Suitable plants for conservatory

[Cyanchicken]

Hi there - would anyone have any suggestions for plants that like a conservatory? It's north east facing so warm in summer but not roasting like a south facing conservatory and then quite cool in the winter? Would love some greenery but also plants that are quite easy to look after? Thanks in advance!

Perlagoniums of various types (including scented ones), hibiscus. Cyclamens in winter.

Pelargoniums, Christmas cacti. Jasmine - the white scented non-hardy one. Hyacinths and daffodils in spring.

would love to try a Bougainvillea if i had a conservatory!

Ooh thanks everyone - great suggestions there!!

Air plants & carnivorous plants generally do well in conservatories AFAIK.

Also, I'd get a proper aloe vera. I've got one on my windowsill (south facing). It doesn't really have enough space though, I bet it would really thrive in a nice light conservatory. I'm not generally good at houseplants but my AV was about 6cm tall when I bought it, & it's pushing 50cm tall now, about 3 years later.

Wow a north facing conservatory sounds like the only conservatory any one should have.

Mine denatures plants before your eyes. Literally turn black within a day!

The only thing I have found which can survive is waxy Ivy leaved pelargoniums.

@LemonSwan

Wow a north facing conservatory sounds like the only conservatory any one should have.

Mine denatures plants before your eyes. Literally turn black within a day!

The only thing I have found which can survive is waxy Ivy leaved pelargoniums.

The back of our house faces n/nw and we are planning on putting in a conservatory. We get a lot of sun but not as fierce as from the south. I too have been thinking about plants to grow in there. I have an aloe Vera my parents bought me for my birthday last year. It was a little straggly thing but it's about 30cm now at its tallest. I think it will like it in there as it already is happy on the n nw facing window sill in my kitchen.

We've got a south facing conservatory, actually a large porch to our back door. It's wonderful - from February it catches the sun and allows us to sit "outside", such a tonic in the midst of the usual greyness. We have a thermostatically operated fan, so that when the conservatory is over 20deg, warm air is wafted into the house,

In summer we just leave the door open. If we don't, the cats deliberately seek it out, then lie spread-eagled on the floor saying "oh, it's so hot in here, I can't bear it"

Mine is south facing. I have a lot of cacti and succulents which seem to cope with the extremes and to my surprise, standard bedding geraniums and spider plants seem to do ok if tucked out of the strongest burning sunlight. They seems to love the cold winters too and bloom all year round!

When it's hot, I hide the more delicate plants in an alcove or behind the dwarf wall so they get some shade even if the ambient temperature in the room is high. When someone is home (most of the time since Covid) we leave the doors all open when it's warm enough. If it's all shut up, it can easily reach 43C or more (London) so if we're out for more than a couple of hours on a really sunny day I do move some of the more delicate, favourite plants outside or elsewhere.

Yes, same experience as you with the pelargoniums. Except being in Yorkshire I don’t have to worry about the most burning sunlight.