Plants are ornaments for the rooms in which you live. Of course, you enjoy them just for themselves, but you can increase your plea sure by selecting plants and placing them where they will be handsome room accents_the finishing touches to a decorating plan.

Perhaps you seek boldness of form or leaf pattern as a contrast to neutral backgrounds and solid colors. Or maybe color to reinforce the hues used in other furnishings is an important consideration. You may even wish to use a group of plants as a major decorative feature. Whatever you want done decoratively, there are plants to do it for you.

Depending on the size and style of the particular room, its colors, and the space available, consider whether you want to mass a number of plants in one impressive grouping or spotlight a single plant in a key location that makes it a focus of interest.

Think, too, in terms of scale. To decorate a large expanse of plain wall, you need a plant or group of plants large enough to blot out the empty look, but not so large that the once-empty wall seems overfilled.

Flowering plants in a kaleidoscope of hues can be the exclamation point in rooms that are furnished largely with furniture and accessories in neutral tones. Brilliant red azaleas, vivid yellow tulips, and pale blue hyacinths are excellent attention getters in a room of beige or a quiet white. No matter what type of setting you may have, nothing’s a more effective color cure in the cold, winter months than a window garden full of bright, blooming plants.

But unless you can supply a location similar to the sun-filled corner pictured across the page (or have a home greenhouse), you’ll probably have to settle for fewer plants in bloom and expand their impact by setting them among sturdy foliage plants.

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