Most indoor plants are bought impulsively: you see a plant in the store, you like it, but having come home, you begin figuring out how to look after it. In this case, you should find a place for the plant, where it would get as much light and heat as it requires, and make sure that the surroundings and lighting set off its beauty.

Necessary lighting can be natural or artificial. It is best to use lamps with a point source of light or spotlights, but they give a lot of heat. Turn on the lamp and hold your hand over the nearest leave to the lamp. If you feel heat, it means the plant is too close to the lamp.

To achieve maximum visual effect, you can first look to a room where it will stand. Perhaps the plant is acquired to revive a boring room with a bright color spot or green. When you bring  indoor plants home, try different ways of placing pots, to see where they make the best impression.

Choosing background

For most  indoor plants the best backdrop is a simple, light-colored wall. This applies especially to green decorative plants and plants with bright flowers.

Small leaves are lost on the background of the wallpaper with large pattern. Place plants with such leaves on the background of smooth wall.

Choosing a place

On the floor

Place for a large single plant - on the floor: a big pot on the table would look bulky. Typically, people take a plant with an attractive form of the crown. Sometimes the plant can cover the empty space or divide a room apart. Most of all they use palms, false palm trees and other plants.

The most suitable  indoor plants:

Araucaria heterophyllous

Diffenbachia

Dracaena

Palms

Fatsa

Waringin

Ficus elastica

Philodendron two-pennate

Tsiperus

Umbrella plant

Yucca

On the windowsill

Choose a plant, which leaves beauty would be emphasized by light falling on them or translucent through them, for example, hypoestes or iresine. Of course, you should pick up the kind, which would be harmonized with the surrounding environment - a small inconspicuous plant on the big screen is unlikely to look beautiful. Southern window should be shadowed in summer. Check whether the land dried up: the sun in summer and radiators in winter may force you to endlessly watering  indoor plants. If the view from the window is not important for you and you do not need much light, think, may be you should hang a pot over the plant, standing on the windowsill.

Hanging to the ceiling

There is no better way to place a climber than putting it in a container suspended to the ceiling or on a bracket in the wall. Suspended single plant can visually increase the height of composition from standing plants or enliven a dull wall or a deep box. Taking care of  indoor plants in a hanging basket is not easy: watering them is much harder, than plants standing on the floor or a windowsill.

Support or hanging basket

Some  indoor plants with long arcuate stems look unattractive, if located on the bedside table or windowsill. These plants should be set on a special high-stand, or placed in a hanging basket.

This especially concerns ample plants. They are best placed in baskets or on high tables separately from other plants.

Such indoor plants will look good:

Z. truncatus

Columnea

Nephrolepis

Chlorophytum

On the wall

The walls are usually revived by decorative plants and lianas. Since the pots are small, the plants should be watered more often, but when they are so high, it is difficult to determine when they need watering. With this method of placement, choose strong, not too colorful pots with large enough and deep pan.

Groupping indoor plants

Arrangement of pot plants

Pot group are plants in pots or separate containers, set close to each other for the effect of large patches of greenery. Composition of plants produces a stronger impression than each plant separately. Rear leaves can be elevated to increase the height of the composition.

Indoor plants with small leaves, such as dwarf ficus, maidenhair, helxine or tradescantia look unattractive separately, but are very beautiful close to large leaves of other plants in composition.

Well-groomed appearance, required for an individual plant, is not important in composition. Disadvantages are easy to hide if you put a few pots together.

Plants are watered easily when they are gathered together than apart in different corners. Abundant foliage and evaporation from a large area of soil increases air humidity.

Flower-pots

Single flower-pots are a common type of indoor garden. Until recently, they mainly used oblong box made of metal, wood or plastic, but recently a wide range of colorful cylindrical and cubic containers made of hard plastic appeared.

While watering you should be careful that peat surrounding pots would not absorb too much moisture. If the peat layer is thick enough, the roots of  indoor plants can grow through the drainage holes in turf and get moisture out of it. In that case, if pots are on a layer of gravel or a layer of peat beneath is thin, it is necessary to lift and rotate the pots from time to time to prevent root penetration.

Whatever the size of the indoor garden is, an impression of it must emphasize the background you choose for it. Wood, tile or mirror tiles are good for this.

Landscape composition

This is a special kind of indoor garden - landscape composition that imitates a real miniature garden. For decoration they use tracks from small pebbles or gravel, reservoirs. To create a landscape they place moss and  indoor plants with tiny leaves - they play the role of grass and trees.

They place such composition on a small table with wheels to roll it out in good weather or carry in a room for watering.

Caring for such mini-garden is difficult, it requires imagination, artistic ability and a real passion. Otherwise, such garden will not look properly.