Everyone is obsessed with indoor plants, and for a good reason. Bringing the greenery into your indoors helps boost your physical health and, to a greater extent, your emotional wellbeing.
A room filled with nature is a room filled with fresh air, happiness, and tranquility. You even seem to breathe easier, heal faster, and focus better when you have a healthy indoor garden. But what is the best way to give your home remodeling, better than incorporating plants in your home so that you can reap their benefits optimally? Here are five ways:
1. Hang the plants
Keeping your plants off the floor has more benefits than you would imagine. For starters, it is almost impossible to forget watering and taking care of your plants when they are almost at the level of your eye. They constantly grab your attention. Another advantage is that hanging plants are safe from pets and toddlers. That’s without forgetting how a hanging indoor garden helps you economize on floor space. There are 3 more ways you will maximize the benefits of your indoor plants like when you hang them:
- When you hang herbs in the kitchen, your fresh herbs will always be an arm-stretch away!
- Planting flowers and grasses on a vertical hanger that’s attached to your wall boosts your home’s texture and color. Your walls look and smell great all the time as when you propagate aloe vera it gives your wall better colors!
- A big beautiful hanging indoor garden also acts as wall art. Considering how expensive art can be, a planter mounted to the wall is the better alternative, any day! What’s more, you can change these plants any time whenever you want to revamp life in your home.
2. Grow a live moss carpet for your bathroom
The world is now more environmentally conscious than ever before. The collective goal for all environmentalists is to reduce our carbon footprints and play a part in building an eco-friendly society. You can play your part by bringing in a live moss carpet for your bathroom. Watering the moss is effortless because it depends on the water that drips off of your wet body when you step on it immediately you step out of the shower or bath. Simply put, these plants thrive by lowering moisture levels in your bathroom. The moss feels lovely and soft under the feet. What’s more, if you cannot afford to purchase one, you can always make your own by referring to a DIY tutorial.
3. Choose house plants that double as air filters
There are houseplants with a more superior filtering effect than others. Experts suggest that you will reap maximum benefits by placing at least one of these plants, like aglaonema varieties plant, per 100 square feet. Some of these plants include:
- Snake Plant: If you want to filter airborne toxins like formaldehyde, this is your ideal houseplant.
- Boston ferns: Arguably the greatest air purifier. These plants are also safe for your toddlers and pets, and they are quite beautiful.
- Peace Lily: If you need to filter benzene, formaldehyde, or trichloroethylene, just bring in these plants into your abode.
Note: These plants need grow lights to blossom and to be healthy. Invest in the best lights for optimal air filtering benefits.
4. Grow an indoor herb garden
Your indoor herb garden is a more affordable alternative to buying dried herbs. And because your indoor herbs are organic, pesticide-free, and non-GMO herbs, an indoor herb garden is your healthiest herbs source.
5. And some fragrance houseplants
A nice smelling house is a cozy and welcoming house. It helps you impress houseguests and makes you crave going back home after a long day at work. Fragrance houseplants are a better alternative to synthetic air fresheners. You don’t even need to light scented candles for fragrant, romantic evenings when you have indoor plants producing beautiful, natural smells. Some of the fragrant houseplants to try include:
- The gardenia plant: These plants love the outdoors more than indoors, but you can grow them indoors provided you give them proper care.
- Scented Geraniums: There is a wide variety of geraniums ranging from lemon, apricot, strawberry, apple, mint, name them!
- Lavender: Remember to expose this plant to lots of sunlight or if you have to use artificial light, choose high-quality grow lights.
There are endless ways of incorporating plant life into your indoors for optimal benefits. The bottom line is to always ensure that your plants are healthy. Water them sufficiently and expose them to all the light they need.