Houseplants

The houseplant area at Fryers offers a wide range of both traditional and contemporary indoor plants and pots with which to enhance your home or  to present as that special gift. New plant stocks arrive every week to ensure that our houseplant area always offer a changing selection to our customers but we stock ever popular ranges such as orchids, citrus, foliage plants and cacti throughout most of the year.

 For customers wishing to give a plant as a gift we also offer a plant giftwrapping service to make your gift that extra bit special.

Before you buy a houseplant, it is important to think carefully about where in your house you want to put it.

The different rooms in your house have different degrees of light, temperature and humidity.

BRIGHT LIGHT
Foliage plants need bright light, especially variegated foliage plants. They are best near a window, but out of direct sunlight. Plants will need more water if they are in a sunnier position than they would in a shadier place.

THE WINDOW SILL
This is the best position for flowering plants under normal room conditions. Sometimes it will be necessary to protect them from strong sunshine in this position, but overall it provides the daylight needed to open flower buds and encourages new buds to form.

HUMID ATMOSPHERE
Ferns and palms are ideal plants for humid atmospheres. Flowering plants are not really suitable. Humid conditions are usually found in bathrooms.

SHADY POSITION
The best plants for a shady or semi-shady position are plain leaved foliage plants. Hallways and the back and sides of large rooms are usually reasonably shady areas of the house. Remember not to over water plants in shady positions and to let them dry out between each watering.

THE CONSERVATORY / SUNROOM
Citrus, Fushia, Oleander, Tree Ferns, Cordyline, Passiflora, Bourganvillia, Jasmine, Datura (Brugmansia) Pelargoniums, Hibiscus, Lantana, Olive, Plumbago, Bay, Cacti/Succulents.

THE KITCHEN
Cacti, Kalanchoe, Hedera, Philodendron scandens, Scindapsus, Rhoicissus, Tradescantia, St. Paulia.

THE LIVING ROOM
Anything flowering, including; Begonia, Kalanchoe, Chrysanthemum, St. Paulia.
These should be positioned on a window sill under normal conditions.
Foliage plants include; Monstera, Yucca, Dracaena, Palms, Croton, Schefflera.
Ficus family – variegated varieties should be placed nearer the window, with plain green varieties in shadier areas.

FOR THE BATHROOM
Ferns – especially Asparagus varieties, Palms, Bromeliads, Tradescantia, Ficus Benjamina, Anthurium, Indoor Bamboo, Philodendron scandens, Chlorophytam, Spathphylam, Syngonium.

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