The art to growing indoor plants successfully is to choose plants that suit your room conditions... An Aphidistra may not be as beautiful as a Cyclamen when looked in daylight. However, a healthy Aphidistra in a dimly-lit room is much more beautiful than an ailing Cyclamen in the same situation.
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So evaluate your room situation before you buy houseplants.
Look at the light source,
The direction the room is facing,
How many hours of sun the room gets every day,
Is it air-conditioned?
Are there draughts?
If you choose plants according to room condition, rather than just because you like the look of them, you’ll have a much greater success.
Following is a list of plants suitable to different conditions.
Easy Indoor Plants- Plants for Air Conditioned Rooms
Air conditioning tends to remove the heat and humidity from the air. But this is the very thing that most indoor plants like. Also, machines are often turned off at night, so that plants endure temperature and humidity extremes twice a day. When air conditioning runs continuously, plants have a better chance adapting to these artificial conditions.
Even a brightly lit room has shadowy patches. You'll find them behind doors, in corners and behind tall furniture. Plants are more sensitive to light than we are, and most will not like being four meters or more from the window. So don't treat 'em like mushrooms.
The list of plants that will tolerate low light areas is rather short. Usually, plants with dark green, glossy leaves perform well in darkish spots.
This is usually a part of the room that is 1.5 to 3 meters from a window where the light is stronger, but still diffused. All the plants in the previous list will find it satisfactory, but if there is more light the list of possibilities is a good deal longer.
The list of plants that will thrive in bright light is far longer than the previous lists, so where there is plenty of light it is possible to grow a greater variety of plants. The area with the best light would be about a meter away from the window. In particular, windowsills where the sun does not come burning through the glass are suitable spots.
Verandas would be ideal for most of the plants on this list.