Provide indoor boston ferns with additional humidity as needed.
Living room boston fern indoor.
This diverse plant family comes in an array of colors and textures including delicate lacy fronds and smooth substantial foliage.
All ferns love moisture and should be given humid conditions.
Kitchens and bathrooms are the perfect places to keep them.
Avoid warm air from indoor heating and cold drafts.
Hardy from zones 10 12.
Boston ferns prefer lots of light and they ll need to be misted every day.
Ferns also love being misted at regular intervals with tepid soft water unless the humidity of the whole room is.
A now famous 1989 nasa study found that houseplants can reduce indoor air pollutants such as benzene and formaldehyde.
Popular since victorian times boston ferns are now among the most common houseplants.
The ideal room temperatures for boston ferns is between 60 75ºf 16 24ºc.
Temperature is one of the most vital factors for keeping ferns alive indoors.
Most ferns prefer indirect light which means you should avoid placing them where sunlight will hit them their leaves can get scorched if you do resulting in a dry crispy plant usually the amount of light they would get near a north or east facing window is perfect.
For the indoor ferns.
Boston ferns graceful produce arching branches covered with soft emerald green fronds.
In their natural habitat these ferns will be provided small amounts of sunshine under trees shaded.
Wide wrap around porches are only complete when boston ferns are hanging from the rafters.
But if the temperature of your bedroom and the living room goes up which will certainly happen in the summertime you need to cool it down.
Here are nine favorites to get you started.
This voluptuous easy care fern grows just as well on porches and patios as it does gracing your front hall or living room.
They can be a bit of a diva indoors.
Sunrooms bright kitchens and guest rooms also gain life with the addition of these gorgeous ferns.
Indoors boston ferns will also help remove toxins such as toluene and xylene from the air.
In living rooms and family rooms stand their pots on trays of damp pebbles or clay granules.
And a pop of greenery looks good with any living room style.
So what are the best living room plants for your living room.
Below are recommend indoor conditions for optimal fern growth.
The boston fern nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis is one cultivar of a fern species that can grow as tall as 7 feet in its native habitat bosoniensis is a more demure variety a well known fern that has been long admired for its desirable traits as a houseplant boston ferns are attractive specimens with long graceful fronds bedecked with tiny leaves.
No lower than 55ºf 13ºc.
Alternatively you can try putting them on a tray of pebbles filled with water.
Without enough light their leaves can turn yellow and the plant won.
Don t expect them to grow in complete darkness though.
