Designer Houseplants | plants used in Interior Design

Currently I have 3 🌳 that I use like dividers: one from the hallway to the bedroom (ficus elastica, branched out), two between the office and the livingroom (hibiscus red dragon, branched out, super tall; and a dracaena marginata on a metal stand that I also used as a display for other smaller plants that sit on top of the soil). I did this cause those are literally the only places where the trees would fit 😂 so I'm glad to hear they're ✨interior design✨. I grew all three from cuttings. Edit: I just realized my pachira aquatica is close to outgrowing its corner and I also have a false aralia (was schaefflera elegantissima, was reclasified, I can't remember the new name) that is super tiny now... but will grow into a tree. 🙂

i’m a college student renting places and would love to see advice on how to make rooms pretty when they’re carpeted and maybe don’t have the best lighting!! it’s been a struggle

I work at a nursery that occasionally sells shady lady trees and I'm the one who takes care of them in a commercial setting. From what I've seen, these things are marketed as indoor plants and are even grown in the same greenhouse conditions that most of our other houseplants come from for a majority of their life. When they come in however, I always move them outside to our shaded patio room that is covered by a roof with skylights, but is still an outdoor area. These guys really seem to prefer being outdoor getting some wind blown through them and seem to stagnate when I bring them indoors for staging. I would say it thrives best as an outdoor patio tree, but with enough acclimation and assuming it was originally grown in a greenhouse environment, I see no reason it could be fully indoors granted it gets PLENTY of light. One other thing to note is that it is one of the most frequently returned indoor trees that I see in the nursery due to them not being cared for correctly.

I cannot wait for the Japan videos. Benji, you may not be aware, but you have become so much more relaxed, and confident, and at ease with all this. You are doing so well! I rely on YT videos to quiet my mind and help me deal with things. Your videos are the first ones I seek out. Thank you.

Hiya Benji, I’ve also been after an everfresh tree for the longest time and couldn’t seen to find any(I’m from the UK) but I did some research and came across a few other varieties within the Fabaceae family that are incredibly similar, one being acacia dealbata(and several other acacia) as well as albizia julibrissin and another one calliandra tweedi, i think there are also different varieties of the latter two as well that share the bi-pinnate fan like leaves, I have all three and find them to all be pretty fast growers, my Calliandra has almost doubled in height since I got it a few months ago, and the other two I have smaller varieties that make for spectacular little bonsai-esque house plants if you wire them. :)

The reason why everfresh trees are hard to come by in certain areas is due to them being heavily invasive in some parts of the world

Australian here. I have a 2m bottle tree with a gorgeous swollen trunk. Yet it WILL NOT survive inside for no longer that a few days. Another stage plant.

I’m currently growing pomegranates and loquats from seed—it’s taking quite a bit of time 😅 I like loquats because they have fuzzy leaves, and the fruit is absolutely delicious (I know, I’m going to have to wait like three years haha).

Hey Benji. Great vid, just wanted to point out something. Maybe its the angle of the camera but there seems to be a potentially abnormal lump on your neck, not to alarm you or anything. Just go get it checked out if thats the case. Stay safe - much love a med student from Cyprus

Thanks Benji. I’m so inspired!!! I’m from Australia and I know native plants here have to have different fertilisers and soil. We have specialised ones for native plants. Just a warning for anyone buying the bottle tree.

It's 3 am in vietnam btw

You have definitely done a lot of research on these ‘decorative house trees’, Benji! Most of them seem to be so unfamiliar to I am sure many of us! So thanks for sharing! And have a wonderful trip to Japan!!! 😀

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Last Sunday I was wondering “Where’s benjis video??” I’m so excited :))

I have a Brachychiton rupestris that I grew from seed three years ago and I'm very satisfied with it. In this short time span it reached a height of two meters with beautiful leaves in the same small pot of like 20 centimeters of diameter in which I originally sow it. This year in late spring I decided to prune it (both roots and trunk) and repot it in the same pot with fresh soil and only two weeks after it was already full of 5 new branches and leaves which is awesome. It's also incredibly drought-tolerant, you can leave it with bone-dry soil for two weeks whenever you want and I doesn't drop a single leaf!

I love that you included plants used in Asian interior design, bc they add their own style and sensibility to Western design, which I love.

My fiddleleaf fig used to be a column form, which i did not want. It took me years to get it to branch out, until finally, in frustration, i just put it outside somewhat under a tree to get partial sun during the summer, and watered it way more often than i ever did when it was inside. Within months it branched off. Four branches, and then multiple branches off of those branches. Coildnt be happier with it 😅

What is the name of the plant behind you on the shelf?

Honest question I’m new to plants but how do you keep your house from being a spider mating ground with so many plants? I have this one pothos and I put those like clay rocks on the top to prevent the white mites from everywhere but I feel like it’s still a breeding ground for these tiny green spiders I’ve found like 40 in my room lol. I want to get a bunch more plants but am scared of spiders lol😅

Henson doing interior design now?