Everyday plants

The forgiving ones. If you have killed a plant before, start here — every plant on this page tolerates a dim corner, a forgotten fortnight, or both. The snake plant and the ZZ are the two we hand to people who insist they cannot keep anything alive, and neither has ever come back to us. Most of these are low or medium light, which is what an Indian flat actually has rather than what plant care articles assume. Several are toxic to cats and dogs and are marked so on every listing, because that is the one fact a pet owner needs before anything else.

Everything we grow