Houseplant Appreciation Day - Ep10 Show Notes:

Today’s featured holiday, started by the Gardener’s Network, is, “Houseplant Appreciation Day”!

The end of year holidays are behind us. Decorations are all back in their appointment storage containers and - if you observe Christmas and put up a real tree - the Christmas tree needles are all vacuumed up.

Those decorations certainly made your home look festive, but things are looking a touch barren and sparse. What to do?

How about sprucing your living space up with a few new plants and tending to any existing plants that may have been forgotten during the busy holiday season.

Start by giving your existing plants some fertilizer as a January gift. Ensure your plants are properly watered and otherwise tended to. They may be feeling a touch ignored over the holidays.

Now it’s off to the store to purchase some new plants. Orchids are a great addition along with other house plants such as Philodendron and Dracaena.

Philodendrons are an easy to care for vinnining houseplants that can tolerate a wide variety of conditions, even low-light levels. Dracaenas are also low-light tolerant houseplants. While all houseplants clean the air through the process of photosynthesis, Dracaenas are super hero air cleaners that will help keep your indoor environment healthier.

Plants offer an array of health and emotional benefits. What are some of those benefits?

Plants absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. This is just the opposite of humans who inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.

Plants can clean the air of pollutants including reducing concentrations of benzene and nitrogen dioxide.

Plants increase the relative humidity in your home. Winter is notoriously dry, creating alligator skin and uncomfortable breathing. Plants can help increase humidity, which is a good thing during the dry winter months.

Bottom line: the more plants, the healthier your environment.

Giving plants as gifts to children and seniors offer emotional benefits. Children learn responsibility and how to care for their plants.

To many seniors feel they have no purpose in life. Caring for plants helps give lonely seniors a sense of purpose. If you have children and aging parents, why not encourage them to work together caring for plants?

And let’s remember it simply feels good to touch plants, the soil, and fuss over each individual plant. I have it on good authority that when you talk to your plants, they will answer back in wondrous and magical ways.

For these and so many other reasons, I encourage you to celebrate National House Plant Appreciation Day.

Tune into tomorrow’s show to learn about, "National Human Trafficking Awareness Day".

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This is your host, Stephen Carter, reminding you, this day is special, and so are you. Have fun, smile, and say a few kind words to your houseplants! They’ll work extra hard to make your home healthier and happier.