Looking for the best indoor hanging plants for your home? Hanging plants are an amazing and easy way to bring life to your home while also making it look great. Here are some of my favorite trailing indoor plants.
16 of the Best Indoor Hanging Plants: Stunning Trailing Plants for Your Home
Today I am finally getting around to rounding up all of my care posts for some of my favorite gorgeous trailing plants. Finding the best indoor hanging plants for your home is a great way to help purify your air and make your rooms look gorgeous while also keeping your plants up and off the floor.
1. Pothos Hanging Plants
Pothos care is simple—and pothos plants are some of the most classic hanging plants you’ll find in big box nursery stores or nurseries. There are several different varieties you’ll likely encounter. Here are some of the most common:
- Golden pothos, which is variegated with green and yellow, sometimes hints of off-white
- Marble queen pothos, which is off-white and green
- Emerald/jade pothos, which is solid green
- Neon pothos, which is a solid neon green
I have quite a few pothos plants hanging around my home. They also look lovely high up on shelves trailing down or pinned up onto a wall to give an “ivy-like” look. Here are a few pics of my pothos plants.
2. Ric Rac Cactus
The ric rac cactus is a newer member of my hanging plant family, and it’s one of my favorites. A ric rac cactus was on my wish list for quite a while before I bit the bullet and ordered one online.
It is growing really quickly, too. I can’t wait to be able to trim some cuttings for these to give them away to my plant-loving friends and fam.
3. Hoya Carnosa Plants
Hoya carnosa plants, more commonly known as wax plants, have been a houseplant staple for decades. The thick, waxy leaves and vines climb and vine up and down, creating a full and lovely look.
There are different varieties, but you’ll likely find the ones pictured below: jade carnosa, carnosa krimson queen, and the carnosa krimson princess.
4. Hoya Rope Plants
Hoya rope plants are actually a type of hoya carnosa—hoya carnosa compacta. However, I think they are cool enough to warrant their own call-out here. The stems on the hoya rope plant are thicker than the long, spindly stems on the other hoya carnosas.
But the biggest difference is the leaves. On the hoya rope plant, the leaves twist and curl, creating a gorgeous rope-like effect. They trail down and are heavy, so they can be draped up along other things.
I had never seen a mature rope plant in real life until my friend found this one in Texas and sent it to me. It is an absolute stunner. Now I have three rope plants, and they remain one of my favorite types of hoya.
5. String of Pearls Trailing Succulent Plants
The string of pearls succulent has the most amazing pea-looking round pearl-shaped leaves that trail on dainty stems. A healthy plant is full of gorgeous pearls that can grow several feed long. I have one hanging in front of a sunny window. As a bonus, this plant is incredibly easy to propagate.
6. Burro’s Tail Succulent Plants
Burro’s tail is another gorgeous trailing succulent. The chunky leaves cascade down thick succulent stems—and the leaves are fragile, so be careful! It is a more compact hanging plant, and it needs a lot of light, so reserve a sunny window for this one.
Like the string of pearls, it’s also easy to propagate from leaves. And the leaves are super fragile, so propagating the ones that fall off is a great idea!
7. Rhipsalis Trailing Cactus Plants
My husband got me my first rhipsalis plant, the rhipsalis campos-portoana, for mother’s day. There are many different rhipsalis varieties, and they all have some sort of branching, leggy stems that look lovely in hanging planters.
You’ll likely find this plant labeled as “mistletoe cactus” at your local nursery, but that typically refers to one type of rhipsalis cactus. There are many lovely varieties.
8. Heart-leaf Philodendron
Heart-leaf philodendron is often confused with pothos plants. While they do have similar leaf shapes and sizes, and while the plants themselves trail the same way and often even have similar variegations, they are totally different plants.
They have similar care needs, though, and are both very easy to care for. One of my favorite varieties of this plant is the philodendron Brasil, which has gorgeous bright green and yellow variegations. The leaves are also quite showy and shiny.
9. Philodendron Micans
Another very popular type of heart-leaf trailing philodendron is micans. Micans is very much like more traditional heart-leaf philodendron, except the leaves have a gorgeous green velvet finish.
The undersides of the leaves are an almost purple-ish color. I find that this variety likes more humidity than other heart-leave philodendrons.
10. Spider Plants
Spider plants are another houseplant staple. Their long curly leaves look great in hanging baskets, but the real show-stopper on these plants is the stems and babies. Spider plants shoot out long stems, at the end of which are baby spider plants!
These create a gorgeous waterfall of plants. Check my mom’s spider plant out. It has tons of spider plants ready to cut off, root, and propagate. But you can also just leave them on the plants and let them continue to cascade.
11. Wandering Tradescantia Zebrina Plants
The gorgeous variegation on wandering dude plants—purple, green, and silver—can vary in how vivd it is. Sometimes the green and silver markings show quite vividly, whereas other times the plant is more of a purple color. It’s gorgeous either way! Learn all about how to care for wandering tradescantia zebrina plants here.
12. Tradescantia Nanouk Plants
The tradescantia nanouk plant is a newer variegation of watering jew plants (their official name is tradescantia zebrina). The plant has a similar size and structure to other varieties of wandering jew, but the plant lacks the normal purple color. Instead, the variegation is more hot pink, pastel pink, and pastel green.
This plant is harder to come by than many of the other plants on this list, but I was able to get my hands on a small one at a nearby nursery. The plant is in such high demand that they had a buying limit on them! That always makes me happy because it just means that people won’t be able to snatch them all up.
13. String of Hearts Trailing Plant
String of hearts is another trendy plant that has been in high demand lately. It is dainty and remains fairly compact, but its fine stems can trail up to several feet long. Mine is relatively juvenile now, so I’ve got it on a shelf.
The stems can get super long and produce really cool looking tubular flowers. And there is a variegated version of string of hearts that is quite lovely, too.
14. Curly Orchid Cactus Hanging Plants
My curly orchid cactus looks stunning hanging in my leather plant pot holder. I love how low maintenance this plant is—just a bit of water every once in a while, and its long curly stems grow like weeds. This plant is also closely related to the night-blooming cereus plant, which also has a trailing habit and looks lovely!
15. Staghorn Fern
I have to admit, I am not a fern girl. Ferns and I just don’t get a long. But I like admiring them from afar, and I always give staghorn ferns a second look when I see them. They are so unique looking and can often look amazing hanging on walls instead of ceilings.
16. Lipstick Plants
And finally, last on the list are lipstick plants! Lipstick plants have a couple of different varieties that you’re likely to find in your local nursery, but my absolute favorite has to be the curly/rasta lipstick plant variety. How stunning is this one hanging in my living room?
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Brittany,
I stumbled upon your blog.
Wow! Your indoor plants are so beautiful. Your plant accessories are complementary and creative. I love indoor plants, but also have killed so many. 🙁
Your site has so much good information.
Thanks for sharing!
JP
Thank you so much for your kind words JP!!!