Don't let anyone fool you -- indoor gardening is just as fun as having an outdoor garden. In fact, indoor plants not only help clean the environment around them, but they act as a quick decorating tool.
With the growing number of people living in apartments now, there are an increasing number of us that want a little bit of greenery in the house and therefore give indoor gardening a go. Gardening indoors essentially involves flower pots and the great array of them would definitely make a statement in style in themselves. Indoor gardening however has certain aspects that is unique to it ie the plant is totally dependent on you for lighting, humidity changes, temperature changes, as well as the usual pot plant needs such as feeding and watering.
Challenges of Indoor gardening
The challenges that face the indoor household (or office) plant is immense. It often has to tolerate a wider range of fluctuations in humidity and temperature levels than a plant would outdoors. Take your usual pot plant on the window sill for example. In the daytime, it would experience scorching sun as the glass pane tends to focus heat on the plant a lot more and then in the night time assuming you turn on the air conditioning to cool the house down, the plant experiences cold and a sudden drop in humidity. That's a big ask. Indoor plants already have the usual stresses that pots in flower pots would encounter (eg the odd day when you forget to water and then you decide to give it a double dose when you do remember) plus these additional ones relating to the climate in the room, it's no wonder that so many indoor plants don't thrive. But take heart, with a bit of diligence on your part and some tender loving care, indoor gardening can prove to be a rewarding endeavour.
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