Plants That Need Very Little Light

Read on for a list of plants that don t need sun to grow.

Plants that need very little light. Not only can it survive with very little sunlight but it is also drought resistant. The term low light can be very misleading. It ll vary a bit depending on the number and size of windows or glass doors in a room. North facing rooms or rooms with no windows are considered low light rooms.

They are very hardy hard to kill plants. Require very little sunlight and can survive in heavily shaded areas. When you purchase a plant and the label includes it as a low light plant it does not necessarily mean that these are indoor plants that need low light. About low light indoor plants.

As a japanese native it shows the samurai style of tenacity in its dark green sword like leaves. In fact too much intense sunlight can hurt this variety. They love to grow at room temperature. If your room has no windows you should leave lights on 12 hours a day or rotate low light plants into the room for a few weeks at a time before moving them back to a naturally lit room.

Snake plants purify the air you breathe and release oxygen. 40 indoor plants that don t need sunlight 1. Also known as the eternity plant the zz plant zamioculcas zamiifolia is one of the hardiest indoor houseplants around. It can tolerate fatal conditions for most plants as it has adapted the abysmal full shaded spots in forest floors and can live just by less than an hour of direct sunlight a day and with very little water.

Below are general guidelines for exposure for low light plants. It means that these are indoor plants that tolerate low light. It can survive for years in indirect light and even live prosperously if it s been lacking water for a while. Notable properties that make them great for offices.

In fact during the winter months it needs very little water at all. You want the plant to be at least 5 away from the window s. Plants can be close to the window s. I love the spider plant chlorophytum comosum plant for how hardy it is with nearly zero sunlight.

Spider plants native to tropics around the globe and the first houseplant for innumerable people probably owes its popularity to its unique growth habit and for its ease of growth as a low light houseplant the mother plant a clump of curving leaves that resemble long broad grass blades sends out long stems with baby plants at their ends. Usually no direct sun but still some light. Hardy shade plants and flowers bring beautiful blooms even to those parts of your backyard that receive little light. Can go multiple days without water.