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Best Low-Light Plants for Dim Rooms and Shaded Corners

This guide helps you pick low-light houseplants that thrive in dim rooms, shows you how to assess your home's light…
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Senecio peregrinus

String of Dolphins

String of Dolphins is a trailing succulent grown for plump leaves that look like tiny leaping dolphins. The care goal is to keep…

Zone 10-12 outdoors; houseplant elsewhere

Senecio rowleyanus

String of Pearls: Trailing Succulent Houseplant

Zone 10–12 gardeners can grow String of Pearls outdoors all year, but most of us keep it as an indoor trailing succulent. Those…

Zone 10-12 outdoors, houseplant elsewhere

Peperomia prostrata

String of Turtles

String of Turtles (Peperomia prostrata) is the trailing succulent with leaves shaped like tiny turtle shells. Each leaf is a disc…

Outdoors in Zone 10-12; indoors anywhere Pet Safe

Tradescantia albiflora 'Nanouk'

Tradescantia Nanouk

Tradescantia Nanouk is the candy-colored trailing plant that grows absurdly fast — thick, succulent stems with pink, purple, and…

Outdoors in Zone 9-12; indoors anywhere