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GARDENER'S
READING ROOM
Indoor Plants
Houseplants
for Low Lighting
 Do
our dim winter days (all 6 _ hours of them) sometimes get
you down? You may feel you’ll go crazy from lack of light,
but what of your poor houseplants? They can STARVE if they
don’t get enough light to photosynthesize! Fortunately,
some plants can thrive in the dimmest of situations - even
a standard Northwest interior in November.
Here
are some of our favorite "low lights":
-
Aglaonemia
- Asplenium nidis (Bird’s Nest Fern)
- Aspidistra (Cast Iron Plant)
- Chamaedora Palms—Parlor Palm, Bamboo Palm, Reed Palm
- Hedera helix (English Ivy)
- Howea forsterana (Kentia Palm)
- Phoenix roebeliana (Dwarf Date Palm)
- Schefflera arboricola
- Sansevieria (Snake Plant)
By
Opal Guillotte
Skylights Autumn 2000, Vol 14, No. 3
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