Fashion Challenge: The new role of indoor plants in the interior

2023 broke the scale of values ​​of a fashionable interior. Now – suddenly! – it is announced that the house without greenery is the last century, that it is old and inexpressive. Suddenly it turned out that the interior design without plants looks unfinished and faceless.

It lacks fireworks of colors, grooming, originality, it looks naked and uninhabited. Everything is known in comparison: indeed, several living green plants in the interior of the apartment so transform the view of the room that they are removed – and a vacuum is formed that can not be filled even with very beautiful things.

Some of this news inspired the campaign in flower shops, others plunged into panic – after all, there are people in whose hands even a cactus wilts. At once we will calm: acceptable variants of registration will be for all, in an extreme case it is possible to buy artificial plants for an interior.

But where to start? Certainly not with the purchase of flowers!

Until then, you will:

• to find out if vegetation in the house is useful;
• determine in which corners of the apartment lacks green zones and what role they can play in zoning and visual transformation of space;

• To estimate, whether it is impossible to combine beautiful with useful – with edible, for example;
• to decide in which frame the living accessories will appear – to get acquainted with the types of pots, pots, shelves, jardinieres, florariums;
• recover from the shock, discovering what unusual options for landscaping interior design designers (oh, believe me, they have nothing to do with geraniums on the window);

• breathe a sigh of relief, learning about the existence of closed automated life support systems for plants in the interior;
• grab for the heart (or for the purse) figuring out how many such systems are worth;
• assess the degree of illumination, humidity, temperature;
• to develop a project for placing plants in the interior of the house;
• and only after that to choose for the interior of the plants themselves – with the help of a designer or a flower seller, given the architectural style and own propensity (or not inclination) for floriculture.

Calms down that in such a serious algorithm there is a joke. In the end, even accidentally tucked flowers, geraniums or ficus, will make into the design the forgotten kindness of old good traditions and will be regarded as aesthetics aesthetics. But we want more?

So, set aside fears – and forward, into the study of the green world of modern design!

Myths about houseplants

Superstitions about indoor flowers, chasing away luck, are contradictory, but arguing with them is a thankless task. True or not, but behind the ivy, the bad reputation of the male persecutor has been fixed. It is believed that a lonely lady oppresses ivy to bring a man into the house and even more so to keep him. At the same time, in the narrow circles of sorcerers and fortune tellers, the ability of ivy to extinguish energy emissions – both good and bad – is noted. Conclusion: after the scandalous parting with the lover, ivy is just the pill that will help to forget, forgive and calm down.

By the way, following the ivy, its specific properties began to be attributed to other climbing plants in the residential building. Somehow it is a pity to abandon such a decorative category of indoor flowers because of unsubstantiated accusations, especially since ivy is clearly in a trend.

Virtually for no reason the orchid suffers – it was attributed to the suffocating effect due to the mere species of roots that supposedly entangle the sleeper.

All the arguments about the plants that emit carbon dioxide at night are pure truth. However, in the bedroom, their presence is critical only if the room is hermetically sealed, not ventilated. Honestly, in such conditions and without flowers it will be stuffy.

More serious seems the version that strongly smelling flowers interfere with night rest. Indeed, from a stupefying aroma, the head may get rancid during the day, although all this is very individual.

For allergy sufferers, any contact with pollen is undesirable, it is better for them to choose indoor flowers with decorative leaves. However, the soil is dangerous, spreading spores of mushrooms. This does not mean that you will have to abandon the home greenhouse: you can, for example, cultivate green lawns on a hydroponic artificial irrigation system or use artificial flowers that skillfully mimic natural ones.

A really serious threat is conventionally poisonous plants, they should be used with great care. To the poisonous greenery is: Aglaonema, Anthurium, Alocasia, Croton, Monstera, Euphorbia, Oleander, Pachipodium, Fatsia, Diffenbachia – their photos should be carefully studied and remembered.

Surprisingly, almost all of them turned out to be designers’ favorites in 2023 – these plants are so picturesque! Do not give up this beauty? In extreme cases, they can be placed in the upper tier of gardening – it’s safer.

It remains to add that with very few exceptions, plants in the interior of a residential house play the role of an island of nature that refreshes and moistens the air, soothes, pleases the eye.

The triumphant return of the ficus – a new botany in the interior

How did it happen that in 2023 designers turned to houseplants? This became a logical continuation of the idea of ​​an ecological phytodesign of the interior, which the Japanese and Scandinavians never changed. The need for natural materials, natural forms and islets of nature inevitably resulted in interest in domestic plants and the search for their new role in the design of the house.

The revolutionary direction was called “new botany.” It penetrated into the interior of all existing styles, from urban to country, from minimalism to classics.

The mission of indoor plants is to harmonize the design of the house and bring a new melody into it.

How much are needed indoor plants in the interior of an apartment decorated in a certain style, and which of them should be preferred?

Fashionable aesthetics of the stone jungle – the combination of loft and living plants

What does the ficus do in the interior of the loft? No, he does not poke holes in the wall!

A large plant in an urban interior performs the same role as a leather red sofa or a picture in a gilded frame – working “in contrast”, it emphasizes the picturesque imperfections of industrial textures.

Well-groomed greens on the background of concrete or brickwork enhances the effect of shocking. For loft apartments, plants are selected for bulk, with expressive large leaves, in stone pots or metal containers adapted for them (photo).

The cheeky welcome of the loft gardening is an imitation of an industrial greenhouse. Industrial lattice glazing, irrigation pipes and juicy greens in a closed volume unexpectedly develop ideas of style.

Plants in flasks, transparent balls, in glass jars – these fashion florariums seem to be created to create local green accents in the urban interior.

Warm to cold: indoor flowers in the interior hi-tech

How can greenhouses look on the space station? Probably the same as the plants in the design projects of apartments in the style of high-tech.

First of all, these are lawns, horizontal and vertical. By the way, a vertical lawn is a complex engineering structure with an automatic watering system, which conceptually fully complies with the principles of high-tech style.

Floraria, miniature and voluminous, are semi-enclosed ecosystems with microclimate. They are picturesque and perfectly in harmony with the glossy surfaces of the interior.

Element vintazhnosti – ceiling plants, growing “upside down”. This is something that surprises every day, which is impossible to get used to. But it is in hi-tech that greenery of the interior seems quite logical.

Live flowers in the scenery ardeco

Among the styles that have historical and ethnic roots, ardeco stands out for its artificiality. All the design techniques are nothing more than an imitation of the classical style, sometimes with elements of Empire and Antiquity, but what a sophisticated and strict stylization! Plants have always been used in this interior, but were selected very carefully. Preference is given to the decorative form of the leaves and the strict silhouette graphics.

Heroes of eco-design – all directions of country style

What gave the trendy trend of the “new botany” to the country style, in which flowers and green plants were traditionally present? First of all, he raised the status of the country direction. Secondly, the development of a new wave presented interior designers with fresh ideas and magnificent floral accessories – racks, shelves, jardiniere, pots.

It could be with a little exaggeration to say: how many countries, so many directions of country style. Consider the techniques of using indoor flowers and plants in the interior of urban apartments with rural design.

Flowers and aromas of Provence

In the French provincial style of Provence, blooming cultures lead:

• roses;
• violets;
• geranium;
• oleander;
• bulbous – tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, crocuses;
• mini-lawns in pots of cereals, lavender, spicy herbs.
• as well as the evergreen laurel, ficus, etc.

The peculiarity of Provence is the adaptation of the most diverse capacities as flower pots and ingenuity in their artisan decoration. They paint, age, cover with craquelure and patina.

An important element is the abundance of shelves, jardinieres, floors and improvised pedestals for plants. In Provence, it is customary to put flower pots on a window sill, a kitchen sink or a dining table.

American Country

Less recently, new landscaping ideas have touched American countryside, this style is incredibly conservative. Several wooden or ceramic pots with plants are more than enough to revive the farm interior.

Japanese mini-gardens

In the tradition of the Japanese interior – loving plants, stones, wood. All three elements are present in living plant compositions in the Japanese style.

Plants in the Japanese interior are never presented without a frame. A wooden stand, clay or wooden pots, stones and sand covering the ground, a lone bonsai tree or a plant composition – all this forms a single whole.

Mediterranean style: a blooming shore

Sunny Mediterranean interior with elements of rugged antiquity is filled with a special charm, when it settles southern flowers and plants – indoor cypresses, papyrus, oleander, ivy, roses, etc.

In the decoration of pots, pottery, stone, mosaic, wood, metal, fabrics and ropes are used.

Scandinavian line cleanliness

In the Scandinavian interior, indoor plants carry the same load as large designer accessories: they give the minimalism the charm of elitism. Each plant is “served” so that it is in the center of attention.

What new enriched this style of legislators in the field of design? In the interior came the lawn. They used to be used in the Scandinavian style, but point-wise. Now the lawn is given a wall, podium, some other significant space. In the continuous gardening use of cereals, moss, ampel plants and low leafy.

It was in the Scandinavian style that vertical hanging gardens began to be used for the first time. They are framed in a frame, like a picture. Create a beautiful carpet of different stems and leaves. Build in niches. Replace them piers.

Effectively and organically complement the decor of the florariums – ingenious mini-greenhouses for dwarf plants.

An extravagant way of plant presentation is ampel flowers hanging from the ceiling. And quite a surreal example of phytodesign interior – inverted pots with growing down stems.

A little bit of flower affectation in a she-chic

Ladies’ shoe-chic never sought to decorate themselves with flower pots, replacing the living decor with lace and painting. Now this interior is decorated with roses, ivy, dracaena, oleander, etc. In the dusty old interior, flowering plants look particularly romantic.

Classic and fitodizayn interior: the embodiment of decency

The classic interior and its lightweight version – neoclassicism – never really needed the support of the vegetable decor. Now the actual classic design involves creating a green island in the room from several plants in jardiniere, shelves or in outdoor pots.

The hallway can meet guests with a luxurious palm tree in tubs, and in the living room, behind the back of the sofa unfolds an unusual carpet – a vertical panel of flowering and deciduous plants. The new face of the classic interior is determined by lively green accents.

Maximalism in all or the Renaissance of genuine luxury

The modern interior of apartments, “brought up” in ascetic minimalism, missed the luxury. This is noticeable in many trends – the return of velvet, Damascus ornament and lacquer polish expensive furniture, according to the juicy terracotta scale that replaced the Marsala, in relation to houseplants, which from episodic decor became a powerful, conceptual architectural form.

Green areas in the apartment are designed in a complex. Thinking about their role in zoning, checked for compliance with lighting and humidity, planned care. They have become bigger, more creative, more diverse.

However, a good modern interior is inherent in some irony, lack of narcissism. Example? Yes, here it is, in front of you – a little mischief in the kitchen, and not only.

I raised you – I’ll eat you: about a beautiful and tasty phytodesign

It turns out that fashion is not alien to anything human. She blessed – otherwise you will not say – the creation of garden greenhouses, the placement of edible indoor plants in the interior of the city house. Moreover, for many, this occupation has become an incredibly contagious hobby, and amateur designers are in the process of searching for new “chips”.

First of all, let’s look at the kitchen and the dining room. All kinds of cans, buckets, as well as quite solid pots (depending on the interior design style) are densely planted with parsley, cress-salad, arugula, mustard, basil and other spicy greens. No one wants to bring it to the state of biological ripeness. Grown up – cut off – planted a new one.

If opportunities permit, it is possible to arrange a phytopanno over the dining area.

Another option for selecting plants is “guests from the dacha”. At the end of the summer season, bushes of dwarf tomatoes, peppers (especially the chilli looks pretty) move into the kitchen. Of course, they can be grown immediately in the pots, bypassing the vegetable patches.

Resourceful housewives found out that pots of lettuce and Peking cabbage are very well established in pots – the remains of greenery from the supermarket. Practical, tasty, beautiful! And what is especially nice – now it’s fashionable!

A tree and shrubs with delicious fruit can be found in the living rooms. Among the most popular – lemon, pomegranate, figs, dwarf mandarin, avocado. Actually, experiments with the planting of exotic plants from the bones continue and soon they can be called room.

Living hedges from plants in the interior

Composition in pots

Indoor flowers are a new tool for zoning the room. The simplest and most effective separation of functional zones is to install large flowerpots or flower stands between them. For this purpose, pots and wheels on wheels are ideal.

In this way, you can visually separate the kitchen from the dining room, the dining room from the living room. It is easy to single out private spaces in the nursery “for two. Flower groups are set so that they do not block the passage, but outline the boundaries. Large plants – palm trees, lemon, ficus – successfully cope with the role of a false wall.

Vertical green screens

A radical way to share space is to install living partitions with a vertical arrangement of plants. Their designs are diverse, and such walls look like spicy herbs, succulents, ivy or leafy plants incredibly effective.

Designers are not in a hurry to contribute to the project a partition from the glass blocks between the bathroom and the toilet in a combined bathroom – instead of it you can install a frame for vertical gardening. Water nearby, moss or ampel plants can easily be watered with moisture, and succulents and without watering will receive it in sufficient quantities. The problem of lighting is solved by lighting, but if the bathroom with a window, then there will be no deficit of lighting.

Such structures are built in the interior partitions, dividing the hallway and living room, bedroom and study. For a vertical greenhouse will not need a single square meter of the area, because it is inscribed in the thickness of the wall.

The inner garden wall is illuminated with lamps. First, it’s incredibly beautiful. Secondly, backlighting helps plants grow intensively and fluffily blossom.

How not to fall into slavery?

Proper care of indoor plants in a city apartment takes a lot of time. How to maintain them in perfect condition and not spend half the time on your busy times?

If crop production has not turned into a favorite hobby, then it is necessary to select indoor flowers that develop well under given conditions – with available lighting, humidity, temperatures. Limit choice according to the principle of the simplest agrotechnics. Consider that for large and non-flowering plants, care is usually easier.

What do you do not want to do?

If a person categorically does not know how to look after living room colors, then this is not the reason to abandon the “green” interior. There are alternatives:

• Cultivate succulents. It is enough to water them once every 1-2 weeks, but you can not “pour” – they will get sick.
• To master the outflow of bulbous flowers, it is not difficult at all.

• Set up vertical and horizontal landscaping with auto-irrigation, mounted by professional florists.
• Order a panel of stabilized moss – living material, which, as a result of the treatment, preserves fresh appearance for 5 years.

• Limit the cut leaves and branches in the vases with water. Leaves of monsters, olive and eucalyptus branches can stand in water for 2-4 weeks.
• Use artificial plants – at some distance they can not be distinguished from the real ones.

Fashion is severe. If you do not introduce indoor plants into the interior now, then in a year it will turn out that the chic apartment design, devoid of flowers and green zones, is hopelessly outdated.

Landscaping of the balcony

It would be strange to ignore the balconies, loggias and terraces. Ways of their registration were supplemented with novelties: mini-greenhouses, similar to bird cages, mounted flower pots, placed along the entire height of the wall, and florariums.

Usually in the phytodesign of the balcony adhere to the same style as in the interior of the apartment.

What surprised us designers in 2023

Summarizing the fashionable review of plant design in the interior, we will highlight novelties, discoveries and the most important trends.

• Interior without plants is not modern.
• Plants do not happen much.
• Autonomous closed phytosystems opened a new era in the design of apartments.
• Phyto-sten with auto-irrigation is the main find of 2023.
• Florariums and micro-greenhouses are favorites for designers.
• The most sudden reception is the cultivation of plants down the crown.
• In the interior design came moss.
• The most fashionable ornamental plants in the interior are poisonous.
• Stabilized plants do not differ from the real ones, do not need care, they persist for 5-6 years.
• Artificial flowers are, it turns out, stylish.
• The cut sheet in the vase competes with a bouquet of flowers.

When a new wave catches up in fashion, the recommendations of designers are categorical, and the conceptual models are exaggerations. This is the law of the genre: to accept a new one, one must experience a shock.

Subsequently, everything will become more democratic and harmonious, but so far, at the breaking point of the fashionable trends, we were under a kind of press: or we urgently need to select plants for the interior, or we will have to fill up the ranks of the retrogrades.

However, compromise solutions have already been proposed, and choosing your own style is, perhaps, the most interesting fashion in the world.

Photo gallery – indoor plants in the interior

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Author: Mikhail Bond

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