Indoor Gardening

5 Compelling Reasons to Bring Your Addiction Indoors

Air quality is big news these days.

Companies provide us with green household cleaners and natural fiber clothing. We have stopped using aerosol cans, we’re recycling like crazy and we buy organic food. It’s a better-late-than-never approach to prevent pollutants and toxins from entering the atmosphere, our personal environment and, ultimately, our bodies.

All good stuff, but what about the chemicals and toxins we have been sharing our homes with for years and aren’t planning on kicking out any time soon?
Houseplants, the original air-purifiers, are natures answer to indoor air pollution.

1. Houseplants create a healthier environment by absorbing chemicals from building materials that make up your home, hydrocarbons from furniture and detergents as well as filtering allergens from the air.

Houseplants can remove eighty-seven percent of air toxins in twenty-four hours by absorbing them and giving off precious life-giving oxygen. Toxins like Formaldehyde, Xylene, Benzene, Acetone, Chloroform and Trichloroethylene that come from adhesives, caulking compounds, paints, particle board, stains and varnishes. Other offenders that put off harmful chemicals are tobacco smoke, detergents, ceiling tiles, electro-photographic printers, carpeting and other floor coverings.


2. According to current scientific research, caring for plants has measurable physical and mental benefits.
Therapeutic outdoor gardens have been proven by the American Horticultural Association to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, promote healing and reduce depression. Houseplants raise humidity levels for a more oxygen - rich environment. For this very reason, productivity has been proven to increase in the workplace. What better place to produce these benefits than inside our homes?

3. Beautification of the home.
Think houseplants went out with macramé hangers and long side burns? Think again. Houseplants have been adding the finishing touch, and that accent color to homes since the seventeenth century. They bring the warmth that can link the bridge from “house” to “home”.

4. Incredible variety.
There are houseplants to suit any location, décor or personality. There are wonderfully textured plants, flowering plants, plants to perfume your room, plants for bright light to dark corners.

5. We can always use one more excuse to haunt a nursery, right?

Top Toxin Removers

Boston fern
Florist's Mum
Gerbera Daisy
Dwarf Date Palm
Bamboo Palm
English Ivy
Rubber Plant Weeping Fig
Corn Plant
Peace Lily
Dumb Cane
Weeping Fig
Schefflera
Dendrobium Orchid
Spider Plant