Air Purifying Indoor Plants - Clean Air Houseplants

Bamboo Palm is a beautiful, evergreen, multi-stemmed palm with feathery, arching leaves that creates stunning tropical displays both indoors and outdoors. This popular houseplant adds instant tropical elegance to living rooms, office reception areas, patios, and shaded garden spaces while serving as an excellent natural air purifier. The graceful, clumping growth habit and golden-yellow stems make it perfect for creating privacy screens or focal points in semi-shaded areas. Plant 2-3m apart for screening or use as specimen trees in containers and garden beds. Feed monthly during growing season with a balanced palm fertilizer and enrich soil with quality compost for optimal growth. The Bamboo Palm benefits from occasional misting to increase humidity, especially when grown indoors. Learn how to plant a tree the right way for successful palm establishment, or discover how to choose the perfect tree for your garden with tropical palms like Bamboo Palm.

Portulacaria Afra, the classic Spekboom, is South Africa's beloved 'miracle plant' featuring traditional small, round succulent leaves that create dense, compact growth perfect for detailed pruning and shaping. This indigenous carbon-capturing champion is renowned for its fine-textured foliage and ability to form tight, neat hedges with regular trimming. Its small leaf structure makes it ideal for bonsai work, intricate topiary designs, and precise garden borders where detailed definition is desired. Feed with a balanced succulent fertilizer in spring to encourage healthy growth and maintain its characteristic dense branching pattern. The classic Spekboom's compact leaf size and naturally bushy habit make it particularly suitable for smaller garden spaces, container growing, and applications where a refined, detailed appearance is preferred over bold architectural statements.

Delicious Monster is a stunning tropical houseplant with large, glossy leaves that develop distinctive splits and holes as they mature, perfect for creating dramatic indoor displays and bringing natural beauty into your home. This popular climbing plant thrives in bright, indirect light and can grow quite large, making it an excellent statement piece for living rooms, offices, or any indoor space that needs a touch of tropical elegance. With proper care, mature plants can even produce edible fruit after 2-3 years, adding an exciting element to your indoor garden. Place in bright, indirect light and water when the top inch of soil feels dry, feeding monthly during growing season with a balanced houseplant fertilizer to encourage healthy growth and leaf development. For best results, plant in quality indoor potting soil for optimal drainage and nutrition. Learn how indoor plants can give you a breath of fresh air or discover container gardening tips for growing beautiful houseplants indoors.

'Snake Plants', sometimes referred to as' Mother-in-law's-tongue', are some of the toughest plants you can find. They are one of the best air-purifier plants, especially for people with allergies. Whether indoors, in your garden or on your balcony, these spiky beauties create striking contrast when being grouped with other plants.The 'Snake Plant' is ideal for beginner gardeners,apartments or offices; remaining a timeless favourite in Western Cape homes.

A best-seller. Popular due to its attractive foliage, drought tolerance and pest free nature this plant looks fantastic in hanging baskets or containers. Widely used as a quick spreading ground cover for outdoor garden landscaping. The variegated leaves brighten up a shady area. This favourite prefers partial shade, especially in hot climates.  The plant produces long, slender stems which carry white flowers and plantlets at the tip of the flowers.  A single plant with its stems soon become a mother plant surrounded by its 'babies' and therefore the name 'hen and chickens' Water regularly during the growing season but sparingly in winter when the plant is dormant. They prefer being watered from the bottom and not from above. Indigenous. 

This rubber plant showcases glossy, oval leaves in a chic palette of dark green with stylish hints of pink and cream. Ruby loves medium indirect light but thrives with a touch of brightness to keep her variegated leaves on point. Not just a style icon, she's also an air-purifying superstar, filtering toxins to keep your space fresh and clean. And for that extra shine, treat her to a leafy spa day with a gentle wipe using buttermilk or leaf gloss. Water when the top inch of soil feels dry and feed monthly during growing season with a balanced houseplant fertilizer to encourage healthy growth and maintain vibrant variegation. For best results, plant in quality indoor potting soil for optimal drainage and nutrition. Learn how indoor plants can give you a breath of fresh air or discover container gardening tips for growing beautiful houseplants indoors.

Snake plants, sometimes referred to as mother-in-law's-tongue, are some of the toughest plants you can find. Whether indoors, in your garden or on your balcony, these spiky beauties with green and silver leaves can put up with almost anything. .

Hope is a soft succulent with light green, round foliage that is slightly thicker than most other peperomia varieties. These easy to care for beauties are ideal to bring a modern dash of colour to your interior space.

Lyrata Bambino has smaller and darker leaves than the normal Fiddle Leaf Fig. The leaves also grow closer together, giving the plant a more compact look.  

These extremely popular, undemanding, houseplants is one of todays 'it' plants. They grace the pages of magazines and instagram. They prefer lots of bright filtered light and should be kept away from drafts. They grow outdoors in a sub-tropical climate and should therefore be kept indoors or on a protected patio in the Western Cape. Misting and sponging the leaves are beneficial and buttermilk or commercial leaf gloss will enhance the sheen of the leaves. Only water when the soil feels dry. 

A very popular flowering houseplant, with glossy oval leaves that emerge from the ground. With enough light, your Peace lily will produce striking white flowers starting in the early summer, blooming throughout the year in the right conditions. Can withstand darker growing conditions but will not flower.

Does not want its roots wet and enjoys water at room temperature and not cold water. A good air purifier.

These popular houseplants will be of major value to your living room. Its eye-catching, waxy heart-shaped spates, breathes an exotic and tropical atmoshere. The Anthurium blossoms constantly, so that you always have a flowering plant. Popular with florists the world over. Place them in a light but not too sunny spot. Water often but not too much.

Hope is a soft succulent with light green, round foliage that is slightly thicker than most other peperomia varieties. These easy to care for beauties are ideal to bring a modern dash of colour to your interior space.

Popular due to its attractive foliage, drought tolerance and pest free nature this plant looks great in hanging baskets or containers. Also known as the curly spider plant or hen-and-chickens. Easy to grow and a beginner friendly plant.  Brings air purifying qualities to your indoor space.

* In plastic hanging basket

The leaves of the Irish Spider Plant is densely packed, and shorter and broader than most other Spider plant varieties.  The Irish variety is also known for it's reverse pattern of variegation, of bright green in the middle with white margins.  This is a low maintenance houseplant with excellent air purifying qualities. 

A popular and easy to grow houseplant with heart-shaped glossy marble leaves. You can pinch your plant back to help it branch out, keeping the plant bushy and full. Or you can train it or trail it from a hanging basket. Provides air purifying properties to your indoor space.  Allow soil to dry out before watering.

*Toxic to pets and small children. 

Philodendron Scandens Variegated is a stunning, low-maintenance trailing plant with heart-shaped leaves featuring unique green and white marbling. Known for its striking variegation, it adds a touch of elegance to any indoor space. Easy to care for, this plant thrives in indirect light and prefers a well-draining soil mix. Perfect for hanging baskets or as a climbing vine, the Philodendron Scandens Variegated is an eye-catching addition to your home or office.