Highly popular in Victorian times as a house plant. They are also popular in hotel reception areas. Popular as indoor plants because they require virtually no light to thrive. Indeed, with these guys your worst enemy is sunlight. They seem to shrivel up should a stripe of sun cross their dark foliage... just like vampires... the only difference being they don’t drink blood :)
Well, I have been experimenting with these plants as outdoor candidates this year and they seem to be a lot hardier than one would expect. I have had a big chunky one (waaaay too heavy to drag into the house) sitting nicely on my back patio within a fat plastic pot enduring night-time temperatures as low as -5 so far without any noticeable foliage damage whatsoever.
Apparently they like dry Winters (which we never get in the NW UK) but their roots are so dense that i would be surprised if Winter rain had any real effect on generating root rot.
I must say that spiders love these guys. When i re-potted it in the late Summer I must have seen 200+ spiders run madly from it across the floor... only little ones though, thankfully!
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