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: They might smell funky, but they never stop flowering. 
• Wild iris
• Psychotria capensis: These are small evergreen shrubby bushes with different plant colours.
• Mother-in-law's tongue
• Nisturshins: These are hardy, edible plants with vibrant, peppery-flavoured flowers and leaves that are commonly used in salads.
• Tecameria/Cape Honeysuckle: It is a hardy, fast-growing, flowering shrub or tree with vibrant, trumpet-shaped flowers in shades of orange, red, yellow, and salmon. 
• Plumbago plants: it's a scrambling shrub that grows in scrub and thicket. The new growth is bright green, darker when mature.
• Spekboom: These succulents commonly have a reddish stem and green leaves, but a variegated cultivar is often seen in cultivation
• Salvia: Especially popular with those who garden for pleasure, mainly because they are reliable plants which are easy to grow and typically found along beaches.

"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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