10 Amazing Plants Right Now 🌱 TOP TIPS + Fun Facts

After a long period of plant burnout, I've spent this last month absolutely relishing my plants and appreciating them in a way I haven't felt in a long time. There's been so many exciting planty updates, and things that have been making me so happy, so I thought I'd compile a top 10 plants list and take you through all my favourites right now, along with some top tips to keep the plants happy, and some fun facts (cause you know how much I love a fun fact 🤓 !)
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[@nakikiish]

"Stay sexy plant lovers" gets me every time

[@debbielummus4637]

Hi Claire! I think your intuition is correct on the string of pearls. I live in Arizona. When you find them here in our plant shops they usually are potted with less soil, which allows the soil to dry out more easily as it is a succulent. Perhaps they potted them that way as an attractive way to show off the vines. It is common to even loop the vines up onto the top soil as they will root easily laying on the soil. Also, light from the top down really helps to keep the top full, preventing it from getting bald, or sparce on the top. Thank you so much for your videos! Love from the desert!❤🌵

[@nataliasanocka634]

😅😊😊😊😊

[@GreenWitch1]

I think so too. They have very shallow roots & prefer bright light, not a lot of humidity & prefer to be on the dryer side. I think those tall pots are just to show off the cascading tendrils. Definitely not necessary.

[@aub_k2819]

💚 your pallidiflorum! Please continue to talk about it all the time💚

[@isabellatracey9331]

I’m new to your channel and I’m obsessed with your collection my favourite one is your variegated alocasia frydek, it’s my dream plant😩 from BC Victoria Canada🇨🇦

[@hithere2468]

String of pearls is actually a crawling plant. It naturally wants to create mats. And as you pointed out, it is a succulent and doesn't want to stay wet. I assume that tall pots are used for showing off the plant's unusual characteristics. Marketing, in other words. It's definitely not for the health of the plant. I grow mine in a regular pot, but I've been thinking about taking some cuttings and trying them out in something long and shallow. Your instincts are absolutely correct. (No surprise there!) I hope your new string of pearls does well!

[@andrearea213]

Omg your fern leaf cactus is AMAZING. Such a wishlist plant!

[@rams2484]

Maybe you can find a cutting in your area. It grows sooo well as long as it has good light. And it branches out on it's own. Good luck! I love mine too 🌱

[@rebeccahenderson7761]

I love hoya's, wow they are so easy, once I started regularly watering them ;) I took the let them dry out advise in the internet (not here) a bit too far and lost a couple of independent stems, but they are flourishing now. Love from Vancouver Canada 🇨🇦

[@Ast27524]

Thank you so much for your work Claire 💚 I just love it so much. I am curious about knowing if having that many (beautiful 😍) plants at home, makes the temperature lower during summer.

[@jamieschriver4813]

Wow that Fern Leaf Cactus is really beautiful!!

[@squidneysart]

Hello from Minnesota in the United States ❤ LOVE YOUR HAIR!

[@snt9518]

I believe both the string of pearls as well as string of tears have recently been moved from Senecio to Curio so there is a reason they look so different from other Senecio plants :) As far as cold goes, I've kept mine in an unheated conservatory /greenhouse that goes down to 0°C so as long as they aren't too wet and in a dark space, they handle the cold like a champ! I agree about the pot though, the reason could be practicality since the trailing strands might easily get damaged once they get longer than the distance between the edge of the pot and a growing tray? I'm not calling myself an expert on these, but mine love pruning and I found rerooting in a desired pot size less of a hassle than repotting. I'd snip off the ends of the strands where roots have already started to grow, remove the lower few leaves and root in a succulent soil mix, Seramis or something similar. You could also just place it next to the pot you'd like to grow them in and wait for the strands to reach the top of the soil, they should start rooting if you keep that new soil slightly moist:) I haven't repotted mine from the 9 cm pot in a few years and they haven't complained yet 😅 they get fertilized and pruned regularly

[@zuzia7628]

Hoya Sarawak will be always my number one in your collection. My best in show is hoya carnosa compacta which gave me 20 cm of new growth this winter! Thank you for this video.

[@ingrida1121]

I grow all my anthuriums in lechuza pon with short moss poles, and they grow and size up very quickly, each new leaf is double in size from a previous one. They really like to root in to the moss poles and makes them easy to propagate.

[@liezldodkins2021]

So refreshing to get a “local” UK tuber that is entertaining to watch! ❤

[@Bigrosiesmum]

Hi Claire I just want to say how much I love your channel. I've always had lots of houseplants but discovering your videos has given me a completely new outlook on how to care for them. Not to mention buying a lot more!! 🥰

[@barbmckenzie7648]

I love your channel. I want to turn my house into a jungle!

[@tropicalsupnorth6658]

Your dragon fruit cactus ( if that is what it is) is in its juvenile stage. As it matures it gets much bigger and has only 3 “sides” instead of the current 4. Also it will have much less spines. A mature stem looks more like an orchid cactus. I have pressed/attached one of my mature stems against a pole, and it has grown upwards to about 1.5 meters. Then you need to ensure that at the top of the pole you have some sort of frame so that the new growth at the top can trail down. It’s these trailing stems that will flower and hopefully produce fruit. My pole with plant is in the middle of a wire frame (which I think is for tomatoes) and it’s new growth is starting to trail down. At the moment it is inside next to a south facing window and growing well. As soon as the weather warms up I will move it outside again where I keep it in full sun. Hopefully I might get some flowers and fruit this year, but our northern summers are quite short, but I can always hope!

[@wandashaw3551]

Hi Claire, I am so excited to hear that you have your plant loving mojo back!! It's a great feeling to rediscover it!

[@hedgewitch59]

I did a plant order just yesterday and passed over the Xanthosoma but after watching this, I've emailed the nursery to see if I can add it to my order. Thanks Claire. Yours is stunning. 😍

[@danielm.1441]

Drymonia is in the gesneriad family, which includes african violets/saintpaulias/streptocarpus and lipstick plants (aeschynanthus), but it's a sister genus to these, not within them; in fact streptocarpus & aeschynanthus are more closely related to each other (both being in the Didymocarpoideae subfamily) than to drymonia (in the Gesnerioideae subfamily).

[@The_Black_Truth]

ENJ💚YED Y💚UR 10 AMAZING PLANTS RIGHT N💚W!!!

[@latanyamckenzie277]

I just bought a Dragon Fruit cactus. It gets big. Mine is still small like yours. I have 5 of the plants you showed and I think they all are just "sexy". Greetings from KY, USA. I learned a lot from the comments too.

[@brandi_kh]

My favorite plant channel 💚 thank you for your sharing lovely content and your calm/positive personality Claire

[@nyctilia]

I love that you mentioned the strings of pearls because I recently got a string and propagated it on soil with the butterfly method and now I’m still unsure how to go about watering it. I even use a terracotta pot but I think that despite being there for a few weeks now the roots are maybe 2-3cm down at best (I let them be so can’t tell exactly) and I give them very little water and am sometimes still a little worried that it might not evaporate enough 😅 I’m more prone to overwatering and the humidity in my apartment is mostly around 55-70% so not ideal for succulents, too 🥲

[@lisaplanty]

Hi Claire, I agree with you about the pot that the string of pearls is in. I think it’s in a tall pot just for aesthetics, but it would definitely retain water too long.

[@morningstar8187]

You should repot your dragon fruit and thin it. They grow super fast. A couple feet a year even. They need a lot of light and more moisture than desert cacti. They are epiphytic. They grow on trees and rocks.

[@carolstuff]

Awesome faves; thanks for sharing Claire!

[@anissahill3358]

Hi Claire, I've just started getting into indoor plants and watching your videos recently. I enjoy learning from you. I really like Hoya plants at the moment. Do you know whether they enjoy being around other hoya plants or not fussed. I like to group them together as I think they like to be near each other. I live in australia 🇦🇺 and like hearing you accent. Anissa

[@MAD-kd5fs]

Thank U! Love So much tops ten!

[@jamescommon4286]

English Ivy isn't invasive in the UK. Invasive species tend to be those from abroad (Japanese Knotweed, Giant Hogweed and the like). It is fast-growing and dominant though, but a valuable part of our native flora - gardeners often wrongly describe it as such. Wonderful video, I must find myself one of those Caladiums 🙂

[@rebeccahenderson7761]

OMG, I've got Japanese Knotweed behind my house, right by my office - what a nightmare!

[@kuvattelija]

new to your channel here 👋🏻 i moved while ago and so many of my plants started slowly dying 😢 i was looking for tips, and your channel has helped & i enjoy your videos a lot 💚

[@courtneyc4]

My manjula is GORGEOUS. Grows so fast, the leaves are all different, some part are highly variegated and some have vibrant greens with less white. I LOVE the variety of the leaves. You’re so right about the white parts turning brown easily! I have mine sitting directly under a humidifier and it’s still turning brown on the ones with more white. Crazy bcs my snow queen is veryyy white and in front on my heater and doesn’t brown. It’s always the ones I’m attached to that give me the hardest time 🥲

[@SleeepyZzZ]

Thanks for the candle pot tip! I'm going to start specifically getting candles in clear glass!

[@OMM-kl1zu]

Absolutely love your fern leaf cactus. What a beauty!!!! The favourite in my collection at the moment is Calathea - Veitchiana. I recently moved it into Leca and five new leaves have emerged with the most amazing patterns. Love it!!! I love Pothos - Manjula. Sadly, it is very slow growing.

[@Howto_TV01]

love your collection🥰🥰🥰

[@amymarshall1829]

I agree that String of Pearls doesn't require a deep planter. I think they have a shallow root system. Mine was in a small, shallow planter and it grew like a weed. I put it in a deeper pot just because I liked the look of the pot, but I think I am going to change it soon. It needs a haircut, so I think I'm going to repot it into a shallow and wide pot and then add the cuttings to make it fuller. Regarding favorites, I recently got a Hoya Latifolia Sarawak after being inspired by yours. I love it so much!

[@alibauer73]

Handle jars are awesome as well as clear canisters. If you’re looking for something taller from the dollar store so cheap but yet so beautiful.

[@sbaroke]

That manjula pothos should be one third white - all that green is down to a lack of light. Love your channel, I watch it while doing my plant chores, it motivates me :)

[@rams2484]

I love the manjula photos too. mine is in a bit more light and the variegation seems to be a bit more white, but it has a veri nice shape and since I saw what it can do on a moss pole.... 🤩. thanx for the video. Hugs from Romania!🤗

[@amaiaormazabal1879]

I imagine the long pots for the string of pearls is to maximize their trailing, it would work to have the bottom half of the pot blocked off from the roots maybe?

[@warp871]

Gorgeous pallidiflorum 😊

[@Hep.F]

Third that! 😁 From Ontario Canada! ❤🇨🇦❤ 🐾🌿

[@rebeccahenderson7761]

Cheers from BC :)

[@shelleydewees1917]

Pallidiflorum!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I want one sooo bad!!

[@melanieklarofficial]

I keep my string of pearls in a cute girl face pot so it looks like she has long curly hair! I love it!

[@leehouten2345]

Thank you for sharing your lovely plants. I am very interested in your dragon fruit cactus. I bought a dragon fruit from the greengrocers and sowed the seeds. They are growing well and looking forward to watching them develop

[@kristiemowry3267]

I have a string of pearls in a unglazed ceramic pot hanging in a Southern window. It is around 3 ft long and doing very well. I water it when I think about it, maybe every 2 weeks or so. Maybe the tall pot is just to have some height for it to hang until it is sold.

[@Eddi.M.]

Yes, Drymonia is related to African Violets (Saintpaulia). Both are in the family Gesneriaceae.

[@Planted386]

Hi Claire! I loved the video! About your dragonfruit. I have quite a big one. It does grow rapidly! The spikes are similar to a boobie cactus spikes. Very sharp. Very proud pronounced. Hope that helps. Wishing you a wonderful week! Sending love from FL!

[@lindaedwards4632]

Hi Claire, I have a Manjula pothos too. It is such a slow growing plant ☹️ 🇨🇦

[@moniwoo]

Love your hair 😊❤

[@PureAussiegirl]

Hi from Australia 🇦🇺 New sub here. I bought the Alocasia sinuata from a bunnings which is a chain store here a month ago. It's summer here but we really haven't had a warm summer. It sits on a table with my other Alocasias. I haven't changed its soil yet because it is still growing well. It is in the process of putting out an 8th leaf. No cabinet. I don't think it's that delicate. I have 12 alocasias and 24 different prayer plants. Because they are on it some sort of soil. I'm now writing down when I have watered these 2 types. I would like to try leca but I just can't afford all the pots and leca required atm. So I'm very careful with my watering! Feel the same about the sinuata love that I'm saving a endangered plant❤

[@torquess454]

The first the caladium is one of my favs too, mines the same size, I’ve been lucky with it so far, the jungle cactus is on my grail list too, hoping the come around our area of Canada this year! Got myself a hanging orchid cactus last year, I need to round out my collection!! What’s your watering schedule on it like?

[@jpgypsyxo]

I feel like they must put the sop in a tower pot so that they can grow longer with minimal damage as a table or shelf plant? I honestly think growing them in hanging pots are the best because those tower pots are just way too deep. ❤❤

[@danielm.1441]

I would be sceptical about that pothos being the result of hybridisation - golden pothos varieties (so epipremnum aureum) are genetically 'broken' - the genes required to produce blooms are defective, so ordinarily they will _never_ bloom even if given ideal conditions. Whether they can be induced into blooming (with some hormonal treatments or similar) I'm unsure.

[@turogers13]

Hi, first time watching. I did have the first plant. Note the word "Did".

[@melanieklarofficial]

I just got a pallidoflorum!

[@fluwelenvoetjes]

💚💚💚

[@FanofFrogs]

New here! How do you care for your Philodendron Gigas? Substrate? Recommendations?

[@tubegoob1]

Your Manjula Pothos leaves can grow really big, if you put it on a moss pole. See Sydney Plant Guy's videos. I love Manjulas - I have two! I also love small-leaf Hoyas -- I have over 20 different ones. That Anthurium Pallidiflorum is on my wishlist.

[@rosewagner4018]

Love all of your favs! I ordered a pallidiforum and should get my plant mail today! Yay! I also have a caladiym like yours. I may put it into semi hydro, they don’t like to go dry. 💚🪴💚

[@tddas8008]

👋from 🇺🇦Kiev

[@mwatson4970]

I love caladium although I think they works so better if I had an outdoor area for them. Never liked that one you have though as it feels too diffenbachia-like. But love the video and variety!

[@garden91channel]

Beautyfull❤😊

[@isabelpuig8332]

The Amydrium Silver

[@melaniegreaves3571]

Did you know about Deans Garden Centre has been taken over by a large chain of Garden Centres, do you think it will change with their wonderful house plants? 😢

[@user-lm9jg4bb8g]

String of pearls prob come in tall pots like that so they have room to overflow for sales purposes. I understand shallow roots so better in shallow pots???

[@ewhat10]

I had a mature dragon fruit. Its spikes were short and hard.... Not like a bunny ear cactus. I recently sold mine though. I just didn't have good enough lighting for it in the winter and it was growing weird. They do grow FAST, good light or not. I'm SUPER into hoyas right now. While super common, I think my Rosita is currently my favorite. I also just got a Hoya Chicken Farm that I can't stop staring at. It's absolutely gorgeous, even if it still only has one leaf :) My favorite non-Hoya... Probably my Syngonium Chiapense. Others that I love are my philodendron Rio and my scindapsus treubii moonlight.

[@pennyred6195]

Heard a think on Sydney plant guys channel today re tree fern fibre, he or they, a guy called Tim from touching_the_aroid said it creates nutrient depletion, resulting in yellowing leaves. I will see if I can find title of the video.. OK Im back. I was wrong, its coco fibre thats bad, (which I use mixed in, not on ots own) SPG vid interview with Tim says it causes "nutrient lock out" being a calcium and magnesium deficency. "A Cal-mag" deficiency abbreviated. Title of video, "an interview with the grow vertical Greenhouse" by Sydney Plant Guy

[@melanieg.9092]

Oh! That's interesting to know 😮 I just built some Coco coir moss type poles to save on sphagnum...

[@morningstar8187]

The only cacti that have glochids are in the opuntia family aka the prickly pear family. Dragon fruit do not have glochids. Cacti are divided into four or five subfamilies, depending on the source: Cactoideae, Opuntioideae, Maihuenioideae, Pereskioideae. Most of what we think of as cacti are part of the Cacoideae subfamily. All the columnar cacti, Mammillaria, Astrophytum, epiphytic cacti, etc. Maihueniodieae and Pereskiodeae are uncommon as houseplants unless you’re a collector. They look nothing like what you think of as cactus. The remaining one, Opuntiodeae, are the prickly pear family. They also include things like Tephrocactus. They are the ones that have glochids in addition to spines.

[@pjuk]

Hi. Do you happen to know if the opuntia vulgaris has them, I recently got one of those, doesnt seem to have in the same way as the bunny ears one I had previously, seems to just have spines.

[@morningstar8187]

@@pjuk They do, but far fewer than Opuntia microdasys.

[@pjuk]

@@morningstar8187 Thank you 😃

[@melanieg.9092]

Thank you for this summary!

[@karinkuhlemann5359]

I was surprised to get spiked by my newly acquired Tephrocactus while repotting them. They look bare...! Your explanation makes sense.

[@sebnoir]

hello Claire do you still have you pendent Anthurium ? I wonder what it look now

[@cupofjae]

I had a bunny ears cactus and it was so cute until it tipped over and I had to pick it up and it pricked my thumb. Oh. My. God. It wasn't insanely painful but it was SO ANNOYING to pick out all the little spines. It didn't last long in my collection lol.

[@violetgrimm4]

My Caladium lindenii died a death I couldn't make it happy no matter what I did. Very sad they are majestic when healthy!

[@cynd-al]

i think the caladium is actually xanthosoma but i don’t know for sure

[@cynd-al]

ignore me i think it used to be xanthasoma and was reclassified to caladium

[@pjuk]

Oh no don't even mention those glochids! When I started getting into cactus and succulents I saw a couple bunny ears types, one with orange one with yellow dots and brought them home. Few weeks later decided to repot, despite using cardboard to hold them for days after I had those horrible things in my hands jabbing me with everything I touched. I had to keep duck taping my hands and ripping it off, drove me crazy. I located them in a faraway corner then never went near them, even watering from a distance. After a few months I thought what is the point and threw them away, armed with gloves, bin bag, eye goggles etc. Felt kinda bad but they're evil. Never again!

[@caseycausey1186]

I think you actually have a dog tail cactus. I believe a dragon fruit cactus is much more substantial.

[@annielitton4622]

I read that the Ric Rac Cactus is the exact same plant as the Zig Zag, Fishbone, Moon Cactus, and Queen of the Night. They are all Rhipsalis Cactus plants of the Epiphyllum group and not a Fern and they are not cousins. All of the names are just called the Ric Rac.

[@Kaylee_4740]

26:10 I don’t think it’s a dragon fruit 🤔

[@captainlovebug]

Claire on Monther Nature in regards to Caladium: "Seasons? I don't know her" :D I love my manjula as well! I have one growing in my cabinet and my most beautiful one is growing hydroponically in my fish tank :) (Along with my Obliqua) and they are THRIVING! My Shimp, Pygmy Cory's, and Panda Loach all love the roots in the water. Makes such an amazing feature in my tank as well as keeps the nitrates down and my aquarium super happy :D If you ever get the itch to set up an aquascaped planted aquarium let me know! I spent four years researching how to set one up. I achieved a zero water change environment with my 5 gallon and have so far achieved the same in my 10 gallon. I got a Pallidiflorum last year and it just put out a leaf that is three inches long! I got it as a baby. Stay sexy plant lovers!

[@DieDieEla]

I don't think that just because you see something more often there is always a good reason. Plants are often sold with this strange net around the roots and there is definitely no good reason for that. So trust your gut feeling

[@rochellehetzell8461]

Do you plan on anymore Emma/claire Chanel content

[@Meluuu0407]

Second 😂

[@ebryan7578]

Promo sm

[@martinav4086]

Unpopular opinion, but critically endangered plants will unlikely become less endangered if we have them in our homes. The more people will want them, the more the black market with these plants will flourish and will be taken from their natural habitat just to saturate the market...

[@DiaryOfDreamyBlooms]

Hi from MA, US 🫶🏼