If you love the color red, there are many different houseplants with bright red leaves that you can add to your indoor garden.
Here are 10 beautiful indoor plants with red leaves to add color to your home.
Some of these plants can also be planted outdoors if they’re protected from frosts.
6 BEAUTIFUL RED FOLIAGE HOUSEPLANTS
1. Poinsettia
Poinsettias are one of the most popular red houseplants and you’ll see lots of them around at Christmas time.
The red leaves are actually bracts, or modified leaves, and they begin to appear as the days start to shorten in winter.
Poinsettias can also be forced to flower at other times of the year by reducing the light.
It’s a good idea to cut poinsettias back when they’ve finished flowering so they don’t become leggy and only water them when the soil feels dry to touch.
2. Croton
Crotons have beautiful foliage in a range of colors including red, pink, orange, yellow and green.
They like warmth and humidity and you can spray them with a mister during dry weather.
Croton plants don’t like being relocated and they can lose their leaves if they’re moved around too much.
3. Caladium
Caladiums are stunning indoor plants with colorful foliage including some beautiful red varieties.
They grow from tubers and will die back and re-grow each year.
You can leave the tubers in the soil while they’re dormant but don’t water them while they’re in a dormant state.
4. Coleus
Coleus has colorful foliage in a range of colors including some beautiful shades of red.
There are many different varieties of Coleus including upright and trailing varieties that look great in hanging baskets.
You can grow Coleus plants indoors or outdoors and they’re perfect for shaded areas.
If the leaves on your Coleus fade, it may be because the plant is getting too much sunlight.
5. Bromeliads
Bromeliads are tropical plants that are perfect for humid areas and they’re ideal for bathrooms.
They have long lasting flowers that are really modified leaves called bracts.
Bromeliads are low maintenance indoor plants. Just be careful to keep them out of direct sunlight as it can burn the leaves.
6. Anthurium
Anthurium, also known as Flamingo flower, has bright red flowers, which are actually leaf-like parts known as a spathe.
They grow best in bright, indirect light.
In low light you’ll get fewer flowers but direct sunlight will burn the leaves.
Anthuriums can be divided when they grow too big for their pot.