When decorating your new apartment, it’s easy to add little touches like photos with family and friends, those cool bookends you found at the thrift store, or a pair of stylish throw pillows you just had to have. If you look around and you feel like you’re missing something, it’s a plant! In recent years, plants have become a staple of any apartment dweller’s space. Whether it’s a hardy succulent collection or a lush fiddle leaf fig tree, the name “plant person” has become a coveted title. For those of you who are new to honing your green thumb, we are here to help tell you about the best plants to buy for your apartment. 

The Lofts Apartments Offer Plenty of Space and Natural Light

Growing your plant collection is easy when you live in the Lofts of Columbia. Our properties have plenty of windows that bring beautiful, natural light into the space. Not only is natural light great for plants, but it is also important to our own health. If you ever need to repot your plants, every one of our apartments has beautiful hardwood and tiled floors that make sweeping up the soil a breeze. 

Do you have larger plants that need space to grow? The Lofts of Columbia has you covered!. Our apartments are spacious and can accommodate even the mightiest fiddle leaf fig. Are you a home chef who loves growing fresh herbs for your meals? You can easily grow plants like basil, mint, or rosemary in your window or on your counter with grow lights. 

Apartment Plants that Help Filter Out Pollutants

One of the best things about choosing to keep plants in your apartment is that many species will filter out pollutants, creating a healthier environment for you and your roommates. In fact, NASA has released a list of specific houseplants that best filter out pollutants. Bring one of these plants into your home for a healthier living environment. 

Houseplants that filter out pollutants

Dragon Tree 

Bamboo Palm 

Chinese Evergreen 

English Ivy 

Weeping Fig 

Snake Plant 

Peace Lily

Plants that love direct sunlight

Every Loft property offers plenty of light for those sun-loving houseplants like aloe or jade. If you love caring for outdoor plants as well, every unit at our Broadway and 308 Ninth properties features beautiful balconies where you can relax in the sun and grow your collection of plant babies. 

Sun-loving houseplants

Croton

Ponytail Palm

Barrel Cactus

Aloe Vera

Echeveria

Jade

Plants that prefer indirect sunlight

It might seem silly that a plant can get a sunburn, but it happens. When a plant is sunburnt, its leaves can change color or you may even see the leaves start to dry out in patches. When placing plants around your apartment, make sure that you are putting sun-fearing plants in shadier corners of the room.

Plants that don’t need much sun

Pothos

Prayer Plant

Bird’s Nest Fern

Monstera

Red Anthurium

Bromeliads

Decorating your Columbia, Mo apartment with plants

Not everyone has a green thumb. If you seem to kill every plant you come into contact with, that’s ok! There are plenty of fake plants out there that look real and require no maintenance whatsoever. 

No matter what kind of plants you like to keep, the Lofts in Columbia, Mo are the perfect apartments to grow your collection. Each unit has windows for sun-loving plants like Aloe Vera and happy corners for more shy plants like a Monstera. If you are interested in expanding your plant collection in a new apartment, reach out to the Lofts of Columbia to see what units we will have available in the upcoming rental season!