Green Your Home With Plants!
photo credit: thienzieyung
Indoor plants are a great way to “green” your home!
Plants are green because of the chlorophyll in their leaves, they use carbon dioxide from the air and give off oxygen. So if you want to improve your oxygen levels in your home – add some green plants to your home.
There are lots of different kinds of plants you can grow in your home, with lots of different light requirements. Some plants want direct sunlight and some can live in a corner only with indirect light. My Christmas cactus like my east window in my bedroom, where they get the morning sun, and it is cooler. The african violets are doing well in there as well as in my kitchen which has a west window.
If I have room, I even like to bring in my geraniums and let them bloom in the house. They like my west windows which get lots of light. I am trying to keep a gerbena alive in our basement, but it could use more light and warmth. Hopefully it will survive till it is warm enough to set it out again.
My palm plant now has 4 flower stems coming. They make a beautiful cream and purple flower, but they only last for 12 hours. This year I have the plant in my kitchen, so hopefully I will get to see the flowers when they open; there have been times in the past when I have missed seeing it open.
If you have a home that is more on the dry side, and you don’t have a “green thumb” try growing some cactus. If you forget to water them, they are much more tolerant of lack; but just don’t keep their “feet” wet.
So green up your home this year with plants!