Darkness Becomes Them
These houseplants thrive in low light — with a little TLC
Let’s be perfectly clear—there’s no such thing as a “houseplant.”
Plants are a part of the natural world, they grow outside, most of them in soil, in varying amounts of sunlight with at least some water. The key to successfully cultivating plants indoors is to replicate those conditions that allow them to flourish in their natural habitat.
Horticultural pro Katie Hinson works at Urban Earth, a tiny retail nursery in Fremont that’s gone big on indoor plants. It all comes down to lighting. And of course, it’s winter when daylight hours, let alone sun, are precious and few.
“Many popular houseplants are from the tropics where they live in the understory of large trees,” Hinson advises. “These plants are naturally tolerant of low light conditions.”
From Aspidistra to ZZ, the following plants all flourish in low light.
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