20 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…
Bishop's Cap Cactus
The bishop's cap is a spineless, sculptural little cactus shaped like a plump star or a bishop's…
Bromeliad (Guzmania, Aechmea, Neoregelia & more)
Bromeliads are the bold, exotic, long-lasting flowering plants that bring a true tropical splash…
Byblis (Rainbow Plant)
Byblis is the rainbow plant - a haze of thread-fine leaves beaded in glue that splits sunlight i…
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…
Flaming Katy
Flaming Katy is the cheerful, mass-market kalanchoe you see banked up in supermarkets, smothered…
Hatiora (Easter Cactus)
The Easter Cactus (Hatiora gaertneri, sometimes sold as Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri or Schlumberger…
Hoya Kerrii (Sweetheart Hoya)
Hoya kerrii is the valentine of the plant world - thick, perfectly heart-shaped leaves sold by t…
Kalanchoe (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana)
The Flaming Katy Kalanchoe is the cheerful, easy succulent that you buy already bursting with fl…
Mexican Butterwort
Mexican butterworts are the flypaper violets - innocent pastel rosettes whose greasy leaves are…
Old Lady Cactus
The old lady cactus is a plump, globe-shaped Mammillaria wrapped in a soft-looking veil of fine…
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.
Phragmipedium (S. American Slipper)
Phragmipediums are the slippers that love water - South American pouch orchids that grow streams…
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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