Herself's Houseplants

I saw a request for which types of plants are good for dish gardens recently. First decide if you wish to do a dry desert type dish garden or a tropical garden. Traditional dish gardens do not have drainage in the container. I usually provide some in mine.

Here are some commonly used dish garden plants that have worked well for many.

Wet:
Carnivorous plants
African Violets
Pothos
Podocarpus
Pittosporum
Pepperomia
Syngonium
Bromeliad
Croton
Pteris fern
Creeping Fig
Neanthe Bella palm

Dry:
Jade
Crassula
Kalanchoe
Sedum
Pilosocereus
Haworthia
Aloe
Cleistocactus
Sansevieria
Echeveria
Lithops
Graptopetalum

But the best thing to do is visit a nursery or two, look for small plants with similar growing needs.

See also on this site:
Dish gardens in stainless steel bowls
More dish garden ideas, wire frame holders

I’ve been experimenting with indoor water gardening since I’ve seen the cool gardens at the flower show. This is more of an indoor bog garden than full underwater garden. I’m still looking for cool plants for one that is totally under water.

Lucky bamboo and rush, both straight and curly, do excellent in indoor water gardens. The rush will eventually get to be about 2′ tall, about the same as the lucky bamboo is right now. It will also fill out so it is not so sparse.

I’m told umbrella plants (cyperus involucratus ) do very well indoors too. The store has been out each time I’ve been by. Papyrus does not do well indoors. Mine took about a week to start looking unhappy and I re-planted it outdoors.

These plants are just planted in the vase with rocks to keep the lucky bamboo standing upright. The rocks will also help to hide some of the roots from the rush.

These plants can be found in places that sell pond supplies. I find they sell out almost as fast as the stores stock them so you may have to obtain them online.