10 Best Indoor Plants for Every Room of Your Home

Invest in your well-being by dropping a little green on some greens — indoor plants, that is. Potted houseplants bring beauty to your inside spaces, generating feel-good benefits along the way. This tropical bloomer is Anthurium, a south-of-the-border gem with an easy-grows-it personality. It’s a great choice for a kitchen, where it can help remove indoor pollutants. The plant experts at Costa Farms recommend giving it a bright window for the most blooms. Otherwise, medium light yields healthy green leaves with fewer flowers.

Before the elf on the shelf arrives, give your holiday scenery an easy pick-me-up with the bright blooms of Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera). Small pots of this no-fuss plant fit easily on shelves in any room of the house, adding a sizzling spot of color. Most holiday cacti come fully budded. Choose a plant with at least one open blossom so you get the color you want. Once the flower show ends, shift your plant to a window with medium to bright light for best growth and future blooms. Despite the name, this isn’t a true drought-loving cactus, so be sure to water it when soil feels dry to the touch.

Create a cheerful entry with a tropical punch of colorful leaves. Croton (Codiaeum) stages a year-round show with leaves in energizing shades, including green, gold, red and pink. Plants serve up the strongest hues when they receive bright light. Different croton varieties unfurl leaves with different shapes — thin and strappy, wide, cascading or twisted. Growers at Costa Farms suggest fertilizing croton during its strongest growing seasons: spring and summer. The rest of the year, skip the fertilizer. Water when soil is dry to the touch.

Elegant Rex begonia plants (front and center back) suit the ambience of a traditional or casual dining room. The plant tends toward the short side, making it a perfect complement to a table or sideboard. Average to bright light keeps colorful foliage looking its best, and you can always shift plants from window ledge to serving table for a living centerpiece. Rex begonia (Begonia rex) succumbs to overwatering easily. Costa Farms’ experts recommend keeping soil on the dry side to avoid that issue. Instead of watering when soil is dry, wait one more day before giving plants a drink. The taller plant on the table is a Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema).