Seven Houseplants That Will Do Well in Your Kitchen

Having a houseplant is the best and easiest way to enlighten any corner of your living space. If we talk specifically about the kitchen area, indoor plants can act as an air purifier, add an impressive look that spruce up its design, and keep your kitchen fresh all day long. Remember, there’s no houseplant that fits every kitchen, so pick plants according to your home temperature, humidity, and light conditions.

For now, these seven houseplants are best for a start!

Rubber Tree (Ficus elastica)

Your search for a big statement plant to add into the kitchen can end with rubber trees (Ficus elastica). This fiddle leaf fig relative is a fantastic choice and easy-going as a houseplant. In its native habitat, the Ficus plant can mature into a full-sized tree. When grown as an indoor houseplant, ensure its regular pruning to keep its size and shape controllable. You can pick from multiple varieties of rubber trees that go with the design and colour of your kitchen. Rubber trees are also easy to care for.

Coffee Plant (Coffea arabica)

Whether or not you love coffee, the coffee plant (Coffea arabica) can be a lovely collection for your kitchen. While you cannot reap coffee beans from your indoor houseplant, its lustrous leaves with compact growing habits make it much more appealing, nonetheless. This plant demands bright, indirect sunlight and regular watering to blossom excellently.

Spider Plant (Chlorophytum)

Spider plant is among one of the easiest-to-care-for kind of indoor houseplants. Chlorophytum makes a happily flowering outstanding hanging plant that prolifically sends out its offshoots. Save your plant from direct sunlight by placing it near a window to prevent its leaves from burning.

Golden Pothos / Devil's Ivy (Epipremnum aureum)

The golden pothos aka Devil's Ivy is genuinely considered as some of the easiest indoor plants to care for and can lighten your kitchen differently. They adapt incredibly to various light conditions and are believed to be quite drought-tolerant. In addition, they make stunning hanging houseplants, so you don’t need to have extra counter space for them.

Philodendron

Philodendron is a genus of highly low-maintenance indoor plants that look stunning in hanging baskets. Like pothos, it is relatively drought-resistant and can do well in bright to moderate indirect sunlight. This indoor foliage plant has a wide variety of colors, shapes and is considered a great air-purifier.

Succulents

Succulents are the low-maintenance houseplants that would love to rest in the bright sunlit windowsill of your kitchen and thrive ideally. These indoor succulents reserve water in their stems and leaves, making them drought-resistant. There are hundreds of distinct species of succulents with a wide variety of splendid colors, shapes, and sizes. Echeveria, aloe vera, haworthia, sedum, kalanchoe and crassula are the most widespread succulent species to grow indoors.

Snake Plant (Sansevieria)

Snake plant, also popular with the common name of "mother-in-law's tongue", is among the most low-maintenance types of indoor plants for homes and undoubtedly for some good reasons. Sansevieria has a wide variety of distinct shades, forms, and sizes that can be the right pick for your kitchen. This tropical plant won’t take up much of the window space and can thrive nicely in bright to low light settings.

Now that you know wht sort of indoor plants you can use to spruce up your kitchen, how about some nice plant-themed kitchenwares to boost your kitchen aesthetic even more?