Indoor plants can bring life and freshness into your house and make it feel like a home. They serve as a terrific focal point for the living area and provide another reason to enjoy your home. Moreover, you will feel success and fulfillment as you watch your plants grow and thrive, like a parent watching their child. For many, that feeling is soothing and can help relieve anxiety and other mental issues. So, now that we have covered most of the benefits of having plants inside the home, let’s focus on the fundamental question: how can you create a plant-loving home?
Assess The Environment
If you’re a beginner at indoor gardening, the first thing you need to do to create a plant-loving home is to look at your environment. Ask yourself a few simple questions to determine whether the conditions are right to grow plants and which plants can thrive in those conditions.
Is There Enough Light?
As you know, plants require light to photosynthesize. The best way to provide adequate lighting to your plants is to put them near a window with a southern or western orientation. If you have moved to a new home and don’t know which areas get the most sunshine, you will need to experiment in the beginning.
Once you first arrange your plants, you can move them from time to time to see what place best suits them. If starting from scratch, this is the best approach to determine a perfect location for your new plants. Once you have found it, you should try to keep them in the same spot for as long as possible. Houseplants don’t like to be moved around, and they will have trouble adapting to the changing conditions.
If you don’t have available space near your windows or enough windows in your home, there are other ways you can make sure your plants get enough light. One of them is investing in LED Grow lights which mirror the sunlight and provide your plants with the kind of light they need.
What’s The Temperature?
Most plants can’t survive, let alone thrive, in places that are either too hot or too cold. During the day, most plants require a temperature range of 65°F to 75°F. This changes at night when you can allow the temperature to drop a few degrees. If the temperature gets too high, you should consider using a fan or air conditioner to get the desired temperature.
What’s The Humidity Situation?
The last condition that can affect your plants is the humidity in your home. Most plants require around 40% humidity because they lose moisture when they breathe. When the air is dry, this loss is pretty high. And even when you water them, the water they eat through their roots is often insufficient, causing the plants to wilt. To achieve the perfect 40% humidity, you may need to invest in a home humidifier.
Be Creative
When you’re setting up your indoor garden, the possibilities are endless. You can add benches or shelves to make a small plant corner inside your home. You can experiment with different types of pots. Moreover, you can mix your plants with household objects and decorations such as frames and candles. Or, you can use plant hangers to construct a hanging garden. These look especially nice if you have a high ceiling or bare walls that need that pop of green. The only downside to a hanging garden is that you’ll probably need a ladder since it can get more difficult to clean these plants or water them regularly.
Go For Variety
The fundamental principle of any urban jungle is to imitate nature’s remarkable diversity of species, sizes, shapes, and colors. That’s why variety is so important. The first stage in building your home jungle is to combine plants of various sizes. For example, purchase a large one that can be placed on the floor and mix it with some smaller ones. Your indoor garden will become monotonous if you use the same textures, such as all tiny leaves, huge leaves, or thorny plants. However, if you go for a variety, don’t forget to research each plant species to find out how much water and light they each need.
Use Clean & Consistent Water
Water is one of the most critical elements for plants. You must continually offer clean water to your plants to regulate fertilizers and nutrients. You can use a RO water system to deal with iron, bacteria, and chlorine in your indoor garden. The reverse osmosis system uses the RO membrane to dissolve solids like fluoride and arsenic. Furthermore, a RO system’s carbon filters remove undesirable taste, odor, and chlorine from the water, while its sediment filter eliminates debris.
Pick the Perfect Plants for Each Room
If you want to get a plant that requires a high humidity level but you don’t want to invest in a humidifier, there’s a simple solution: put that plant in your bathroom. Plants in bathrooms are not uncommon precisely due to the humidity of a bathroom. Moreover, plants can look great in bathrooms and give them a beautifully modern and homey look.
On the other hand, you can add small plants like cacti and succulents to the shelves of your kitchen to brighten up the place. These plants don’t require special attention or humidity and can survive almost everywhere.
Create a Plant-Loving Home and Enjoy It
Indoor gardens have become a popular pastime in metropolitan areas for a good reason. Most people enjoy recreating a jungly ambiance indoors for various reasons, including retaining a connection to nature and dazzling guests with elegant specimens. However, if you want to keep your valuable plants alive for a long time, you need to start learning about plant care as soon as possible and create a plant-loving home that fulfills their needs.
Cecelia O’Moore is an experienced copywriter working for State to State Move with a passion for interior design. Aside from her job, she’s also a dog mom and a plant mom. Currently, she lives in Charlotte with her dog Coco.
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Variety of green leaf plants on a floor
A mixture of potted plants
Green plants in clay pots