regular watering.
Some varieties of Caladium
Caladium ‘Sweetheart’: distinguished by its pink leaves edged in green with dark pink veins.
Caladium ‘Fiesta’: white leaves edged in green with scarlet veins.
With this selection of 12 trendy house plants, you now have everything you need to enhance your interior design. Choose these decorative, aesthetic plants to create a warm, harmonious living space.
