Add natural beauty to your home or office with air plants! These indoor plants don't need soil to grow, so they can flourish in many different environments. Additionally, they require only a moderate amount of light and only need watering about once a week, making them the lowest-maintenance plants available! What separates these unique plants from other plants are their leaves, which have adapted to absorb water and nutrients from the air. This allows air plants to thrive when they are suspended in the air or grown atop driftwood and rocks. Air plants are perfect for terrariums, cages, and glass containers with holes or gaps that allow for plenty of air flow. There are a myriad of other creative ways to display air plants; the possibilities are limited only by your imagination! Air plants look especially beautiful when set atop river stones, natural-colored gravel, or driftwood. Air plants make excellent gifts for house-warming or other occasions. They are also work wonderfully as desktop decorations for your office or home desk. We recommend keeping air plants in an area where they receive a moderate amount of light. Indirect sunlight and artificial home/office lighting are appropriate for these plants. It's generally safe to keep air plants in direct sunlight for a short period of time each day, but we recommend misting them with water every 2 hours or so to keep them from drying out. The optimal way to water air plants is to soak them in water for 2 hours once per week. If you find the leaves of your air plants are becoming soft or pale in color, this means the plant is too dry, and you should try misting or watering them more often. Air plants come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, though most species primarily feature green leaves. Many of our air plants also exhibit stunning pink blooms. Each air plant ranges from 2 to 5 inches in size. The plants you receive may or may not already have blooms.
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#1 Company for Air Plants!
Plants for Pets is the only company I will order air plants from off Amazon. I’ve had consistently positive experiences with them (Plus several negative ones with other companies on here). As usual, all 6 of the plants arrived in perfect condition! They threw in an extra one as well. (So kind!) Care was taken to ensure that they were not damaged during the shipping process.Helpful instructions on how to acclimate the plants to their new environment upon arrival were enclosed in the package, as well as ongoing care, accompanied by details on how to customize the routine based upon your your specific climate conditions.Note: There’s no excessive material waste in the package. Everything is recyclable! No nasty styrofoam or plastic!I received a beautiful variety of 5 different types of plants. (5 different species with 2 being the same, for 7 plants total, including the freebie.) This company comes across as being truly enthusiastic and caring about air plants!UPDATE: In the past, I’ve killed a lot of air plants. Growing them in a hot, dry climate (I live in the Phoenix metropolitan area) isn’t intuitive, but after much trial-and-error, coupled with research, I’ve finally got the hang of it. Here’s a summary of what I’ve learned......Watering: Misting doesn’t cut it for me. Most of the air plants I’ve lost from rot involved misting, so I’ve completely stopped doing it. Now I exclusively soak them in distilled water. (Up to 3 times/week during the summer, 1-2 times/week during the winter.) I also soak them for at least 1-2 hours, but discovered that they can handle being soaked longer than this, even overnight, as long as they’re totally dried after removal. (I learned this after an air plant somehow “leaped” off a shelf and happened to land into a vase that was filled with distilled water. I discovered it the next morning and was very concerned! After letting it dry, I noticed that it looked really healthy, so I no longer worry about soaking them too long.)Drying: It’s essential to ensure that air plants are allowed to dry completely after being soaked (or misted, if that’s the method that works best for you). This is especially important if you keep them in a glass terrarium enclosure. I’ve found that drying them upside or at an angle better ensures that moisture doesn’t get trapped anywhere.Dry Placement: I’ve lost several air plants in the past by placing them on live moss and other areas that have moisture. For example, I had one that was doing great, hanging out on a large leaf of another plant. One day, it fell off and a housemate, attempting to be helpful, placed it on the moist soil of a neighboring Caladium. This instigated a rotting process that I was never able to get under control. After this happened, I only keep them in places where there’s zero chances of them getting prolonged exposure to a moist surface.Light: I disagree that these are “low light tolerant plants,” at least for most species. I now have them directly in front of an East facing window. Had I done this immediately after arrival, it probably would have put them in shock and killed them. They can’t go from being in a dark package for several days during shipping and directly into a bright area. I acclimated them gradually by placing them several feet away from the window and reducing the distance every week. This allows them bright morning light, with some protection from the UV blocking features of the glass, so the sun is intense but not to the point of frying them. (If your windows don’t have such features, they may need to be kept farther back.) They also receive sun in the afternoon, but it’s not at such a high intensity as they would be in front of a West or South facing window.Humidity: One of the major mistakes I made with previous air plants was failing to understand that they need humidity to thrive. (Again, some species don’t, but these certainly do.) In Phoenix, the humidity level is often under 25%, so while I’ve managed to keep some alive without supplemental humidity, it always limited their ability to thrive. Increasing the humidity also seems to enable them to better tolerate the brighter light. I have my Calathea plants (they absolutely require high humidity) by the same East facing window, so there’s a humidifier running constantly now, and the humidity is mostly maintained over 60% in this area. The condition of the air plants have dramatically improved since I started doing this.
N**L
Good quality, but expect some DOA
Overall good quality, but do except some to be DOA. I ordered 24 piece and lost about 4-6 when I opened the box. I've purchased plants from them before, but never dealt with air plants from an online store. The cost itself for the bundle is well worth it even if you loose a min up to 6 depending on the amount you order. You would pay about $5 a piece elsewhere.
H**M
Affordable Way to Get Multiple Air Plants (But They Are Harder to Take Care Of Than I Realized)
Air plants look cool, tout low maintenance, and can be used in a variety of places that regular plants cannot. I'm not a gardener, but I got my "community college green thumb" degree from watching my parents over the years. Although I love my plants, I hated how often I had to water them, maintain the pots, etc. I stumbled across an air plant display kit while shopping for my best friend's birthday. We were doing a plant project together and she said she really liked them. So I ended up buying her several (complete with a glass globes) for her birthday. I thought it was cool looking, so I bought myself one. The instructions on these say just to spritz them once a week. This is where I learned this is FALSE and many of our air plants DIED.Sad that the air plants died, I went back to Lowes to buy the individually packaged ones. They are $4.98 a pop. I probably spent another $25 that day. Again, several died a few weeks later and I couldn't figure out why. I did some research and I found that the instructions that we were following is opposite of expert air plant blogs. Any in-depth air plant guide will say the spritz should be 1-2 times a week AND do the occasional soak (roughly 1-2 times a week). With this newfound knowledge, I wanted to replace the again dead air plants with new ones, but not spend $4.98 each at Lowes. Plus I wanted a variety.I came across this seller and they said you'd get 12 different types of air plants for $14.21! What a bargain! I placed my order and upon delivery, I did get 12. One was already dead (black) but the other 11 ranged in various types and sizes. Most of them were the "fluffy/spiky" kind but I did get some cooler ones I've never seen before. One looks like a giant sea urchin. Some didn't look too hot but others looked fresh.After setting these air plants where I wanted them to go, I performed 1-2 spritzes + soak every week and it has caused my air plants to FLOURISH. They are growing like crazy and I couldn't be happier. I will say though, knowing what I know, I'm kind of disappointed in the air plants. They require a lot more work than regular potted plants. With a regular potted plant, you can fertilize and just water the pot. Easy steps. The air plants, with the 1-2 spritz/soak method take a while. The soak takes an hour and then you have to let it dry for a few more hours. I could probably get away with soaking it less, but I've already burned through almost $100 on these air plants, so I'm not about to let these die on me. If I could start over though, I'd probably not buy them because it is hard work.
T**R
Great variety- updated review
I was excited to see the variety that I received. It did not come with directions on how to care for the plants but it’s easy enough to look up. I ordered 12 plants and I only received 11. I reached out to the seller via the email included in the package and no response. Delivery was faster than expected..Update- I contacted the seller who apologized for the wrong number of plants and said they would send one in the mail. I was extremely surprised to receive a whole new set of 12 plants in the mail today! Great customer service and variety of plants! Order from this seller and you will not be disappointed!
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