Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: Plants that need NO light at all, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Kathyann:

You must be doing it right if your Sheff likes it inside. I've never had luck with them indoors! I have 2 that were houseplants many years ago and I planted them in the ground ... just posted a photo on another thread a few minutes ago. They are REALLY large in the yard. If we have frost or a hard freeze they are mush ... brown mushy leaves down to the ground, but they always come back in spring. Here's a pic of one in my back yard. I pull all the branches off from the bottom to give a canapy effect and so I can see the flowers and plants in the bed below.

I used to have very tall Ficus Benjamina in my screen room. Those plants are so finicky about location. If I moved them from one side of the screen room to the other, or even just a few feet to a different location they would go into shock and sometimes lose ALL their leaves! So temperamental! They wouldn't die, just lose all the leaves and take a few months to sprout new ones!