I'm doing reasonably ok with my outdoor stuff (given the weather) but I am failing dismally to keep anything alive indoors. Apart from a few herbs on the window sill, I can't keep any houseplants alive. I don't know whether I'm just making bad choices of what sort of plants to have, but I was really hoping to have some flowering plants indoors for a splash of colour. I don't have much room but want to have one plant in the kitchen window and another in the bathroom. I guess the bathroom is the trickiest one to crack as the light will be reduced due to the frosted glass in the windows.
So far I've had a begonia in the kitchen window but the flowers fell off almost as soon as they formed and it ended up leaning so far to one side it just collapsed (I should have supported it sooner - by the time I realised this it was too late). I also had a pot chrysanthemum in the bathroom but it was dead as a dodo after about 2 weeks. Then I bought a lovely yellow gerbera for the bathroom but the flowers started to shrivel up within a few days and have now all died.
Are there any flowering plants that will survive being indoors with the fluctuating temperatures of kitchen and bathroom? Those are really the only places where a plant will get any decent light in my flat. should I give up on flowers and go for non flowering plants? Or just accept that anything I buy will not last longer than buying cut flowers and will have to be replaced regularly?
So far I've had a begonia in the kitchen window but the flowers fell off almost as soon as they formed and it ended up leaning so far to one side it just collapsed (I should have supported it sooner - by the time I realised this it was too late). I also had a pot chrysanthemum in the bathroom but it was dead as a dodo after about 2 weeks. Then I bought a lovely yellow gerbera for the bathroom but the flowers started to shrivel up within a few days and have now all died.
Are there any flowering plants that will survive being indoors with the fluctuating temperatures of kitchen and bathroom? Those are really the only places where a plant will get any decent light in my flat. should I give up on flowers and go for non flowering plants? Or just accept that anything I buy will not last longer than buying cut flowers and will have to be replaced regularly?
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