Prayer plants or Maranta leuconeura are trending on Pinterest and tipped to be the next big thing, with their pink veins and undersides, they not only a splash of colour in their leaves from they provides a little punch to your interior but a fascinating characteristic that’s wholly unexpected – they move!!
Lovely plants to place on a high shelf, prayer plants tend to cascade over the pot and hang down, only to have the leaves raise upright at night time and fold together like hands in prayer.
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How to look after your prayer plant
- Place in plenty of indirect sunlight as this encourages them to close at night.
- Keep moist with warm water in summer, but don’t over water.
- Less water is needed in the winter months.
- Feed once a month with all-purpose fertiliser.
This article originally appeared on Home Beautiful.
