By adding some plants, every room feels lively, colorful and inviting, but smaller rooms such as apartments can be a challenge to decorate green. They have to take into account factors such as light, air humidity and space – not to mention design considerations in order to be able to look great.
The good news is that you can do garden in your apartment, regardless of whether you live in a sunlit studio or a railway hike. Here are six expert tips for growing houseplants, flowers, vegetables and much more in your apartment.
Choose the right plants
Succulents and other slowly growing plants are easier to maintain in a smaller room.
When the room is tight, it is important to think home through the houseplants. You want not only easy needs, but also the mature height and width of a system to ensure that it fits your room well.
“Some of the faster growing house plants like Monstera AdansoniiAre so sweet in this small 6-inch pot when you buy them in the shop. However, if you offer a good environment, it could be three times in six months, “says Justin Hancock, gardening with front doctors Costa Farms.”
If you are really tight in space, Hancock recommends compact houseplants such as Fittonia, also known as a nerve plant due to her contrasting white, pink or red veiling on green leaves. Other compact houseplants for small apartments are the polka-dot plant, African violet and low-growing succulents such as Echeveria.
Use the vertical space
If your desk, your counterattack, your windowsill or your shelter space are at least, you can still add a lot of green to your apartment by using the vertical space to the fullest. Choose plants with a small footprint, but a closer, upright growth habit such as snake plant, also called Sansevieria.
“Sansevieria is great because it is almost infinitely adaptable and almost without face,” says Hancock. “There are dwarf varieties, medium varieties, high varieties and colorful varieties. You can grow them directly against a window or on the opposite side of the room. “
Use the vertical space and watch your inner garden grow.
The use of vertical space can also be positioned hanging plants from ceiling hooks or on a high bookshelf or shelf so that their vines can grow down. Subsequent varieties such as Pothos, Philodendron and Tradescantia are slightly growing, low-maintenance plants that can adapt to a variety of light conditions and do not bring them directly into the sunlight.
Hancock also recommends Hoyas, another puzzle plant, which is known as relatively drought -tolerant and for blooming with fragrant pink flowers under the right conditions.
“Hoyas are currently remarkably trendy and give them this simple maintenance,” he says. “If you bring you to a really shining point, you bloom. Flowering houseplants are relatively difficult to find, because most of them need more light that you can give you inside.”
Group plants together
If you think about which houseplants should be bought for your apartment, you should think about where you put them – and how to take care of you. The mergter of specimens in a room or area of your room can offer several advantages.
“The grouping of plants can be very helpful in small space, since it looks more natural for the eye and keeps your care in one place instead of going anywhere when you have to be water,” says Hancock.
Hoya flowers are typically white and pink.
Clustering plants can also help to create a somewhat moist microclimate, since plants are constantly releasing moisture from small pores in their leaves in a process that is referred to as transpiration. This can be an advantage in winter if the humidity in the interiors tends to be low in many parts of the country and the plants prevent brown tips or crispy edges on their leaves. Leave enough space between the plants to enable sufficient air flow, which can help prevent the spread of plant diseases.
Use mirrors to increase the light
One of the tips from Hancock for apartment gardening is a classic interior design hack for small rooms, which also benefits plants in areas with lower light.
“Place a mirror behind the plant on a wall can help to have a little more light,” he says. “There is the additional depth of your apartment that feels a little bigger.”
If you are unable to paint the walls of your apartment, know something other than “landlord special”, you comfort the fact that white walls can also help reflect the light in your growth area.
Try it with hydroponic garden
Intelligent gardens often include growth of lights and an irrigation mechanism for simple interiors.
Many of the houseplants available in the United States are tropical tropics that are used to growing in the shade near the forest floor, which means that they can adapt to interior light conditions. But what if you long for your own little kitchen garden in your small apartment? Plants such as herbs, lettuce and tomatoes require the full sun to difficult to replicate without interiors.
Here indoor garden kits come into play. Also called Hydroponic Gardens or intelligent gardens. These products are equipped with everything you need to breed green, vegetables and even fruits with a tiny footprint. Devices such as Aerogards, Click & Grow, Ingarden and Smart Growhouse offer the seeds, growing media, nutrients and light light that require their plants. All you have to do is to set up, add water and fertilizer according to the instructions and to enjoy your table top harvest in just a few weeks.
Make it the most outdoors
Hanging plants offer you more garden options.
If you are lucky enough to have a little space outdoors, you can almost certainly find a way there to garden. Stoops, balconies, terraces, roofs and courtyards can accommodate small containers or in some cases even increased beds or larger planters (inquire with your landlord before setting up something that you cannot easily move). Even an apartment without space outdoors can often absorb a window box with flowers or herbs.
Gardening in containers is a great option for tenants and people who live in small rooms such as apartments, since pots are easy to move and do not cause permanent changes to their space. In addition, they can grow almost everything, from tomatoes to kale to beautiful flowers in pots and planters.
Go out for light pots and flower blends to make them easier if you can move in time and check the light exposure before deciding what to plant. You get the most light to the south and to the west. Don't forget to think about how you pour your plants, especially if you have no easy access to a hose.