good quality artificial plants can look great but old fashioned Aspidistra and succulents are very hard to kill

Aluminium plants are hardy.

Succulents are wonderful!

I'm a plant-killer from way back (which I'm very sad about), so I just get faux plants now. You can get really great quality ones that look so real these days - I love the orchis and the fiddle leaf figs best, but there are heaps of options. I just dust them every week or so and move them to another room for a change of scene every now and again, but they always look great and I get lots of lovely comments from visitors.

I wrote a blog about fiddle leaf figs http://www.sartorialinteriors.com.au/31-pix-fiddle-leaf-fig-trees-perfect/

And here's a pic of some of the faux orchids

ANyway - if you'd like to discuss this further, my mob is 0450 284 922

Good luck!

I'm not very good with plants lol ..

1/ install a drip system on a timer

2/ succulents , birds of paradise , ferns (shade), agapanthus , clivia (shade) daphne (shade)

I killed my "thrive on neglect" plant. Artificial, followed by succulents.

Thanks Wuff! My all time favourite plant, which seems to thrive indoors (it's by a window which gets late afternoon sun), is a peperomia.

Ps. Wuff, what's your secret with the phal orchids, I've killed two already!?

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these do very well they are wild orchids gives red/pink or orange flowers no need to water or anything if outside needs some bark sand so they can wrap their roots around.

we installed a drip watering system as they are not directly in the element ie rain doesn't get to them

wuff you're good ..I tend to give them to my parents and all my half dead ones so dad can revive them

petapea..mum said something about taking them outside for a breather

roses are good too just need to prune them every Winter

I've got kumquat plants that's been with us since 1998 we took the pots when we moved..we've since repotted them and they are still good

Japanese maple is another needs shade

ever since we've installed the drip system on a timer we hardly had to do much at all with them..

so far so good haven't killed anymore plants and they are all thriving

Brightpink, I've not tried ferns, I tend to go succulent-types, also had some success with diffenbaccia (I like the Starbright, pic attached, lovely light green foliage). I'm about to try some lime green moss in a bowl as I like the look of that as well. Good luck with your picks, love to see what you choose once you get them home.

Hi brightpink, you might want to check out an article posted just today on the Houzz website (under Stories) - House Plants that create Natural Bathroom Bliss. :-)

Hi petapea, the phal orchids, I have killed more that two but now have one with three stems of buds and I am pretty happy with myself... I went to an orchid fair..advice was plant them in blue metal. Yes blue metal!!! I mixed some spagnum moss and charcoal through my blue metal. I water only when blue metal not looking dark. We have been going through a cool spring so about every two to four weeks. They sit in a north facing window and when I water I using strike back for orchids liquid fertiliser every third of fourth time just water to flush. It has taken two to three years and many sad phal deaths to succeed

That's great, Wuff, I shall definately try the blue metal trick, thanks! Cool spring here in Perth too, so I've had to watch I dont over water my indoors this year, I usually only give them a drink water once/week (twice in the heat of summer) but it's the amount that is hard to get right sometimes.

I am in Bunbury

My latest inside acquisition- it's called Sagina (Gold Pearlwort), and I'm hoping it will grow right out to the sides.

Hey brightpinkdesk? Is that a photo of a Christmas cactus?

Ken