Plants for conservatory

[sparkle17]

Hi, this is not strictly for a gardening topic but thought I would ask here.
Looking for advice on best house plants for a conservatory. It is not a south facing conservatory but still gets nice and warm with most light in the morning. It does her very cold in the winter so I'm not sure which house plants would work best. Any advice. Thanks

Cacti, a lemon tree and crassula all grow well in my unheated conservatory. The lemon goes outside in the summer.

If you browse online or in a garden centre and see a plant you like, you can search for the plant on the RHS site and it will give you a hardiness/temperature rating so you can check if it's suitable:

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/trials-awards/award-of-garden-merit/rhs-hardiness-rating

Or you can search the conservatory section on their website for inspiration:

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/greenhouse

When you say 'very cold', is it at least frost free?

You may want to think not so much in terms of just 'house plants' as tender plants which can tolerate cold but not frost. I used to have a conservatory which had just a little background heating in winter, I can't remember now exactly what I had but it included hibiscus and perlagoniums. We think of the latter as disposable summer bedding but frost-free they can survive and grow large, I've seen some trained up trellises even.
Scented plants such as jasmine (not sure which type would be best) can be wonderful inside too, if you have the space.

I like the idea of a lemon tree. Thanks

It is frost free. I will look into Jasmine. Thanks

Daffodils and hyacinths in the depths of winter for the perfume and the colour when everything else is drab.

Apart from buying a lemon (or other citrus) tree, they're quite easy to grow from seed. Obviously they take quite a while to grow, but if you've got space it's a cheap way to add plants - if life gives you lemons, make lemon trees. The trick is to carefully remove the hard outer layer, plant in ericaceous compost and as far as possible (this applies to all citrus anyway) use rainwater. The main downside IME is they're very prone to scale insect, I've not found a good way to control this other than physically washing them off which is ok for a small plant but laborious for a large one.

I've got a miniature orange tree in my conservatory and it's doing very full full of fruit. Also succulents do well and cacti too x