An indoor hanging plant offers the ideal solution for filling rooms with colorful vibrancy without being tied to a standing area. Be inspired by the most beautiful and decorative plants to hang.
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Advantages of an indoor hanging plant
A hanging houseplant has numerous advantages compared to standing specimens:
- does not take up space on windowsills, tables or shelves
- allows plant decorations, even if all stand areas are already occupied
- high rooms are to be designed decoratively
- do not interfere with vacuuming and wiping
- Room ceilings mostly offer unrestricted hanging options
- high decorative value as a hanging window decoration
- completes “jungle flair” in the conservatory
- Shoots lignify rarely or late
- usually easy to care for and undemanding
Indoor hanging plants at a glance
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Triangular maidenhair fern (Adiantum raddianum)
- Growth: ferny, upright, dense, bushy
- Growth height: up to 200 centimeters
- Flower: none
- Location: semi-shady to shady
- Special features: evergreen, sensitive to lime, prefers gravelly and sandy soils
Spiderwort (Tradescantia)
- Growth: hanging, herbaceous,
- Growth height: 40 to 60 centimeters
- Flowers: white with pink-red, white, pink, violet, individual flowers at the ends of the shoots
- Flowering period: June to September
- Location: shady to semi-shady
- Special features: fast-growing, multicolored leaves, evergreen
Fragrant beautiful cushion (Callisia fragrans)
- Growth: hanging, cushion-forming, dense, small leaves
- Growth height: 20 to 30 centimeters
- Flower: white, inconspicuous
- Flowering period: June to July
- Location: shady to semi-shady
- Special features: evergreen, sensitive to lime
True Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia)
- Habit: Climbing indoor plant that hangs without a climbing aid
- Growth height: up to 200 centimeters
- Flowers: green-yellow to creamy-yellow, racemes
- Flowering time: summer
- Location: sunny to semi-shady, no direct sunlight, ambient temperature at least 18 degrees Celsius, likes high humidity
- Special features: orchid plant, very floriferous, formation of edible vanilla pods possible
Efeutute (Epipremnum pinnatum)
- Growth: climbing, overhanging
- Growth height: 50 to 200 centimeters
- Flower: green-white, spadix
- Flowering time: summer (rarely flowering in local latitudes)
- Location: shady to semi-shady
- Special features: poisonous, evergreen
Herbs (Senecio rowleyanus)
- Habit: Succulent, carpet-forming, dense, hanging houseplant
- Growth height: 10 to 20 centimeters
- Flowers: violet, yellow, pink, white, flower heads
- Flowering period: May to August
- Location: sunny to semi-shady
- Special features: slightly fragrant, sensitive to lime, evergreen
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Felsen-Dickblatt (Crassula rupestris subsp. Marnieriana)
- Growth: Succulent, hanging
- Growth height: 15 to 25 centimeters
- Flowers: white, umbels
- Flowering period: August to October
- Location: sunny, bright
- Special features: evergreen, must hibernate in a cool place at around 15 degrees Celsius
Monstera deliciosa
- Growth: twining, climbing, hanging without a climbing aid
- Growth height: 50 to 300 centimeters
- Flower: white, spadix
- Flowering time: September to October
- Location: sunny to shady
- Special features: evergreen, has poisonous plant parts, heart-shaped, slit leaves
Forellenbegonie (Begonia maculata)
- Growth: hanging, spreading, upright
- Growth height: 80 to 100 centimeters
- Flowers: white, pink, tufted
- Flowering period: May to August
- Location: sunny
- Special features: evergreen, multicolored foliage with light spots, sensitive to lime
Common ivy (Hedera helix)
- Growth: climbing, hanging
- Growth height: 250 to 500 centimeters
- Flowers: green-yellow, umbel-shaped
- Flowering time: September – October (rarely blooms and at the earliest after ten years)
- Location: sun to shade
- Special features: evergreen, robust, undemanding, also suitable for unheated conservatories and outdoors
Antler fern (Platycerium bifurcatum)
- Growth: Fern with fronds, sprawling, overhanging
- Growth height: 50 to 100 centimeters
- Flower: none
- Location: shady to semi-shady
- Special features: evergreen, requires an acidic pH value, sensitive to lime
Grünlilie (Chlorophytum comosum)
- Growth: perennial, overhanging
- Growth height: up to 200 centimeters
- Flower: white, grape-shaped
- Flowering period: January to December
- Location: sunny to semi-shady
- Special features: evergreen, grassy leaves, lime tolerant
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Kannenpflanze (Nepenthes)
- Growth: bizarre, overhanging, loose, climbing
- Growth height: 200 to 300 centimeters
- Flowers: yellow-brown, racemes, racemes
- Flowering time: March to September
- Location: sunny
- Special features: evergreen, flowers smell unpleasant, available with different leaf colors in green, yellow, red and multicolored
Kängeruruhwein (Cissus antarctica)
- Growth: climbing, overhanging, bushy
- Growth height: 250 to 300 centimeters
- Flowers: green, white, umbels
- Flowering time: summer (rarely flowering in local latitudes)
- Location: sunny
- Special features: evergreen, tolerant of lime, produces berries
Kletter-Philodendron (Philodendron scandens)
- Growth: climbing, overhanging without climbing aids
- Growth height: 300 to 500 centimeters
- Flower: white, spadix
- Flowering time: spring (rarely flowering in local latitudes)
- Location: shady to semi-shady
- Special features: sensitive to lime, requires an acidic pH value , purifies the air, evergreen
Coral Ractus (Rhipsalis cassutha)
- Growth: Succulent, hanging bizarrely overhanging
- Growth height: 20 to 30 centimeters
- Flower: white, funnel-shaped
- Flowering time: November to December
- Location: sunny to off-sun
- Special features: sensitive to lime, evergreen, white berries
Leopter (Ceropegia woodii)
- Growth: hanging, loose
- Growth height: up to 200 centimeters
- Flower: pink, single flower, tubular
- Flowering time: Late summer to autumn, possible year-round flowering in a bright location
- Location: shady to semi-shady
- Special features: evergreen, multicolored leaves, thread-thin shoots
Louisianamoos (Tillandsia usneoides)
- Growth: hanging long
- Growth height: up to 300 centimeters
- Flower: inconspicuous in green
- Location: sunny to semi-shady
- Special features: evergreen, sensitive to lime, unique hanging houseplant
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Pfeilwurz (Maranta)
- Growth: upright, overhanging, clump-forming
- Growth height: up to 200 centimeters
- Flower: white, single flower
- Flowering time: April to May
- Location: partially shaded
- Special features: evergreen, sensitive to lime, many arrowroot varieties available
Rachenrebe (Columnea)
- Growth: overhanging
- Growth height: 40 to 200 centimeters
- Flowers: red, yellow, orange-yellow with yellow markings, very attractive and striking
- Flowering time: March to April
- Location: sunny without direct sunlight, high humidity
- Special features: evergreen, hibernate cool at 13 to 17 degrees Celsius
Dandelion (Aeschynanthus)
- Growth: hanging
- Growth height: up to 150 centimeters
- Flower: yellow, orange, red, tubular
- Flowering period: June to September
- Location: sunny
- Specialties: evergreen, prefers sandy soil
Snake Stonecrop (Sedum morganianum)
- Growth: Succulent, hanging, bizarre
- Growth height: 90 to 100 centimeters
- Flower: red, pink, inconspicuous
- Flowering period: August to September
- Location: sunny
- Special features: sensitive to lime, green, grey-silver leaf colour, evergreen
Sword Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata)
- Growth: upright, overhanging, clump-forming
- Growth height: 20 to 50 centimeters
- Flower: none
- Location: sunny
- Special features: evergreen, sensitive to lime
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Tillandsien (Tillandsia)
- Growth: grassy, sprawling
- Growth height: 20 to 30 centimeters
- Flowers: depending on the species, pink, red, violet, violet-blue, tubular or loosely attached to the bracts
- Flowering time: depending on the species from February to October
- Location: sunny, light to semi-shady
- Special features: attractive bracts; gray, light or green leaves; long-lived, hardy, evergreen hanging houseplant
Wachsblume (Hoya)
- Growth: strong and low-growing, overhanging
- Growth height: up to 300 centimeters
- Flowers: yellow, light pink, white near the ground or hanging down, umbels with up to 30 individual flowers
- Flowering time: May to September, for the first time after a few years
- Location: sunny, bright, no blazing sun
- Special features: evergreen, sensitive to lime, blooms profusely, very long-lived
Zebrakraut (Tradescantia zebrina)
- Growth: hanging, sprawling
- Growth height: 30 to 100 centimeters
- Flower: white, pink, cup-shaped
- Flowering period: January to December
- Location: sunny
- Special features: sensitive to lime, multicolored leaves, evergreen
Zierspargel (Asparagus densiflorus)
- Growth: upright, overhanging, sprawling, bushy
- Growth height: 30 to 100 centimeters
- Flower: white, single flower
- Flowering period: June to August
- Location: sunny to semi-shady, warm
- Special features: evergreen, poisonous red berries, tolerant of lime
Dwarf pepper (Peperomia obtusifolia)
- Growth: low, slightly sprawling, sometimes upright indoor hanging plant, clump-forming
- Growth height: 15 to 30 centimeters
- Flowers: white, yellow, spike-shaped
- Flowering time: April to December
- Location: shady to semi-shady
- Special features: evergreen, multicolored foliage, tolerant of lime
frequently asked Questions
Usually not. Each plant species has its own care needs, which are independent of a hanging or standing location. Very long growing plants may need to be trimmed more frequently, but again this is purely based on the plant species.
Many of these plants can also be placed in tall containers. Especially with a compact growth, numerous plant lovers decide to occasionally switch between hanging indoor plants on the ceiling, beams or similar and hanging down on standing pots. This brings variety to the room design. With very long-growing specimens, however, this is usually not possible because there is no airy, unhindered downward spread.
With the traffic light/hanging pot, make sure that a saucer is attached to the bottom of the pot. Unfortunately, the maximum amount of water for a saucer can rarely be found exactly. If you want to be on the safe side, remove your indoor hanging plant for watering, place it on a non-sensitive surface and wait after watering until no more water drips off or pour off excess water.
