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🪴🙌🫶 Let’s Get You Into Plants! Beginner-Friendly House Plants 🪴🙌🫶
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Here are some low-maintenance, easy care plants that are also beautiful. Water when mostly dry, place in a sunny window or under a grow light, and they’ll do great! I have all of these in my home and classroom.
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Classic House Plants
 
Easy, Colorful House Plants
 
Level Up Your Houseplant Game

Classic House Plants

Here are the classic plants for beginners! Easy-care, hard to kill species that look beautiful!
 
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A variegated version of the easiest plant you can ever own!
Pothos Marble Queen
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If you light bright green and easy-going, this is the plant for you!
Pothos Neon
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Another easy, versatile plant that you can easily share with friends and family! It produces little baby spider plants that you can cut off and pop into water. Once they grow roots (in just a few days), you can pot them up!
Spider Plant
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The classic snake plant needs little water and will tolerate low light. However, give it more light, and it will grow faster for you!
Sansevieria Laurentii
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My all-time favorite plant! Dark green, velvety leaves that will trail or climb. They have a shimmer, too!
Philodendron Micans
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The easiest, most forgiving, versatile plant you can own. I have one that is 20+ years old!
Pothos Jade
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Easy, Colorful House Plants

Want more colorful beginner plants? Don’t sleep on these! They are just as easy to care for as the classics!
 
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Syngonium are some of the most colorful and low-maintenance house plants!
Syngonium Pink Lava
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These are so interesting because of their contrast! Still easy to take care of.
Syngonium Batik
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How fun is the pattern on this syngonium? Just water when the soil is half to mostly dry!
Syngonium Milk Confetti
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You can’t go wrong with a pink and green combo! I love aglaonemas because they are flexible with watering and light.
Aglaonema Wishes
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Level Up Your Houseplant Game

Want to level up your houseplant game from the classics? Here are some plants that require a little extra attention and care, but are totally worth it!
 
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These have beautiful dark green leaves with contrasting veining. They grow corms, like little seeds, that you can replant for friends and family!
Alocasia Polly
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So hoyas are not really much more difficult than the classics, but they are worth it! They love light, and you will find their tendrils always reaching out for it. You can trellis them or let them trail, but the magic is in their flowers! When they b...
Hoya Mathilde
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While monsteras are technically classics, they can grow really big, so they’ll need additional support when they do. Thai cons used to be expensive collectibles, and now they’re affordable for the masses.
Monstera Thai Constellation
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