The Easiest Plants to Grow!

Let's be realistic.  Some of us just don't understand plants.  We love how they make our home look more "homey", but we have killed more plants than we would ever admit.  If you are one of those people here is a short list of plants that are easy to grow and the directions on how to make them flourish.

First is the Pothos.

I love this plant for beginners.   It comes in different sizes with a leaf that is 3 inches wide to 3 feet wide.  The can be solid green, golden marble green and white marble green.

I love this plant because it is so easy to start and grow.  A small cutting from a health plant can be put in the water and grow into an enormous house plant.  This is one of the few plants I know that can live its whole life in water as long as it gets fertilizer. 

To begin, be sure that to have two or more nodes (places that leaves have been removed) to put in the water.  Only one or two leaves need to be left on the cutting.  As the new roots begin to develop be sure to add a liquid fertilizer in the water.  You can transfer the new plant as soon as it has a good set of roots or leave in water for a different look.  Leaving the pothos in water will entail watching for root rot which can be avoided be draining half the water and adding new water once a month.  Trim any soft roots away.  To develop a full lush plant, trim the end of the stem as it grows.  This will create branching and make the plant to develop new shoots from just above the root ball.

I have never had a pothos come down with a disease or be susceptible to bug infestation.

The Second is the Spider Plant

Correctly named Chlorophystum comosum, the spider plant has made my list of easy plants because of the fact that it does not need to be repotted.  In fact,  the wonderful babies on the end of long stems can only form if the plant is potbound.  To start a new plant you can place another pot next to the "mother" plant and just set the baby on top of the dirt of the new pot.  you can also wait for the baby to develop its own roots and plant directly into the pot without the stem.

The spider plant comes in a varigated leaf like the one listed and in solid green.  A number of years ago the solid green was the easier plant to find but because the varigated is so popular it has outshown the green making the most available.

Part of the care of this plant is to remove dead leaves as they will harbor insects that are hard to get rid of it established.  Watch for Scale, which is its deadly enemy.  Scale is a bug that has a hard shell and attaches itself to the leaf and eats.

Both of these plants will do well in natural light, but will also do well as a desk plant under florecent lighting.

Please email me or contact me if you have any questions. 
Thanks,
k.k.jones