Health and Houseplants

 

I grew up in a house with trailing spider plants, busy lizzies and goodness knows what.

One house we rented had a resident cheese plant so big it grew along the ceiling. It was a bit nerve wracking trying to keep that alive!

Anyway, I resisted having houseplants in our new home. I concentrated on working in the garden but I guess I missed the house plants.

So, after my daughters started to buy all the trendy succulents and had been encouraged by their Grandpa to try cactii, I finally bought some and … I’m loving them.

 

There’s a calmness about the shades of green, a generosity in the way the leaves open out to the world.

What a delight to look at the flower on this Peace Lily.

House plants are said to have many benefits to human health.

One of them is that we exhale carbon dioxide and they use it up in photosynthesis and give us more oxygen.

 

 

Another is better memory retention – now, I just have to get into the way of remembering to water them!

Do you have a favourite house plant you would recommend?