Do you have plants in your home? I hope so. They provide beauty, soothing surroundings, serenity, and cleaner air.
With all the plants, both flowering and green, living in my yard and on my patio all summer and I must bring them indoors or they will freeze. I am fortunate to have some wonderful south facing windows where my flowering plants thrive and bloom most of the winter. It is cool and the sun shines brightly. They need both to continue to blossom.
On the other hand, my green plants like English Ivy, Dracaena, Aloe, Fichus, and my Date Palms like the darker corners of my living room and bedroom. They thrive best in filtered or indirect light and lighter watering. In return they perform a really great service in my home. It has been proven that indoor plants remove noxious gases, airborne molds, and other contaminates from the air.
It’s not always easy to find appropriate places for plants indoors, but it is well worth the effort to try. Often you will have to give up and discard something that just can’t grow in your indoor climate, but I always give it a chance. The very dry air in our northern homes in the winter makes it difficult to grow tropical type plants, but if you can provide a micro-climate for them you may be successful. Artificial lighting is also a great boon indoors. Some flowering plants are especially beautiful under artificial lights – African Violets is my particular favorite.
I hope you, too, can find a place for at least a few living plants in your home. They will reward you with beauty and fresher air.
