Peek Inside a Super Stylish, Plant-Filled SF Home
Houseplant dreams are just what you need for a cozy winter weekend. Here's a peek inside a plant-filled SF house to inspire your indoor garden plans.
Our lovely FGG friend and customer Anne Wintroub uses plants to complement the warm and artful style of her family's home. Plants and pots, like Calathea warscewiczii in royal blue, are chosen with care to pick up the color and whimsy of Anne's art and objects.
This calathea is a velvety tropical beauty with a rich purple color on the backs of its leaves. It doesn’t mind lower light and enjoys moist soil.
Anne loves a dramatic statement; if you have room for a gentle giant like Monstera deliciosa, then by all means go for it! Pilea cadierei makes a cute smaller accent at its foot. A tall anthurium brings bright green to a bookshelf, and Beaucarnea recurvata (ponytail palm) fits right in with Anne’s playful style.
As a houseplant, Monstera deliciosa (above, with pooch) grows quickly and can live for many years. It likes an occasional shower to keep its leaves clean.
Pilea cadierei (below) is easy to care for as long as the soil is allowed to drain and the room gets nice bright, indirect light. The silvery metallic pattern of the foliage offers a gentle sheen.
Plants and pots of wildly varied forms and textures can look gorgeous together if they fit within the general color palette of a room. Create displays in tiered sizes to allow each plant to shine.
Kalanchoe prolifera (above) is a large, fast-growing succulent that’s native to Madagascar. It can be grown indoors or out, and is a nice choice for a tree-like shape without taking up a ton of space in a tabletop display.
We love the strange but beautiful exposed root structure on this anthurium (above). Anthuriums tolerate moderate light and love humidity (perfect for a little bathroom with a window).
Small succulents in special pots make great accents in houseplant displays. Slow-growing haworthias will stay small and need very little maintenance. We have lots of varieties in stock!
Anne loves textiles, so plants with exquisitely patterned foliage appeal to her, like these beauties (from left to right): Maranta 'Lemon Lime,' Ficus altissima, Hoya 'Tricolor,' and Sansevieria zeylanica.
Maranta ‘Lemon Lime’ is a fast grower with a truly unique striped pattern on its foliage. Marantas are called “prayer plants” because of how their leaves tend to fold closed at dusk. So cool to watch this plant cycle through the day!
Ficus altissima can grow to 100 feet in its native Southeast Asia, but here it makes a great houseplant, with a lovely subtle sheen on its variegated leaf and a slender, smooth trunk.
This hoya beauty (Hoya ‘Tricolor') is a bit sensitive, but oh-so-worth-it for the gorgeous pink stems and pretty variegation on its waxy leaves. Be careful not to over-water, and make sure this plant gets enough bright light.
In the basement office, lower-light plants—Dracaena 'JC Compacta' and Dracaena 'Goldstar'—seem to almost draw the sun inside.
Philodendron ‘Hope’ grows indoors or out and likes a nice amount of sun. This plant doesn’t mind the wind, so it’s a great choice for a San Francisco apartment balcony (with a bit of shade).
Thanks for the inspiration, dear Anne!
Winter's the perfect time to refresh your interior garden, and we've stocked the nursery with lots of choices. Come see us at our SF garden store.
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