When your pets are your family, keeping them safe is your top priority. Hence , it is important for you to think twice before you bring home any indoor plants. Choosing pet friendly indoor plants, then would be a wise decision if you are both a pet and a plant lover.
Or, if you know of one who is, this is a perfect month to give them the gift of love, and celebrate their green thumb together. What say?
Indoor house plants bring life and purify the air we breathe. In these cold days of winter, when cracking the window open is a rarity, and you are looking for decorating your home interiors ,these pet friendly plants sure are a must in your indoor plant collection.
These plants survive in bright or low light, perfect for windowsills & humid spaces indoors.They also are a perfect beginners collection
Nontoxic plants are a great way to add color and texture to your home decor while keeping your furry friends safe.
Here is a list of 10 different indoor houseplants which are pet friendly, for you to choose from.
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Pet Friendly Indoor Plants
Spider Plant
- easy plant to grow
- grows in semi-shady to partial direct sun
- purifies air
- can re-pot the spiderettes/baby spider plants
Prayer Plant
- low growing, flat leafed plant
- leaves are decorative & beautiful
- come in 3 colors, green, velvety yellow & red veined
- grows in bright indirect sunlight on a windowsill
Polka Dot Plant
- cheeriest foliage plant around
- red, pink, or white leaves marked with splashes of dark green
- grows fairly well on low light, though not for extended periods
- mix up the polka dot colors for a fun look indoors
Moth Orchid Plant
- easy to grow indoors, stay in bloom longer
- perfect behind curtains or window blinds
- love humidity and minimal light
- water every 7 days for a 6 inch pot
- Coffee grounds are an excellent organic fertilizer for orchids
Succulents
- Succulent means juice, or sap (Latin- sucus) .Read all about their care in this wonderful blog on succulents
- drought resistant plants
- need minimal sunlight
- store water in their leaves, stems & roots
- live long when kept in sunlight
Lucky Bamboo
- can grow both in water and soil
- grows well in bright light, tolerates low light
- easiest house plant to grow
- Three stalks bring three kinds of luck: happiness, long life, and wealth.
Potted Palm
- Depending on the species of palm some need direct or indirect sunlight
- choose a fast-draining, yet moisture-retentive potting mix designed for container growing
- Water several times a week
- Application of epsom salts is shown to grow healthy green fronds
Rubber Plant
- in-house, low maintenance, stately green tree plants
- have large deep green leaves
- A sunny spot shielded by a sheer curtain provides the perfect bright spot for these plans to grow indoors
- Pruning in spring or summer is best followed by repotting them allow the plant to grow
African Violet
- common indoor plant native to Tanzania
- Moderate to bright, indirect, indoor light.
- Keep soil moist to dry, and allow soil around roots to dry out before watering to encourage blooming
- Pinch off spent blossoms and blossom stems to encourage development of new blooms
Fern Plant
- Most ferns do well in part shade or dappled sunlight
- Shade loving ferns appreciate an organic, evenly moist, well drained soil.
- The leaves of ferns are often called fronds. Fronds are usually composed of a leafy blade and petiole (leaf stalk)
- Their love of moist air makes ferns perfect houseplants for bright bathrooms or kitchens
Here is proof that all you need is a green thumb and a desire to grow plants indoors, you can do so beautifully. Watch one of my favorite shows Garden Up, here, where this garden enthusiast teaches all about how to grow indoor plants and beautify your home. With a little love and care, it brings oodles of joy to one.
The Bottom Line
Are you ready to get started with your own indoor plants this winter? The ache to see some greenery is there in all of us, this winter, what better time to start a new hobby than now? Know someone who loves plants ? Gift them an indoor plant during this month of love and watch then glow!
Hope our blogpost on Growing Indoor Plants will motivate you to do just that, this winter. Share in the comments below which one of the plant suggestion you love the best.
If you are already an indoor plant gardener, please feel free to share some helpful tips with the rest of the community here, so we may all benefit from it.
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All your suggestions are lovely and thanks for sharing much needed information that’s really helpful to newbies. All your suggestions are lovely but Polka Dot, Succulents and African violets are just so cute.
Thank you. Glad you found our blogpost helpful!
This is actually my goal this year, more plants around the house! And with a small dog, something we really should make sure is safe!
Plants always bring great joy, so love your idea of surrounding yourself with them at home.Our list of plant suggestions here are safe for your pets.Glad you liked them.Have fun with your indoor gardening this season!
These are great suggestions! I have several of these plants. I have cats and have to be careful about what plants I grow indoors.
You are most welcome. The plant suggestion here are pet friendly ones, give it a try & please let us know which ones you liked the most.
This is great! Thank you for sharing! I’ve slowly been collecting plans this year and I am always looking for the safest options for my animals
You are most welcome. Glad to know that you found our blog post helpful & informative. We so appreciate you sharing it with us.
I love all these options. I have so many houseplants, as they just brighten up a room. And, with cats, it’s so important to have pet friendly plants!
Absolutely! Our pets are family too. House plants make our homes lovely and how fun to know, you already have a collection of them.Enjoy!
Thanks for a great list. We have a few house plants from your list already. I grew up with a grandmother who filled our home with houseplants! And although my thumb is not as green as hers was, it still feels bare without greenery!
Grandmothers are the best, they teach us such wonderful things as kids that we carry with us, much into adulthood.Growing plants, be it indoors or outdoors takes some trial and error & eventually we get the hang of it.You definitely sound like you are on the right track to being a green thumb(er) yourself, just don’t give up!
I love the African violet. I used to have them and my grandma would divide them. So pretty. I should get one of those again.
Glad to know our blog post triggered such fun & good memories, especially about grand moms.I was very fond of mine too.Enjoy your African violets. May it always remind you of good times.
I love my spider and prayer plants. I thought they’d both grow faster than they do though. My succulents are the surprise though. I have a TON outside. But I didn’t they’d like it indoors and they’re doing so well!!
How fun. The spider plants do well as hanging plants too.Love the colors in the prayer plant myself.Succulents are easy to grow indoors and quite frankly do not need much care, yet they bring such joy when placed on a coffee table, a book shelf or simply by the windowsill. So happy to learn from all our readers, how each of us care for our plants. Thank you, for sharing.
I love those plants and have grown most of them at some point.
Wonderful. Yes, plants are such eye candy indoors, especially during the kind of winters we have here, where one aches to see some greenery at close range.Enjoy!
I’m going to look into a prayer plant. I have never seen one like that. So pretty! Great post!
Thank you. Glad we could be of help in helping you choose the plant for your home through our blog post.It’s encouraging words like yours, that help us create future posts that are beneficial for our readers. So appreciate your sharing.
Great info, those plant image are beautiful!
Thank you, so glad to know that you found our blog post helpful & informative.
This is a great list of house plants. We don’t have plants and we would have never known.
Happy to be of help through our blog post. Now you can choose easily which ones you want to bring home.Start small and before you know you will be a pro green thumb(er).Wishing you the very best, in your indoor plant hunting!
Great info! Will share this with a friend!
Thank you, for your kind words. So appreciate you sharing it with a friend.That really helps us get the word around about our blog, and more like minded ones can join our fast growing community of friends here in SMSS. We can all share & learn from each others on topics that interest us.
I’ve been looking for more house plant variety! This post is great timing!
So glad to hear that! Now you can pick the house plants you like for your home, our blog post made it easy for you.
Such a great list! I was thinking about polka dot plants but wasn’t sure if they were okay for dogs. Very helpful!
Thank you, for sharing. It’s encouraging words from readers like you & the positive feedback we get, that motivates and helps us create future posts that help our readers.Polka dot plants are safe with our pets at home & make such a pretty sight.Rest easy and know they are safe for your pets too.
It is so important to check on your indoor and outdoor plants to make sure they are pet safe!
Absolutely!
I love your ideas. Most of my indoor greenery is artificial (I know – Yuck!) but I’ve been wanting to change it out for live plants. I think that I could even grow some of these!
Nothing like living breathing plants indoors.A little extra work perhaps, but they certainly bring more joy than the artificial ones for sure. Give it a try and let us know how you like the change.One small step at a time, maybe start with a plant or two.
Great list!
Thank you.
This is a good list especially when they are puppies and chewing on everything.
LOL! agree. When they are puppies not only are they curious about our indoor plants, some of them are avid gardeners too:D in that, they uproot some containers and can be quite a handful. This is a safe indoor plant list for puppies and we will let you handle the uprooting bit 😉 😀 Enjoy your puppies and you plants, they grow up too fast.
Love this info! It’s so important for people to know/realize that our furbabies might get sick from some of our houseplants. Thanks for sharing this <3
You are most welcome. Same here, I share the same sentiment towards pets too!