Indoor plants are almost all tropical and adapted to grow under 3 canopies of treetops. They work in our house because the tiny bit of sun coming in the window is good enough.

Being tropical, they need a fair bit of water and the chemicals in tap water are often too much. I use rainwater, but you can set your pitcher out for 24-hours and get good results.

The stuff you see growing in cracks outdoors is almost certainly local and adapted.

Choose plants that are native to your region. You will be surprised how well they do.

I always find this to be crazy with grass. It is so damn difficult to grow a nice lawn but grass randomly grows out of rocks in the woods.

People certainly are polishing this meme to a high sheen. Anyway, tell it to the pothos ivy.

Tbf, there's also philodendrons. That's basically potted kudzu. I think if you took a potted one and threw it out during the winter, it'd just grow right back in. Probably need goats or sheep or napalm to actually kill one. Or maybe be colorblind so you don't see it turning yellow when it needs water.

This should make us all very very afraid of what that water is doing to US!

(Especially if/when it is colored - last year my water became orange and started giving everyone I knew that drank it mouth soreness, I only wish I was kidding, and ofc it was traced to a corporation found illegally dumping toxic chemicals into the water reclamation systems, thus exposing the entire city to those effects. No, they never faced any legal consequences beyond the slightest slap on the wrist iirc, why would they? That is what finally tipped the scales and helped me realize: the USA is not a first-world nation anymore.)

Outdoor plants are all burly and manly and hefty, hefty, hefty. Inside plants are weak and wimpy, wimpy, wimpy.

I don't understand why my tomato plant doesn't do well indoors with a grow light.

I just left dirt in a pot after planting cherry tomatoes and parsley on my balcony, it magically grew flat parsley like crazy. I didn't even tend to it for a long time, still grows like a madman.

@The_Picard_Maneuver joke's on you (or them). I always water them with tap water.

well the chlorine in tap water is pretty bad for plants...

Much like humans

seems like yall have some horrible tap water

Plants outdoors don’t get water with nearly the amount of shit in it that tap water has.

Yes, even in Scotland.