Maranta Plant for Interior Decorating

Shade loving house plants are great ideas for decorating home interior. Maranta belongs to the arrowroot family of low light tolerant house plants. It is a family of flowering tropical plants, known for their large starchy rhizomes. These shade loving house plants are ideal for decorating a home interior with small windows and dark corners.

Maranta is a native of Brazil. Maranta are small, tropical, low light tolerant house plants that are perfect for inexpensive and attractive room decorating or staging home interiors for quick sale. Broad oval house plants leaves grow up to 5 inches or12 cm long by half as wide. These indoor plants add beautiful rich green color accents to modern home decor, offering healthy natural accessories for eco homes. (Smart kitchen decorating with edible herbs)

Individual house plants reach up to 10 inches or 25 cm in height and make great, showy home interior decoration. Often low light tolerant house plants are used in fito-design compositions for decorating a home interior that is lacking natural light.

Dark green house plant leaves lie horizontal to the ground. They are arranged in two rows with the petioles having a sheathing base. The leaf blade is narrow or broad with pinnate veins running parallel to the midrib. These indoor plants have underground rhizomes or tubers.

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Leaves may change its direction. They are horizontal in good conditions, while the lack of light forces leaves to move upward and fold together. It looks very attractive, and the indoor plant is ideal for decorating a home interior with dark corners.

Maranta blooms in late spring to early summer, but its very small white flowers with tender purple spots are not particularly impressive.

Maranta for decorating a home interior

Maranta Leuconeura Erythroneuro needs full shade and warm temperatures, above 16-18C or 60 – 64F. These house plants do not like direct sunlight, love humidity and a lot of watering. Low light tolerant house plants, like maranta, are great for basement, laundry room and bathroom decorating or other rooms, located on the northern side of a house.

Low light tolerant house plant naturally grows well indoor. Trimmed at least twice a year, this indoor plant is growing vigorously, particularly in summer, and is easily propagated by division. Charming fern and maranta plants offer attractive and cheap ideas for decorating a home interior that is lacking light and/or any interest. (Fern home decor for room windows facing north)

Maranta is easy to care for and attractive house plant that helps decorate bathrooms, family rooms, home offices and kitchens, and happily survives cloudy days. The plant is great for home staging, which prepares home for sale.

Although these low light tolerant house plants require relatively bright location, they grow well in dark corners. Maranta plants are lovely, inexpensive, decorating items that create healthier interior decor and clean the air. (How to decorate kitchen with green plants and save money)

Maranta is on the top list of ‘eco-friendly’ green house plants that improve home air quality very effectively. (Green home decor that cleans air – top eco-friendly house plants)

Beautiful shade loving house plants with rich green leaves

Maranta plant, effective and cheap ideas for decorating home interior spaces

Tips for growing healthy house plants

1. In late spring, summer and fall these low light tolerant house plants can be moved outside to a shady place, if the weather is warm enough. The soil temperature should not fall below 18C or 64F.

2. A soil mix should consist of 2 parts peat moss to 1 part loam to 1 part sand or perlite. Weekly fertilizing with a balanced fertilizer diluted to ½ the strength is recommended for these tropical plants.

3. Since maranta plants have a shallow root system, they should be planted in shallow pots. Re-potting should only be done if the plant outgrows its container.

4. The soil should never be allowed to dry out. Maranta plants prefers soft water at room temperature. The soil should be always moist, but there should be no excess water in a pot.

5. These house plants need to be frequently sprayed to avoid the appearance of dry spots on house plants leaves.

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