I'm looking to get my girlfriend a plant for her dorm room. I'm not getting a cactus or plant with thorns. Suggestions should be of relatively small, potted plants, flowering or no, and can survive in a dorm.

If anyone has 1st hand experience with a certain type of plant, that would be good too.

8/29/2007 10:04:51 PM

get an aloe plant. easy to keep alive

8/29/2007 10:07:15 PM

pot.

duh.

8/29/2007 10:10:21 PM

snake plant

heart-leaf philodendron

jade plant

all practically indestructible and can easily go weeks without water

[Edited on August 29, 2007 at 10:13 PM. Reason : ']

8/29/2007 10:12:16 PM

8/29/2007 10:18:05 PM

venus flytrap. it also works well as a insect killer in their room since it eats flies. im taking herbiology this semster so i know things like this.

8/29/2007 10:20:49 PM

^ Yeah except they're a bitch to take care of.

8/29/2007 10:45:45 PM

I don't know much about plants, but my mom had an African violet for several years that seemed to grow well despite pretty much everything that happened to it.

8/29/2007 10:57:40 PM

I had a heartleaf philodendron in my dorm room. It was awesome. You can't kill those things! I still have it and it has grown soo much now. Probably 10ft long now.

8/29/2007 10:58:37 PM

the fake kind

8/29/2007 11:07:48 PM

lucky bamboo

8/29/2007 11:45:08 PM

herbiology only exist in harry potter.

8/30/2007 12:15:10 AM

peace lily
aloe

8/30/2007 12:16:47 AM

how come nobody suggested dracena?


there are several species, one of them is the "lucky bamboo"


these do very well in low light

9/2/2007 5:21:21 PM

ivy

african violet

pansies

9/2/2007 5:23:29 PM

jade is good, but never grows (grows that slowly)... it just kinda stays the same.

9/2/2007 6:12:13 PM

you have some good ones posted

I had a snake plant
I had an African Violet
both were great...

I can see how bamboo would do well

Also I got a "Marginata" Dracaena---(it looks like a little palm tree) at Harris Teeter in Cameron Village in 1999 and I still have it now...it has since had a baby and is doing quite well. It has been "watered" with beer, and is planted in frat house soil and has lived. Quite possibly the easiest plant to take care of EVER.

9/2/2007 8:51:36 PM

Scindapsus aureus or Money Plant. They grow really easily and you have to only water rarely. If you snip off a piece and stick it in potting mix they just grow roots in no time.

9/2/2007 11:38:52 PM

Ivy leaf morning glory. You can't kill it.

9/3/2007 12:04:09 AM