Low and High Light Houseplants
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Picking houseplants is best done with consideration for their light requirements, not your own personal tastes (hard as it may be). Lisa and I offer some suggestions on the best plants to choose in each lighting condition.
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| 0:15.2 | Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast we are joined again by the house plan guru Lisa Steinkov she's a |
| 0:20.0 | blogger freelance writer house plan enthusiast has, what did you say? |
| 0:24.4 | 240 plus at least in your house right now, Lisa? |
| 0:27.8 | Well that's just on the first floor. |
| 0:28.9 | There's a huge sunroom and the upstairs and the light gardens and the. |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah, so let's just say maybe at least three or 400, |
| 0:36.2 | which is drastically more than I have at my house. |
| 0:39.9 | That would actually be my house. |
| 0:41.3 | My house is quite small, this new place I'm in. So if I had that many of that my house. This new place I'm in. |
| 0:43.0 | So if I had that many of that my home would be a plant. |
| 0:46.0 | It's just not that big. |
| 0:48.0 | But we're talking today about low and highlight house plants |
| 0:52.0 | and sort of like what can you offer your plants in your home and so it's a different approach to light I think and I'm curious what you mean by that Lisa |
| 1:00.0 | So when you like we were talking yesterday about going to a store to choose a plant and |
| 1:06.2 | and we all go to the store and just see it maybe go in there for one plant and bring home 10 others |
| 1:12.6 | or and don't even really research. |
| 1:14.1 | I'm like, I gotta have that plant. |
| 1:15.8 | I do that all the time. |
| 1:17.1 | So, but what, if you're really, you know, |
| 1:19.9 | have a spot for a plant, what do you have to offer it? |
| 1:22.2 | Do you have highlight? Do you have high light? Do you have low light? You know, really figure out what you have because you cannot bring home a fiddily fig and put it in a north window even. |
| 1:36.5 | You probably could be okay in a north window like we talked about yesterday if maybe you started |
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