For anyone that loves to fill their home with indoor plants but is running out of floor or table space, there's a whole section of your rooms that is still available to help you create the lush environment of your dreams: your ceilings.

With hanging plants, you can make the most of your vertical space, instantly add eye-level decor, and avoid tripping or knocking over an ill-placed planter. Ahead, find nine hanging houseplants to help surround yourself with all the greenery you deserve.

If there’s a plant that even brown thumbs can manage to care for, it’s the pothos. Pothos can thrive in various conditions, including low light (though bright, indirect light is better), and only requires occasional watering for its trailing vines to grow. There are different varieties, including ones with golden and silver-streaked leaves, and they propagate easily, so you can always give new plants to friends.

String of pearls is a vining succulent with round,pea-shaped leaves that elegantly hang over the sides of a pot as the name suggests. It grows quickly and fairly easily, making it a low-maintenance houseplant. Put it in a sunny spot in your home where it can get bright, indirect light, and like most succulents, it needs relatively infrequent watering (in fact, be careful not to overwater it).

English ivy is a stately plant that can climb or hang; the plant will grow upwards before cascading down. The leaves are distinct with three or five lobes and have gold edges to highlight their shape and give them an extra pop of color. It can be grown indoors or outside, with bright, indirect light, weekly watering, and a misting every now and then. 

While air plants themselves don’t hang, the fact that they don’t require soil means they can be placed almost anywhere in a room, such as in hanging terrariums. If you’re looking for a minimal, mess-free houseplant or two, air plants are it — they need a weekly misting, bright, indirect light, and a clear home to show them off.

A philodendron will reward you with heart-shaped leaves and long vines, even if you hang it in a corner or put it on a high shelf and forget about it for a minute. Give it indirect light (it can also tolerate low light) and water it every 1-2 weeks, and let it do its thing. It can even grow up to 10 feet in length, making it a plant with long-term potential.

For a unique and playful-looking succulent, go for Donkey’s Tail (or Burro’s Tail), which grows hanging stems packed with fleshy leaves. The bulbous leaves may be tempting to touch, but the stems are fairly fragile, so give it sun, water when the soil is dry, and admire your plant from afar. 

Who doesn’t want to fill their room with a little more love? String of hearts is a semi-succulent that does well in bright, indirect light, and can withstand a missed watering. It has purple vines and green, heart-shaped leaves that are sure to brighten up your space. In the spring and summer, it can also grow small, purple flowers.

Spider plants are as easy-going as their “messy hair, don’t care” aesthetic. They have long, thin stems that can grow baby plants (or spiderettes) on the ends, which you can use to propagate into more plants. Give a spider plant bright, indirect light, and water it when the soil is dry.

The bird’s nest fern is a great tropical addition to any home that could use livening up. The bright green, wavy fronds sprout out from the middle of the plant, which resembles a bird’s nest, and as the fronds grow, they arch in dramatic fashion. The fern does well with medium to bright indirect light and watering every 1-2 weeks, but as a tropical plant, it does prefer more humid conditions (for example, hanging in a bathroom).