Are you looking to add a splash of color to your home during the colder months? Having winter flowers indoors as part of your decor is a fantastic way to bring nature’s beauty into your home. Whether you’re looking for a bloom for your bedroom, or something to brighten your living room, this selection of the best indoor winter flowers will bring joy to your home.
Having flowers in your home during winter reminds you of the promise of spring. Bringing a touch of nature into home and creating your own vibrant garden inside that is full of color and life adds a natural beauty to your home decor. Discover the best indoor winter flowers to grow this winter and why they are perfect choices to brighten up your home. You can navigate to any section from the list below:
- Amaryllis: A Bold Winter Bloom
- Cyclamen: Delicate and Long-Lasting Flowers
- Christmas Cactus: A Winter Favorite
- African Violet: Compact and Colorful
- Poinsettia: The Classic Holiday Plant
- Rex Begonia: Leaves add character
- Phalaenopsis Orchid: The Elegant Indoor Flower
- White Jasmine: Fragrant Winter Blooms
- Kalanchoe: The Low-Maintenance Succulent
- Peace Lily: Elegant and Air-Purifying
Amaryllis: A Bold Winter Bloom
Amaryllis is a top choice for indoor winter gardening due to its large, trumpet-shaped flowers. You can buy this plant in shades of red, pink, and white. It’s a perfect Christmas gift, but also a perfect Christmas bloom for your living room.
The stalk can grow as high as 18-36 inches so its quite tall and the bloom is unmissable. It grows from a bulb fairly quickly, so you can enjoy growing this flower at home yourself. Our guide on How To Plant Amaryllis Bulbs Indoors will help you with every step of growing your indoor amaryllis this winter.
Why Grow Amaryllis Indoors?
If you are wondering why you should grow amaryllis indoors this winter here are a few reasons why it may be the perfect choice for your home.
- Easy to grow: Amaryllis bulbs require minimal care and can bloom beautifully indoors. Perfect for those who don’t feel blessed with a green thumb or are beginner winter plant parents.
- Don’t need lots of light or space: Amaryllis thrive even in low light, making them ideal for winter and homes that don’t have a lot of natural light. They only need small pots and grow more vertically than they do horizontally.
- Festive look to your décor: The vibrant colors of Amaryllis add a festive touch to any room. If you love to decorate your home with the traditional red, green, and gold colors then the amaryllis is for you. It will complement your festive décor, and be a beautiful living bloom that will last longer than cut flowers.
Cyclamen: Delicate and Long-Lasting Flowers
Cyclamen is known for its stunning, butterfly-like flowers in shades of pink, red, and white. Often grown outside, did you know this plant can also thrive indoors in the winter months? The heart-shaped, variegated leaves give it an extra charm that looks beautiful as part of a winter garden landscape in your home.
Why Choose A Cyclamen?
- Thrives in cool temperatures: Cyclamen prefers cooler indoor temperatures, making it perfect for winter. It will thrive on a windowsill in winter where cool air may be seeping through.
- Can bloom all year: With proper care, Cyclamen can bloom for several months. If you transplant them into a shady part of the garden in spring they may even bloom all year.
- Small size: Ideal for small indoor spaces or windowsills. Cyclamen look amazing in trough like pots with plenty of space for the roots.
Christmas Cactus: A Winter Favorite
The Christmas Cactus is a popular indoor plant for winter, featuring cascading, tubular flowers in colors like pink, red, white, and orange.
Why Grow Christmas Cactus Indoors?
- Low-maintenance: Requires little light and water, making it perfect for busy plant lovers who may not have a lot of space.
- Christmas flowers: A Christmas Cactus typically blooms around Christmas, hence the name. It provides a burst of color during the holidays that adds a floral festive vibe to your home.
- A plant that becomes part of traditions: Christmas cactus like life as an indoor plant and can live for many years. The blooming of the flower tends to become a living part of festive traditions, as you look forward to the winter display.
African Violet: Compact and Colorful
African Violets (Saintpaulia), are small, velvety flowers that come in various shades of purple, pink, and white. With consistent blooms and vibrant colors they are perfect for any home and are a beautiful way to bring spring colors indoors during the winter months.
Why pick an African Violet?
- Low-light homes: The African Violet can thrive in indirect or low light and you still get beautiful flowers. It’s a small blooming plant that is perfect for homes with low light. The look lovely on the countertop of a bedroom cabinet or on a shelf where direct sunlight doesn’t reach.
- Flowers all year: With the right care, African Violets can bloom continuously throughout the year. So although they add some natural color to an indoor garden in winter, they can be a vibrant part of an indoor garden all year round.
- Perfect for small spaces: Their compact size makes them great for adding a little bit of nature to desks, shelves, and windowsills.
Poinsettia: The Classic Holiday Plant
Poinsettia (Euphorbia Pulcherrima) is a winter flower that becomes especially popular during the holiday season. You’ll find it in the shops as soon as the winter season begins. The bright, star-shaped leaves, that are often mistaken for flowers, come in shades of red, pink, white, and cream.
Why Grow Poinsettias Indoors?
- Festive vibes: The bright red and green colors perfectly complement traditional Christmas décor. This plant looks amazing in entry ways and as part as living displays in a lounge around a tree or fireplace.
- Easy to look after: Poinsettias need bright, indirect light and only moderate watering.
- Long-lasting festive color: With proper care, Poinsettias can keep their vibrant colors throughout winter, so they last beyond Christmas.
Rex Begonia: Leaves add character
Rex Begonias, also known as the painted-leaf begonia, are admired not only for their beautiful blooms but also for their striking, patterned leaves. The leaves of this plant are variegated in appearance and have a striking and festive color palette you can’t help but admire.
This plant will add beauty to any part of you home, brightening your mood on those cold winter days.
Why Choose Begonias for Indoors in Winter:
- Thrives in Indirect Light: Ideal for winter when natural sunlight is limited, this plant does not like to be in direct light, but does like to be somewhere that is bright. Perfect for bookcases, shelves, and console tables.
- Beautiful, colorful leaves: This is a plant that looks beautiful without flowering, although you can expect it to flower with a very light pink delicate bloom. The leaves make this plant an eye-catching addition to any windowsill or shelf in your home all-year round.
- Easy to care for: This is a relatively low-maintenance plant and likes the indoor temperature of 18-24C that most houses are kept at.
Phalaenopsis Orchid: The Elegant Indoor Flower
Phalaenopsis Orchids are exotic, elegant flowers that can add a touch of sophistication to your indoor garden. Bringing that luxury feel to any room the this orchid exudes style no matter your decor. It works particularly well with monochrome color palettes, modern, chic, and minimalist styles.
Why Choose Phalaenopsis Orchids?
- Long blooming time: Orchids can bloom for months, providing lasting beauty indoors.
- Low maintenance: They require minimal care and thrive in indirect light, so can be placed as a festive center piece on a coffee table or kitchen island.
- Color to match your style: This variety of orchid blooms in many colors and patterns, so you can pick the orchid that matches your festive decor. This is a plant that can add so much tropical beauty and height to your winter flower display.
White Jasmine: Fragrant Winter Blooms
Jasmine, (Jasminum polyanthum), flowers appear like clusters of small, star-shaped white flowers, giving that perfect festive look to your winter garden. The flowers when they bloom have a beautiful scent that fills your home with a sweet smell. It is for this reason jasmine is a firm favorite with indoor winter gardeners.
Why Choose to Grow Jasmine Indoors?
- Sweet fragrance: The scent of jasmine can fill a room, creating a calming atmosphere.
- Winter blooms: It flowers in winter and early spring, providing much-needed color and scent.
- Prefers cool temperatures: Thrives in cooler indoor environments, ideal for winter conditions.
Kalanchoe: The Low-Maintenance Succulent
Kalanchoe is a flowering succulent that features small, brightly colored blooms in shades of red, pink, yellow, and orange.
Why Kalanchoe Is a Great Indoor Flower.
- Minimal watering needed: As a succulent, this plant prefers its soil to dry out between watering. That means it doesn’t need lots of frequent watering, which is perfect for people with busy schedules around Christmas.
- Likes bright light: Thriving in bright, indirect light, this plant is the perfect choice to brighten a sunny windowsill this winter. It’s almost like blurring the line between inside and outside with the colorful flowers.
- Long flowering period: Kalanchoe can bloom for several months, adding long-lasting color. You’ll typically find they bloom more towards the end of winter and into spring.
Peace Lily: Elegant and Air-Purifying
The Peace Lily, (Spathiphyllum), is an elegant indoor plant known for its white hood-like flowers and lush, green foliage. Its a plant that adds luxury to your home, but only if your house is pet free as it is toxic to cats and dogs.
This plant is easy will bring beauty to your home this winter with it’s ice white flowers that will add to any winter wonderland display.
Why Grow Peace Lilies Indoors?
- Air-purifying qualities: This plant helps filter indoor air, improving air quality during winter.
- Thrives in low light: Peace Lilies thrive even in low light, so they are perfect for adding a festive vibe to a corner which may not get much light. Place in a metallic pot for a luxury winter look.
- Easy to care for: Peace lilies are easy to care for and don’t need much hands on attention from their plant parents. They only need watering when the soil is dry and it’s best to notice the first signs of a wilt before watering a peace lily.
Conclusion
Choosing one of the best indoor winter flowers can transform your home into a cozy, vibrant space during the cold months. Whether you prefer the bold blooms of Amaryllis or the delicate fragrance of Jasmine, there’s a perfect winter flower for everyone. By picking the right plant for your home and providing proper care, you can enjoy beautiful indoor blooms all season long.
Start your winter indoor garden today and enjoy a burst of color and freshness in your home!
