Houseplant identification

[Shoeshelpplease]

Hi, I'm changing my ways from the buy it, water it and see if it lives - to actually taking care of my houseplants.

The problem is, I have no idea what my w siting plants are and want to make a plan for them before getting new ones.

Can anybody help me name the following plants?

1st is a bromeliad ofsome type, second is Swiss cheese plant, not sure about third.

Actually third looks like parlour palm.

www.ourhouseplants.com/plants/parlour-palm

Number 3.

Definitely read up about each plant. Some don’t like light but shade. The Swiss cheese plant will love light.

Patch and Crocus are great gardening/houseplant websites wit information on how to care for certain plants.

The first one is Aechmea fasciata which belongs to the family Bromeliacea. It should be watered inside the "urn", with rainwater, as these plants grow on trees not in the ground. All their nutrients are provided by insects and litter that collects in the urn, and the pot should only be kept just moist. When they flower, the urn will slowly die, but should form baby plants from the base, which can be detached and grown on.
The second one is a Philodendron, very easy to keep, but can grow quite large in time.
The Palm is Chamaedorea elegans, which is easy, but prone to brown leaf tips in a dry atmosphere.

Wow! Great work, thank you so much! I might even try a bit of propagation!

Any ideas on the next two? Slightly duller plants in my opinion.

The first is aspidistra eliator, to be treasured. If you are in the south, it can be put outside in the summer. Yours is variegated, so more unusual. They are not fond of being re-potted so wait until they are bursting from the pot, which your isn't. Do not overwater in winter.

I have hundreds of the buggers, all outside in Melbourne, in massive pots. Very unfashionable, and unreasonably expensive when you consider that all you have to do is chop the plant with a spade and stick it in the ground.

I think no 4 is a cordyline rather than an aspidistra - difficult to see in the photo, do the leaves come from stems rather than all individually from ground level? If a stem then it is a cordyline, there are loads of varieties.

The last one is dracaena marginata.