Turn Your Home into a Botanical Wonderland: How to Grow an Easy Indoor Garden

Living in a city has many benefits, but gardening is not necessarily one of them because there is so much less green space in a city dwelling. This is particularly true if you live in an apartment. That does not mean that you should give up your dream of an urban garden, even if it means you must bring your outdoor pleasures to the indoors of your home. Likewise, the wintertime anywhere is not typically conducive to gardening. Whether you are living in the city, or simply frozen out of your garden, there are plenty of indoor plants that don't require an intense amount of care for you to create a full and rich garden space in your home in the winter or year round.

First, what you want to remember is that low light plants are a must. There are numbers of them, and they make it possible to put your little garden in any room where there is a window. This frees you from having to get and install grow lights in your home. Grow lights will spike your utilities and be an added expense when you're at the plant store picking out your new companions. You can grow a rich and lush garden indoors with a rack and some plants from Home Depot, or whatever garden center you may choose.

You will need a table or a set of shelves to set your plants on. You can get hanging baskets to hang from the ceiling with hooks, but this if you are not going to hang them, they will need a place to rest where you can see them and water them without having to do acrobatic moves. A set of shelves with open spaces between them will work nicely, but as your plants become bigger and fuller, there will be a need for you to move them somewhere that is more spacious to meet their growing needs. This will happen with different plants over different intervals of time. For example, an air plant will grow lush and long within a few months, but a cactus will take much more time to grow significantly.

Here are some excellent choices for low light, indoor winter gardens or year round urban gardens.