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As a community household of eight folks living in Brooklyn, our mission is to help everyone develop a green thumb, and surround themselves with plants in their homes. We not only buy, test, grow the plants and tools we recommend here, we also talk to professional gardeners, crawl the web for useful testimonials and present the information in a concise way so you find all you need to buy and care for houseplants in one place.
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Our ultimate plant list articles
Our ultimate plant list guides rank and compare houseplants by the traits that actually matter — oxygen output, light tolerance, pet safety, and how little they ask of you. Each list comes from plants we’ve grown ourselves in our Brooklyn brownstone!
Our handy houseplant charts
These houseplant charts turn our raw growing data into fast, scannable answers — oxygen production, light needs, cat toxicity, humidity, and maintenance level, all benchmarked across the same 50 popular houseplants. Use them to compare plants side by side before you buy, or to double-check a plant you already own.
Pink Houseplants
Pink houseplants like Pink Princess Philodendron, Tradescantia, and pink Alocasia varieties bring color into a room without needing flowers. This collection covers care, styling, and the soil and light conditions that keep pink variegation from fading back to green.
Purple Houseplants
Purple houseplants — from Purple Calathea to Burgundy Rubber Plant — hold their deep color best with the right light balance, since too much or too little can shift purple foliage toward green or muddy brown. Here’s our full guide to growing, styling, and troubleshooting purple plants based on what’s worked in our own collection.
Low light indoor trees
Low light indoor trees like Snake Plant, ZZ Plant, and Cast Iron Plant can fill a dim corner with real height without direct sun. We cover which trees actually tolerate low light long-term (not just survive a few weeks), plus the soil, pots, and watering habits that keep them healthy.
flowering houseplants
Flowering houseplants such as Peace Lily, African Violet, and Anthurium bring color indoors, but most stall out or refuse to rebloom without the right light and feeding schedule. This section covers how to get blooms in the first place, and how to keep them coming back.
Trailing houseplants
Trailing houseplants — Pothos, Tradescantia, String of Pearls, and more — are the easiest way to add movement and softness to shelves, hanging baskets, and walls. We cover training vines to climb or cascade, plus the soil and trellis setups that keep them growing long instead of leggy.
