Inspiration: Dramatic Indoor Plants Melbourne

We were inspired on our lunch break today by indoor hanging plants in the latest issue of Real Living magazine. They bring back memories of grandma’s porch and 80’s kitchens. In our search for hanging plants, we came across some great examples of dramatic indoor plants. More below.

The impact of these lies in the scale, oversized plants indoors are unexpected. Wonder how big the avocado seed will grow…

[ Images care of midcentruyjo ]

Comments (14)

beautiful, but i was hoping for some types and names.

i agree, names, types etc be cool

Seerakat, I'm with you but the "editors" are paid by the post. Substance behind the thin veneer of style worship is too much to ask for on this site.

Is photo #3 a fig tree? It looks like it might be a bit messy. A few years ago, I had a large ficus that dripped sap on my freshly refinished wood floors. I would hate to see what sap might do to upholstery...

Photo #3 against the blue wall is a cutting of a horse chestnut.

hi i think that #3 is a branch cutting from a horse chestnut tree since the cutting on the coffee table apears to be a maple... just guessing tho

My grandmother in Mexico had a tree growing right in the middle of her house. The house was basically one large room with super high ceilings, and for some reason when they built it, they decided to leave an opening in the ground for a seedling. By the time I was a toddler it reached well above my head, and the last time i was there at 17, it was a full grown tree that was 2/3rs to the ceiling. It was beautiful, and it doubled as a christmas tree.

The tree in the upper left photo is some kind of ficus.

Jose - that sounds really cool!

Chris - your Dr. Seuss tree is a dracena marginata. It's funny, because that's not the first time I've heard of the plant called a Dr. Seuss tree.

I've never had any type of ficus drip. The big ones in our atrium at work lose a leaf occasionally, though.

This is a bad pic of a pothos vine in my bedroom. It has grown several feet since this picture was taken last winter. It's happy enough here that it has started to backbud (as you can see, it usually likes to grow in single, straight stems). I cut the longest shoots back by a few feet (which is a small matter for this plant) so that it can concentrate the growth to new shoots on the top and become bushier instead of just longer. I call it Rapunzel.

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Ah, memories of spider plants in macrame hangers....

:) whytephoenix, it would be a dr. seuss tree because of the lorax - a truffala tree!