How to care for your Christmas houseplants
Incorporating houseplants into your Christmas décor adds a wonderful floral flair to your seasonal home and helps bring nature indoors during the colder and darker winter months. Houseplants make great gifts too and can be paired with a stylish pot for a present they’ll love.
Poinsettias, cyclamen, and kalanchoe are some of the more popular houseplants for the Christmas season, so we’ve put together our top tips to keep yours looking fresh over the festive season and beyond.
Poinsettia care
Poinsettias are one of the most popular Christmas houseplants thanks to their bright red bracts, synonymous with the festive season.
The best way to keep your poinsettia fresh is to make sure it has a consistent temperature away from drafts and cold and has plenty of natural light.
We’ve put together our top tips on how to look after your poinsettia here.
Caring for indoor cyclamen
Indoor cyclamen like to be in brightly lit spaces, but away from direct sunlight and avoiding direct heat sources such as radiators or fireplaces.
Cyclamen only need to be watered once the soil dries out, and you can test this with your finger. We recommend standing the plant in a shallow pool of water until the compost is moist, as direct watering can cause mildew to form on the leaves.
Kalanchoe care
Kalanchoe are flowering succulents, making them easier to care for and are the perfect beginner plant if you’re wanting to gift someone who is staring off their green-thumbed journey!
Kalanchoes like bright, indirect sunlight, so place them by a window for optimal growth. Succulents store water in their leaves so you can leave more time between watering – just keep checking the soil to ensure it’s not dried out.
Styling your Christmas houseplants
With their stunning bright and bold foliage, houseplants make the ideal addition to Christmas displays. Make your houseplants the star of the show by mixing and matching with pots that showcase your style (we’d recommend golds and reds for Christmas), create an impressive display with different houseplants layered in a specific area, or you could even include them in your Christmas tree decorations!