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Tips: Popular Plants that do well in offices and homes
These plants are easy to care for and do well in a home, office, or event.
They do not require a lot of attention and live well in the type of lighting provided inside a building.
- Trees, palms, and tropical plants
- Dracaena is the most popular with number o
 f varieties:
- Most hardy of all: Dracaena Janet Craig, one of those things that is very hardy, solid green.
- Dracaena Warneckii: white variegations in leaves
- Dracaena Massangeana: yellow stripes/stripes in leaves
- Dracaena Marginata: smaller leaved variety, unusual plant that people train to give character.
- Ivy
- Pothos (Devil's Ivy): ivy you cannot kill!
Very common, grows in very low light, comes in yellow & green and white & green, and jade (or solid green).
- Bushy Plants
- Spathiphyllum (Peace lily): beautiful white spathe as opposed to an ordinary flower.
- Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema): comes in a
 number of varieties , low light, bushy plant, all versions of green and gray and
silver and variegations.
- Aspidistra (Elatior): looks like green leaves growing out of the dirt, lowest light of all plants,
needs very very low light.
- Sansevria (snake plant), or mother-in-laws tongue: requires low light, low water.
- Schefflera or Umbrella Plant: a good, medium light bushy houseplant.
- Strelitzia Nicolai (White Bird of Paradise): a high light plant, has a very contemporary or architectural shape to it.
- Palms:
- Chamaedorea (Bamboo Palm) work well and need good low, light. They grow with a cane effect and look like bamboo.
- Kentia palm: a classic Victorian palm, large from 4'-9'tall with a gracefully arching Victorian look.
- Neathe bella (Parlor Palm): a small, bushy, low light palm.
- Rhapis palm (Lady Palm): a beautiful low light, bushy palm.
- Trees (almost all of these belong to genus Ficus)
- Ficus benjamina (Weeping Fig): the most common in this category, a high light plant – make sure you put it by a window.
- Ficus alii (Saber Leaf Ficus): has long, willowy leaves; also needs high light.
- Ficus lyrata (Fiddle leaf Ficus): has large, giant leaves that are 8-10 inches in diameter; high light.
- Ficus elastica (common Rubber Tree): can take medium light.
- Tropical Flowers
- Bromeliads:
- Aechmea with large pink flowers
- Guzmania with large flower spike, wide range colors
- Neoregelia with no flower spike, often called Blushing bromeliad
- Anthurium Sp. heart shaped spathe in a variety of colors.
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