Recommend me a really really easy to look after houseplant

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I feel like we are lacking plants inside our house. I'm not sure why, when our garden is full of pretty plants all year round (courtesy of DH!). I'm hopeless with plants, I've managed to kill a cactus before 😬 I have an Orchid that I've had for about a year and it's not dead yet

I'd really like something else inside but I'm not sure what!

www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-dieffenbachia-dumb-cane/ this is nice...I have managed not to kill it..I got it from sainsbury

www.patchplants.com/gb/en/w/product-type/plants/environment/indoor/care-level/un-killable/

These guys have an unkillable section.

Spider plant. Requires absolutely no care at all, and produces babies. What's not to like? I have about a billion.

Spider plants are easy and you can grow more from the babies. Sansevira (possibly not the correct spelling) are foolproof. My DS has has one in his flat for 2 years and he could kill a plastic plant.

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Kokedamas. Almost any plant in a moss ball. You can hang them or pop them in a cute saucer. The moss ball keeps them watered for ages.

Snake plants are great as are monstera

Catcus plants - my two are still living and growing despite the odds.

Spider
Yucca
Cheese plants
Dragon tree
aspidistra So beloved of Dark, Smokey Victorian parlours as you couldn’t kill it.

Get a crocheted one!

Another vote for mother-in-law’s-tongue (sanseveria). Architectural, don’t mind shadier spots, barely need watering for half the year.

I love a nice spider plant. They're really easy and have stalks which produce babies. I even potted a baby up for ds1 when he left home.

Money trees are so easy to look after.... sunny spot, don't need a lot of water either!
Peace lilies for shadier areas are great too

Spider plant (but don't like them really)

Ficus are nice and have lovely leaves, quite easy to look after.

All those mentioned, plus Christmas cacti.

I misplaced one in a house move once. Thought it must have got left or thrown away by mistake. Nope, I found it over a year later hidden behind a box on a shelf. It had had no water or light that whole time and it was still alive. Slightly wrinkled, but otherwise fine. It perked up after a drink.

I still have it. I call it my zombie cactus.

spider plants are good. B&Q sell some nice house plants which last quite well and are not over priced - pick what you like.

I see folk recommending Mother in law's tongue - I HATE spiky plants, as I feel they look vicious - ! Likewise, I hate Peace Lilies. They lurk.

I like ones which gently drape, if you have a mantlepiece or shelf to pop them on.

Also, christmas cactus (it's a succulent not a true cactus) - once they get established, they will go on and on. I have one from my mum & dad which is over 50 years old. It's huge and amazing! however, do not get a real cactus - why would you want a plant which can hurt you?? never understood it.

Water them from underneath if you can (ie into the saucer, rather than in the soil) as that helps prevent them rotting.

We have orchids that have recently moved to the bathroom windowsill. The combination of the light and the steam seems to remind them of balmier conditions and they are all flourishing

Mother in-laws tongue

Peace Lily's are lovely and very easy, they droop a bit, water them and they perk up. And you get pretty white flowers every now and again.

I love plants but I forget to care for them and my OH seems to actively kill them whatever he tries to do.

My mom gave me a cutting of a pothos plant, told me to put it in a self watering pot and just keep the water reserve filled. That thing has turned into an actual jungle. Litterally the lowest effort to lush ratio I've ever seen.

Where would you like the plant to be? In a dark corridor, on a sunny south facing window ledge etc? Are you bad at remembering to water regularly?

Also, christmas cactus (it's a succulent not a true cactus), sorry, but it IS a true cactus! (Even if it doesn’t look like it). Plenty of suggestions, OP, so I won’t add to them.

I bought a plant from this website earlier in the year. The owner Tesni is really helpful if you need advice and you’d be supporting a small business.

botanicalbabeplants.com/

Thanks all! Some really good suggestions Will get googling!