If you don’t have a green thumb or are fed up with overwatering your plants and looking for specimens that handle never mind overwatering, here are the best Houseplants that Literally Need No Drainage!

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Houseplants that Literally Need No Drainage

1. Rough Horsetail

Botanical Name: Equisetum Hyemale

Also known as scouring rush horsetail and rough horsetail, this herbaceous vascular plant is primarily found in wetlands and streams. This plant needs no drainage as it adapts to saturated mucky soils.

2. Lucky Bamboo

Botanical Name: Dracaena sanderiana

This amazing lucky bamboo plant is the easiest to grow and needs no drainage at all you can grow it in decorative pots and vases of your choice. This is surely one of the best plants that grow without drainage.

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3. Water Hyacinth

Botanical Name: Eichhornia crassipes

This aquatic weed can be an interesting plant indoors or in your balcony garden that receives some direct light. Float it in a wide vase and remove some growth from time to time if it populates the container.

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4. Cyperus Umbrella Plant

Botanical Name: Cyperus alternifolius

This plant loves to grow naturally in swampy places. Provide it in boggy conditions and grow in a pot without drainage with roots submerged in saturated soil.

5. Water Lettuce

Botanical Name: Pistia stratiotes

You can grow water lettuce in ponds, water gardens, or in containers and terrariums indoors and outdoors. The bottom part does not need to be buried under the soil as roots are free-floating. Use soft to moderately hard water and keep it at a well-lit spot.

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6. Water Lily

Botanical Name: Nymphaea

This jewel of the aquatic world produces flowers in blue, yellow, purple, white, pink, orange, and red hues. You can grow water lilies indoors in deep containers or small aquariums.

Check out Miniature Water Lily Varieties for a Container Water Garden here

7. Houseplant Cuttings

Cuttings of houseplants like pothos, philodendrons, coleus, ivy, African violet, and begonia do remarkably well in a vase of water where you never have to worry about drainage ever!

Here are the best plant cuttings that look spectacular in vases

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