13 Flowering houseplants 🌸
Most houseplants earn their place on foliage alone, but these bring colour too. Every plant here is one whose notes highlight its flowers - showy, colourful or long-lasting blooms you can genuinely coax indoors, rather than a leafy plant that only flowers once in a blue moon.
Flowers ask a bit more: most bloomers want brighter light and steady feeding in the growing season, and many need a specific trigger - a cool rest, shorter days - to set buds. Worth it when they open.
African Violet (Saintpaulia / Streptocarpus)
The African Violet is the small, cheerful classic that can flower almost continuously, all year…
Bromeliad (Guzmania, Aechmea, Neoregelia & more)
Bromeliads are the bold, exotic, long-lasting flowering plants that bring a true tropical splash…
Christmas Cactus (Schlumbergera)
The Christmas Cactus is a beloved heirloom houseplant - the one that bursts into vivid, exotic b…
Cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum)
The Cyclamen is the elegant, cool-season flowering plant that brightens homes through autumn and…
Dendrobium Orchid
The Dendrobium is one of the largest and most diverse genera of orchids in the world, with well…
Epiphyllum (Orchid Cactus)
The Epiphyllum - commonly called the Orchid Cactus - is a jungle cactus that breaks all the rule…
Fishbone Cactus (Epiphyllum anguliger)
The Fishbone Cactus - Epiphyllum anguliger - is a trailing jungle cactus grown above all for its…
Hatiora (Easter Cactus)
The Easter Cactus (Hatiora gaertneri, sometimes sold as Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri or Schlumberger…
Kalanchoe (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana)
The Flaming Katy Kalanchoe is the cheerful, easy succulent that you buy already bursting with fl…
Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)
The Peace Lily is one of the few easy houseplants that flowers reliably indoors.
Phalaenopsis Orchid (Moth Orchid)
The Phalaenopsis, or Moth Orchid, is the orchid for everyone.
Streptocarpus (Cape Primrose)
Streptocarpus - commonly called Cape Primrose - is one of the most rewarding flowering houseplan…
String of Turtles (Peperomia prostrata)
The String of Turtles - Peperomia prostrata - is a delicate, slow-growing trailing plant grown a…
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