Project Two

The Why

Plants have become one of my favorite things to keep in my environment around me. There are many benefits for having plants in the spaces that you spend time in through out your days. While I am not a master gardener, I have learned alot about the benefits for plants and I want to share them with you!

Benefits of Indoor Plants

There are several benefits for having houseplants (or plants that are inside most of the year), here are some of those benefits:

Stress Reduction: interacting with and caring for plants actively reduces blood pressure and your body's stress response.
Cognitive Preformance: adding plants (and greenery) into your spaces helps improve focus, memory, and productivity.
Enchanced Healing: hospital patients with indoor plants in their rooms report a reduced need for pain medication and faster recovery times.

Increased Humidity: plants release moisture vapor, which helps soothe dry airways, reduces dust, and prevents dry skin.
Pollutant Reduction: acting as nautral air purifers, certain plants remove the polluants in the air by absorbing airborne toxins and mold spores.
More Oxygen: plants absorb carbon dixoide and release oxygen, which helps reduce drowsiness and headaches

Increased Humidity: plants release moisture vapor, which helps soothe dry airways, reduces dust, and prevents dry skin.
Pollutant Reduction: acting as nautral air purifers, certain plants remove the polluants in the air by absorbing airborne toxins and mold spores.
More Oxygen: plants absorb carbon dixoide and release oxygen, which helps reduce drowsiness and headaches

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Additional Resources

If you want to dig more into different studies reguarding the benefits of having indoor plants your spaces around you, I recommend reading these studies from NASA:

Toxin-Eating Plants

In this study from NASA they focused on specific plants that help reduce toxins in homes and indoor environemnts.

Toxin-Eating Plant Study

Breath of Fresh Air

Check out this study from NASA titled NASA Plant Research Offers a Breath of Fresh Air. Focusing on the further studing the impact of plants on clean air.

Breath of Fresh Air Study

If you have pets that are anything like mine, I have to be exteremly careful about what plants I put in my house because they eat them.

ASCPA Dog Friendly Plants

This list is geared towards dog owners from the ASCPA containing a list of both toxic and non-toxic plants.

ASPCA Dog List

ASCPA Cat Friendly Plants

This list is geared towards cat owners from the ASCPA containing a list of both toxic and non-toxic plants.

ASPCA Cat List