Generating more spider plants is relatively easy. Once your plant is producing the flowing overhangs of baby spider plants, you can cut them loose from the mother, being careful to leave a little bit of the main vine still attached to the baby. Place the baby plant in a small pot with potting soil and moisten the soil. Keep the soil moist and you will soon have another spider plant.

Spider plants make great gifts to those inexperienced or wanting to start with indoor house plants. I have often given away many of my spider babies as holiday gifts or get-well gifts. Just dress up the pot with some ribbon. I also suggest making a small card for the new owner, with instructions on how to keep it healthy.

Cats love spider plants as well, but the leaves don't sit well in their tummies! One method I use to keep cats away from these plants, or any other indoor plant, is to put a tall stake in the plant container and wrap some mesh (found in the sewing department of a chain store, like Walmart) over the stake and tie at the underside of the pot. If you want the plant to sit better, I suggest using a giant rubber band and wrap the base of the pit with the mesh and the rubber band. Watering is still easy to do as you can pour right through the mesh. Your cats don't have access to the plant and the spider plant has room to grow with the tall stake in place.

I have found three different varieties of the spider plant and not all nurseries have them. There is one spider plant that is totally green, the next is white in the center of the leaf and green on the edge, and the last spider variation is green in the middle of the leaf with white on the edges. It may seem a bit extravagant to have three varieties, but they look spectacular combined in a pot together or in an arrangement of multiple plants.

Spider plants are excellent for hanging outdoors in the shade, too! I have often planted my babies in a hanging pot on the porch or in a tree, and by the end of the season they have grown tremendously, often with thousands of little baby spider plants.

Spider plants are a joy in every household, with either a green thumb or a brown thumb to plant them! They make excellent gifts and wonderful starter plants for the young and the old. I strongly suggest every person interested in household plants to check out the Spider plant. Bushy and sweeping when they are healthy, they add excellent flowing greenery for any room in your home.