Love plants but don't have a green thumb? Consider these 'unkillable' plants for your home

Not everyone has a green thumb, but that doesn’t mean your home has to go without greenery.

Horticulturalist Cherise Viljoen suggests a range of low-maintenance, indigenous plants that are nearly impossible to kill - perfect for busy homeowners or first-time gardeners.

• Plectranthus neochilus (lobster bush)
• Wild iris
• Psychotria capensis (black bird-berry)
• Mother-in-Laws tongue
• Tecomaria capensis (Cape Honeysuckle)
• Plumbago auriculate (Cape Leadwort)
• Agapanthus (African Lily)
• Bougainvillea (paper flower)
• Dietes bicolor (African Iris)
• Dietes grandiflora (large wild Iris)
• Felecia spp (wild aster) 
• Hypoestes aristata (ribbon bush)
• Origanum majorana  (marjoram)
• Tropaeolum majus (nasturtium)
• Portulacaria afra (Spekboom)
• Salvia africana-lutea (bruin salie)
• Searsia crenata, glauca, lucida (crowberry, currant bush)
• Strelitzia spp. (crane flower)
• Watsonia spp. (Bugle Lily)

"Once these plants are in the ground, you really can't kill them," says Viljoen.

Cherise Viljoen of Cherish Plants in conversation with Pippa Hudson.

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