Teeny indoor plants we acquired over twenty years ago have grown taller than we are now; others we’ve subdivided and shared. They provide beautiful visual transition of nature from inside to outside, color, texture, and cool foliage. They also provide a lot of advantages:
- Most gobble up our C02 exhalation and convert it back to oxygen during the day, some at night.
- Provide health benefits galore.
- Improve happiness, mental health, productivity, reduce stress.
- Temper humidity in the house, soothing dry skin, coughs, and colds.
- Introduce responsibility to kids.
- Aloe soothes burns from the kitchen or sun.
- Carnivorous plants attract and eat fruit flies, fungus gnats, even the occasional house fly.
Beware: some indoor plants are toxic to people and pets.
Many are originally from the tropics, so they thrive on different amounts of water, sunlight, and fertilizer.
Scientists are learning more about their resilience and sentience.
Planetarily,
Laura & Gil
Our friends Laura & Gil Richardson are, in their own words, “imperfect” but they are much further down this Planetarian path than anyone I know. They are a treasure trove of sustainable living inspiration and we’ve asked them to share one simple swap per week that they’ve made (and the products they love) in hopes it might inspire you to make them, too.
