When the air conditioning is running all summer, your home can become a challenging environment for houseplants. Constantly moving air can dry foliage, while rooms with closed windows may have less humidity than tropical plants would encounter outdoors. And yet there is one group of houseplants that can handle these modern indoor conditions surprisingly well: philodendrons.
Not every philodendron is equally adaptable, but many of the familiar varieties are remarkably forgiving. They can cope with the lower light found in many homes, tolerate average household humidity, and generally don't fall apart if you occasionally forget to water them. That makes them particularly well suited to the way we actually live now, when keeping the house comfortable for people can mean creating conditions that aren't quite so comfortable for tropical plants.
