5 of the best TALL indoor plants
Tall Indoor Plants instantly transform a room by adding height, texture and a bold design statement. Whether you’re filling an empty corner or creating a tropical indoor oasis, large houseplants like Strelitzia, Ficus Lyrata, Rubber Burgundy, Rhapis Palm and Dracaena fragrans ‘Massangeana’ bring life and structure to any space.
Strelizia - Giant Bird of Paradise 🦜🏝
This Giant Birds of Paradise are one of our favourites among all the indoor tall tropical style plants. Strelitzia are easy to grow and maintain, growing fast and producing large beautiful unfolding leaves.
Ideal for: An individual tropical showstopper in your home or office, or pair up with other plants in a green corner of your home.
Care Tip: Thrives in bright indirect light and being kept well-watered.
Ficus Lyrata - Fiddle leaf fig 🎻🌿
Fiddle Leaf Figs are a popular indoor plant that can be notorious to be hard to care for but with the right spot and watering schedule, Ficus Lyratas become a well-loved sculptured are sold as small plants or as tall indoor plants, they are easy to grow and care for once you find the perfect spot for it and refine the watering schedule.
Ideal for: Large statement plants that can be shaped into a tree-like structure or keep its bushiness. Grow it tall and slender, or wide and bushy.
Care Tip: Fiddle Leaf Figs need a lot of bright light. Once you’ve mastered the right lighting, they make a great statement piece in your home or office.
Rhapis Palm 🏝
Rhaphis Palms are great for adding a tropical flare and wow! effect to your home!
Ideal for: Adding a tropical flare and wow effect to your home!
Care Tip: Thrives in bright indirect light - avoid low light areas and harsh afternoon sun where the heat can scorch the leaves.
Draceana fragrans ‘Massangeana'- Happy Plant 🤗🌱
Happy Plants also known as Dragon Trees and Dracaenas are very easy to grow tall indoor plants. They are very suitable for plants newbies and very busy people.
Ideal for: A hardy low-maintenance plant person as Dracaena are drought tolerant and don’t need to be watered often. A great air-purifier to help remove formaldehyde, xylene and trichloroethylene from the air.
Care Tip: Thrive in moderate-low light conditions. Avoid full sun or the plant touching a cold window as this will burn its leaves.
Ficus Elastica Burgandy - Rubber plant
Rubber trees, can be enjoyed as either medium-sized house plants or grown to become focal point, beautiful indoor trees. They can grow to impressive heights within a few years.
Ideal for: Beginner plant parents that want a large contrasting statement plant in their home, office or under a sheltered porch.
Care Tip: Thrives in bright indirect light but can also suit lower light environments.
🌿 Top 5 Tall Indoor Plants: A Comparison Guide
|
Plant Name |
Ideal for |
Light Level |
Maintenance |
Pet Friendly |
|
Strelitzia |
Large Tropical Statement |
Bright Indirect |
Beginner |
No |
|
Fiddle Leaf Fig |
Statement plant |
Bright Indirect |
Intermediate |
No
|
|
Rhapis Palm |
Texture/Volume |
Bright Indirect |
Moderate |
Yes |
|
Dracaena / Happy Plants |
Purifying your home |
Low-Moderate |
Beginner |
No |
|
Rubber Plant |
Indoors or under a sheltered porch |
Moderate-Bright Indirect |
Beginner |
No |
Looking for indoor plants in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Perth? Visit The Grow Centre to see these plants in person. 🌱
Still not sure what tall indoor plants will suit your space? Chat with us in the comments below and we'll help!
The best indoor plants for asthma and allergies
What are the best indoor plants for air purification, asthma, and allergy sufferers??? 🌬🌿
Well, according to NASA's "Clean air study" that was researching ways to keep air clean while on missions at the international space station. The below list of indoor plants where deemed to be the best, along with being easy care (which we love)
PEACE LILY ✌🏽🌱
Even if you’re not familiar with houseplants we bet you’ll recognise the Peace Lily. It might be the most common houseplant here in Oz – and for good reason. According to NASA’s research, this plant can help improve air quality by 60%. It neutralises benzene, formaldehyde, and carbon monoxide.
In addition, it can help reduce mould in the home. How does it reduce mould? The plant absorbs mould spores and converts them into food (amazing right?).
They look great on a dining table, on a bedroom dresser, or on the sink in a bathroom.
SPIDER PLANT 🕷🌱
Spider plants are another common indoor plant and great for people with asthma and allergies. They do more than just brighten up a room, they also clean the air.
They have the ability to remove a significant amount toxins in the household air within a few days – especially formaldehyde. The NASA study showed Spider plant performed the best of indoor plants with a 95 percent removal rate.
SNAKE PLANT 🐍🌱
This mod and sleek plant, is great at filtering out formaldehyde, which can be found in cleaning products, hair dyes and treatments, and even toilet paper (yikes). It gives off oxygen at night, making it a nice one near the bedroom, but prefers humidity, so the bathroom is a safe place to keep it happiest.
The Environmental Protection Agency states “indoor air can be 2-5 times worse than outdoor air”, so it makes sense to employ these useful plants in our homes. Why not pick one up this weekend and breathe easy 😊
How to grow a rubber plant
Do you own a rubber plant?! Keep it alive and well for years to come with these awesome rubber tree care tips!
Pro Tips:
💧 Rubber plants have two different seasons. Growing season and dormant season. Growing season occurs during the summer and this is when it needs the most water. During the dormant season, your plant needs much less water (sometimes needing water as little as once a month!) Just make sure that your plant is not sitting in water.
🌞 Rubber plants like bright, but indirect light. That means a nice sunny room, without being right in front of the window. If it has to be in some direct sunlight, it would prefer morning light, when the sun still isn't too harsh.
🌱 Clean the foliage often so that the leaves stay shiny an will be healthy as possible.
That's about it for the Rubber Plant! If you have any more tips or fun stories about your own rubber plants, feel free to leave a comment! And if you don't have one yet, head on into The Grow Centre and let us help you out choosing your new plant family member.
How to grow a fabulous fiddle leaf fig
Are you the proud plant parent of a fiddle leaf fig? Or perhaps it's next on the wish list... either way, follow these fabulous fiddle leaf fig care tips, and you'll be growing a full, lush, healthy plant, that you can enjoy for years to come.
Pro Tips:
💧The fiddle leaf fig likes its soil to be kept consistently evenly moist, with a brief drying out period between waterings, as it comes from an area of the world that gets very dry between rain. Water it throughly whenever the top 3cm of soil have dried. Allowing the soil to dry more than a few inches will lead to leaf loss, so be sure to check in with the soil regularly until you develop a routine with your plant. In contrast, too much moisture in the soil can lead to root rot and cause leaves to drop.
🌞Choose a location away from air vents and drafts where the tree will receieve plenty of bright ambient light. If you're unsure about your lighting conditions, placing the tree directly next to the window is the safest bet.
🌱Rotate your tree once a month to keep it standing straight and tall. Fiddle leaf figs in particular like t reach towards the light, so if you don't rotate you'll notice them bending over in time.