It does technically require some plant management, but it’s easier than managing big plants: You can keep a jade succulent plant small by pruning its branches and roots every few years. They can handle a lot of chopping, and you can also root the cuttings by sticking it in soil—easy gifts for friends. For the small-leaf varieties, look for Crassula ovata ‘Gollum’ or Crassula ovata ‘Crosby’s Compact’. You can also do this with Elephant bush (Portulacaria afra), a similar succulent, but I don’t have any personal experience with them. Answer from thebourgeois on reddit.com
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r/houseplants on Reddit: House plants that stay tiny?
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Years ago I bought a Snake Plant from a thrift store (it was very sad and wilted, sitting in a plastic bag out in the sun.... they still charged me two dollars for it lol). This plant grew A LOT and I had to buy a larger pot for it, then I bought a second pot to move the rest of the plants into. Then I just gave it away to my friends.
Are there any plants that will live forever in a small to medium sized pot? I like having plants in my apartment but I don't want to add "plant management" to my ever-increasing to-do list. Thank you for any help.
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It does technically require some plant management, but it’s easier than managing big plants: You can keep a jade succulent plant small by pruning its branches and roots every few years. They can handle a lot of chopping, and you can also root the cuttings by sticking it in soil—easy gifts for friends. For the small-leaf varieties, look for Crassula ovata ‘Gollum’ or Crassula ovata ‘Crosby’s Compact’. You can also do this with Elephant bush (Portulacaria afra), a similar succulent, but I don’t have any personal experience with them.
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If you want something that truly stays the same size while still being alive try hoya kerii hearts, they can't grow without a piece of stem being attached to the leaf so they just stay a little heart in a pot, they come in 2 types of variegation and sometimes splash too. Lots of other hoya can stay in small pots too but will still grow long. Cacti are also good for small pots but you need to have enough light for them or they will get leggy or suffer root rot, hoya can handle less light but you still dont want to overwater them, wait until they're completely dry and their leaf(s) start to get a bit bendy before giving them a good soak. The less light generally the less water a plant needs
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9 Tiny Houseplants That Will Look Adorable in Your Mini Garden
February 17, 2024 - Mount them on driftwood, arrange them in a basket, or create a soil-free mini terrarium for these mess-free plants. They grow very slowly and need little more than partial sunlight and a weekly dunking in water to stay hydrated. ... Light: Bright to medium indirect light. Mature Size: 2-12 in. tall ... Donkey's tail is the perfect houseplant for that person who has a bright sunny spot with room for a small trailing or creeping plant.
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It does technically require some plant management, but it’s easier than managing big plants: You can keep a jade succulent plant small by pruning its branches and roots every few years. They can handle a lot of chopping, and you can also root the cuttings by sticking it in soil—easy gifts for friends. For the small-leaf varieties, look for Crassula ovata ‘Gollum’ or Crassula ovata ‘Crosby’s Compact’. You can also do this with Elephant bush (Portulacaria afra), a similar succulent, but I don’t have any personal experience with them. More on reddit.com
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April 22, 2024Tiny plants for 2 inch pot?
The picture in my head of the finished product is cute but not sure what plants to put in. Maybe use it for a propagation station? More on reddit.com
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December 15, 2021small plants that stay small?
Crypto parva, montecarlo, dwarf hairgrass, pogostemon helferi, hygrophila araguaia, rotala nanjenshan if you mow it and keep it in medium light, melon sword if kept in low light, and I know you mention you don’t want to glue them but if you can find some bucephalandras on the small side, you can totally plant them on the ground by burying their roots (not the rhizome though). More on reddit.com
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Pilea
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Cute Small Houseplants Perfect For Tiny Spaces
June 25, 2020 - In case you need an even smaller plant, mini Pilea will stay tiny and fit any little nook of your home!
Better Homes & Gardens
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Our Favorite Tiny Plants for Miniature Landscaping
June 19, 2022 - This petite, conical plant displays densely clustered foliage and doesn't need regular pinching to stay small. Preferring moist soil, this miniature garden plant will tolerate some shade. ... Also known as mondo grass, this little plant creates the look of fountain grass in miniature landscapes. Tiny white flowers are held high on the plant, followed by blue berries.
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Small & Tiny Plants | Tabletop Houseplants for Any Room | The Sill
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Epic Gardening
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15 Tiny Houseplants For Your Indoor Garden
October 5, 2023 - This group is native to desserts of Southern Africa and is completely different from any other plant you may have encountered. They survive on almost no water – teaspoons at a time – and have a pair of fused leaves that gently separate to reveal an adorable flower in the right conditions. Although this is one of the tiniest of all the tiny houseplants on this list, it does come with a catch.
Terrarium Tribe
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10+ Wonderfully Small Terrarium Plants (for Tiny Projects)
January 24, 2022 - Finding small terrarium plants that will fit into the most minute of containers can be a real challenge. And even then, you’ll want to be sure that they’ll stay small. I’ve been caught out before by an unsuspecting microscopic fern that only a few months later revealed itself as the monstrous giant it truly is. To help you avoid being lured in by the same trap, I’ve curated a list of tiny terrarium must-haves with everything from miniature ferns to baby vines and teeny-weeny foliage showstoppers.
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r/terrariums on Reddit: Plants that are not only mini, but stay mini?
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There's a lot of plants recommended for terrariums because they look mini due to their small leaves, but will still continue to grow. I'm looking for variants of plants that grow small, and stay small overall so I don't have to trim. I want a closed terrarium that stays closed, and looks like a mini landscape basically
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Plant's goal in life is to grow and thrive and make more plants. Your best bet is to find some ultra slow growers. Maintenance is part and parcel of any living thing. To be fair, this sub is filled with lots of people who use tiny tiny vessels and put in plants that will well outgrow them quickly. When I am less tired I can probably give you a list of small tropical plants, but for now have you considered aquatic plants? Utricularia have tiny flowers and often look like orchids, anubias Nana petite is very slow growing, bolbotis, cryptocoryns. (Tired brain doesn't work) Small plants: brass buttons, syngonium fairy, fittonias, there's some small peperomias but they don't love to be constantly wet. Some are more forgiving. Cotton candy or fluffy ruffles fern, some calatheas and ctenanthe burle marxii stay pretty small. There's a few begonias that stay pretty compact. There's quite a few pilea varieties, the ones with small leaves are usually pretty good. I've never liked selaginella after a few months, and the creeping figs or mini Ivy are good if you don't mind maintenance. I've also had good luck wandering around a nursery and proplifting some of the moss, liverworts and tiny ferns that grow like weeds in the plant pots (thanks for reminding) me to update when less tired
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One trick that works with some plants, especially finicky tropical plants, is to just deprive them of an ideal growing environment. Namely, move them further away from the light, use a less fertile substrate, and be conservative with rewatering them. A lot of plants will go "dormant" and stay small and not grow much but keep on living and staying attractive for months, even years if given just the right amount of light. If you've ever had a house plant that just never died or grew a new leaf but just kept powering on looking exactly as you bought it, it was probably dormant. Even with plants that stay small, keeping up maintenance by trimming new growths every few weeks will help, though very dedicated growers will start to look ugly after a few rounds of this. It's also not just the above-ground growth to keep track of, I've got a little "bonsai" fig plant I stuck in a 20Gallon terrarium and even though I've kept the vegetative growth in check, it's roots have so thoroughly colonized the substrate and drainage layer that it sucks all the water out of the soil within just a couple days of watering. Fighting with plants to keep them both nicely sized and attractive is a pretty inescapable part of the hobby.
BloomBoxClub
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Small Plants | Shop Now at Bloombox Club – BloomBoxClub USA
Beautiful small indoor plants for your home. Be it on a desk or a small shelf, these mini houseplants are easy to find a spot for. They come in growing pots that are no bigger than 4”. Our range of small indoor plants is super diverse, with different shapes, patterns, and colors that will make any space look wonderful.
Proflowers
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21 Small Indoor Plants for Apartment Living | Proflowers Blog
January 21, 1970 - Small plants, like succulents and air plants, are perfect for adding greenery to your desk or your nightstand. Slightly bigger plants like peace lilies can take up some floor space, but they won’t overwhelm any corner of the room with lush ...
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15 small houseplants that take up almost no space.
At ten centimetres in diameter and fifteen centimetres in height, Haworthia fasciata is without doubt the smallest plant on our list. You'll be sure to find a place for it in your home, even if you live in a tiny house or if plants are already ...
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Micro + Mini Plants
We grow only the hardiest dwarf variety plants and make each planter for the needs of each plant. These plants will stay small in their planters and will not need to be repotted!
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Miniature House Plants for Small Spaces – Fafard
Baby rubber plant looks much like the large rubber plant (Ficus elastica), but it is tiny in comparison maxing out at around 12 inches rather than many feet. Be sure to provide them pots with drainage holes and porous, high-quality soil such as Fafard Professional Potting Mix. Allow the pots to become moderately dry between watering. Peperomia graveolens ‘Ruby Glow’ leaves have pretty reddish undersides. Most living stones (Lithops spp.) ...
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10 Smallest House Plants for Tiny Spaces | BBC Gardeners World Magazine
September 29, 2025 - For tiny pots, choose compact varieties such as Echeveria minima, which forms rosettes that are only 4cm in diameter, 'Purple Pearl', with pink-edged grey leaves, or 'Blue Frills', which has frilly blue-green leaves.
Tumbleweed Plants
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Mini Plants - Tiny Houseplants & Succulents | Tumbleweed Plants
Shop mini plants for small spaces! Cute succulents, desk-sized greenery, perfect gifts. Adorable tiny plants for Singapore homes. Order collection now!
Costa Farms
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New Collection: Tiny Plants – Costa Farms
Varieties in the Tiny Plants Collection are grown in small (you might even call them tiny!) 2.5-inch-wide pots. These starterplants range from about 2 inches tall (from the bottom f the pot to the top of the plant) to about 4 inches tall, depending on the specific type. To ensure there's a perfect plant in the collection for everyone, we've grown more than 40 different selections, from classics for terrariums such as Fittonia and Hemigraphis (Waffle Plant) to low-care varieties like Peperomia obtusifolia and Variegated Rubber Tree (Ficus Shivereana) to trendy varieties like Alocasia cuprea and Philodendron Silver Sword.
Quirky Plants
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Small Plants – Quirky Plants
The baby areca palm is an indoor houseplant that will stay small. She’s perfect for a small nook in your home as she won’t grow much (only about an inch per year). She’s also a happy chappy when it comes to low-light, which should also ...
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Our Top Cute Indoor Tiny Plants for Small Pots | 136 home
January 6, 2024 - If so, then the Baby Toes is the succulent for you! Growing up to a maximum size of only three inches, this tiny succulent is definitely worth considering if you’re running out of dedicated plant space.
Garden Design
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10 Small Houseplants Perfect for Tight Spaces | Garden Design
January 22, 2025 - Although some alocasias can grow as tall as 6 feet, you can also find compact forms, sometimes called “jewel alocasias,” that are small enough to display on a tabletop or in a well-lit corner. These tropical beauties flourish in greenhouse-like conditions, so keep them away from cold drafts and don’t expose plants to temperatures below 60° F.