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How to Grow an Indoor Plant Successfully

          Look around your room or office. Has it ever occurred to you to get rid of a dull and lifeless arrangement? If so, why not try out some houseplants as the new decorations, which can bring you some healthy advantages. According to one article from National Broadcasting Company (known as NBC), the greenery of inner plants can make people feel calm and relaxed. Despite the tranquillity in mind, indoor plants are also able to bring us physical advantages. Based on the National and Space Administration (NASA) Clean Air Study (1989), it is said that indoor plants enable to purify the indoor air by filtering the toxins. To grow a houseplant successfully involves the following few steps.

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Pic1. Peace Lily

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Pic2. English Ivy

           The first phase plays the most important role: doing research. Although easier to grow than the normal plants, inner plants still vary from one another. For instance, the space an inner plant would take differs due to the type of greenery. It might be a bad choice to have a Peace Lily, which can grow to the height of approximately 1.5 m (Pic.1), on your desk. Therefore, doing sufficient research on the distinct features lain in different types of indoor plants is crucial. By doing enough study, one can not only avoid an awkward situation mentioned above, but also benefit from different advantages that distinct houseplants bring. The ability of cleaning the air should be taken into consideration, if your reason for growing indoor plants is to get some health pros from them. English Ivy (Pic.2) and Red-Edged Dracaena have been proven by NASA to be able to purify the toxins in the air, which might be on your list. After your research, you will make up your mind on a specific plant which meets your request and the next step is to decide where you should put it.

           After deciding which indoor plant you like to have, it is your responsibility to find or create a friendly environment for your new green company. Different kinds of houseplants have their own suitable tendencies toward surrounding factors. Generally speaking, the greeneries prefer a place where air circulates well. However, when it comes to lightness, types of plants have distinct requirements. To illustrate, a foliage plant, like Devil Ivy (Pic.3), doesn’t demand the same amount of brightness as a cactus or it would have some sunburn on its leaves. As a result, you need to own the comprehensive knowledge of the environment of your plant and this emphasizes how important the first step-doing research-is. If you get every element of the living place for your plant settled, what you have to do next is to purchase a houseplant.

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Pic3. Devil Ivy

          One can merely drive to a garden shop to buy an indoor plant. Or, the distance to a shop, as for you, is too far to reach. If so, with a few clicks on your computer, a living plant is ready to deliver to your front door, thanks to the advancement of the internet and technology.

           Finally, you have an inner plant in your hands. The right methods for taking care of it decide whether it could thrive successfully. The timing for watering the houseplant is vital. The most common reason for indoor plants’ death lies in overwatering or underwatering. One easy way to tell when one should water your plant is to test whether the soil is moist or not. If you would like to use fertilizers for your houseplant, be cautious about the micronutrient in them and the amount you put. Pests are also something one should be mindful to.

            To sum up, one who would like to have a living plant as a company is required to do sufficient research on an inner plant in his/her mind at the very beginning and then create an appropriate space for the chosen greenery before obtaining the plant. However, the way for nourishing the houseplant determines how well and how long it can keep company with you, so be careful of the watering timing and amount. Due to different characters an indoor plant might have, people who want to grow one need to do enough research on this natural décor. If you put more efforts in doing research, you would have more opportunities to have a healthy green company. The green company can not only provide you a clean surrounding but boost you up while you are getting worn by your academics or work.

REFERENCE

 

  1. Why Indoor Plants Make You Feel Better by Sophie Lee (2017). Retrieved from https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/indoor-plants-can-instantly-boost-your-health-happiness-ncna781806?fbclid=IwAR14Nee58HdGUcyn3oQGyEo2Rilq6OIersoGxm7gAf_7kb0itVToh0jCEpI

  2. The Ultimate Guide to Indoor Plants by Anna Reyes (2018). Retrieved from https://www.ambius.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-indoor-plants/?fbclid=IwAR3yN52JkoEOZRqE40BdtWa3MQ787W80G-b35LnngpJ_ORBEyjsO-tsUP60

  3. Plot Twist: These 15 Low-Light Indoor Plants Actually Crave Dark Corners by Gabrielle Savoie (2019). Retrieved from https://www.mydomaine.com/low-light-indoor-plants

  4. Interior Landscape Plants for Indoor Air Pollution Abatement by Anne Johnson and Keith Bounds (1989). Retrieved from https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930073077.pdf

  5. The Best Fertilizers for All Types of Plants, According to Experts by Karen Iorio Adelson (2019). Retrieved from http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-fertilizers-for-houseplants.html?fbclid=IwAR1qekjsA5MF7p4KPYz6McuyWvhvBjLdg1RRvendWwA5A4Dcx9GUXODgrKg

  6. Pic. 1 : Retrieved from https://www.avasflowers.net/product/peace-lily-plant

  7. Pic. 2 : Retrieved from https://mashtalegypt.com/product/english-ivy/

  8. Pic. 3 : Retrieved from http://www.asterandivy.com.au/product/devils-ivy/

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