Potted palms and Queenslanders are a classicly handsome pair. You cannot go wrong with a verandah and a palm. Either fork out 20 clams at your local nursery for a living tree or, in the dead of night, snip off some fronds from your neighbour's garden. I'll leave the details up to you.
India Hicks is all over it, of course.
Ivy, Sydney, below.
Name another plant that can bend itself around in a circle like this.
If you can't garden, never fear, the succulents are here. I'm telling you, you cannot kill these things. They are survivors. They're also tres pretty.
Succulents come in all shapes and colours, you can plant them in just about anything, they only need watering every so often, and they're cheap to buy. What's not to love?
Plus, your husband will just love spending one of his rare and precious mornings off drilling holes in a fragile old teacup.
Indoor plants give you the perfect opportunity to break out your best macrame. Notice who has been entrusted to hang in these?
Orchids are beautiful indoors, and although I don't have much first-hand experience with them, I'm told they're not as high maintenance as we're led to believe.
Indoor plants can go in and out of fashion. Monsteria leaves and fiddlewood figs are very much loved at the moment. Cycads, stretlitzias (bird of paradise plants), staghorns and anything topiaried, will always be in style.
See, just a few fronds can make the world of difference.
I think ivy deserves a mention here too.
Herbs are pretty and useful, a double whammy.
You know, you don't have to limit the greenery to actual plants.
So if you can't quite manage something like this....
....or even this....
....maybe something like this will make a good start....
