Easy to Grow Tropical House Plants
My love for tropical house plants began a long time ago as a teenager in high school. I took two years of horticulture, which fortunately included lots of “hands on” learning in a greenhouse as well as the classroom. I was hooked for life! I worked in a
garden center’s greenhouse caring for their tropical house plants for a while, then became a Tropical Plant Care Technician for about ten years. We need to keep in mind that tropical house plants were never intended to live in a house! That is not their natural environment and although they will not take care of themselves, some plants require very little maintenance.
Now with that being said, it is well worth the effort to keep even a few live plants in your home to benefit the interior air quality. Plants give off life sustaining oxygen while taking in carbon dioxide and other pollutants. It would serve us well to remember that without plants and trees on earth we wouldn’t have oxygen and without oxygen, well; you get the picture! Tropical plants grown in our homes are similar to little air purifiers. Silk greenery can’t do that! I admit I do have a few artificial tropical plants, but only for difficult to reach places or for those areas that plants would not be able to survive. Tropical plants are also aesthetically pleasing and become part of good design for our homes, no matter how contemporary or traditional our interiors may be.
Now with that being said, it is well worth the effort to keep even a few live plants in your home to benefit the interior air quality. Plants give off life sustaining oxygen while taking in carbon dioxide and other pollutants. It would serve us well to remember that without plants and trees on earth we wouldn’t have oxygen and without oxygen, well; you get the picture! Tropical plants grown in our homes are similar to little air purifiers. Silk greenery can’t do that! I admit I do have a few artificial tropical plants, but only for difficult to reach places or for those areas that plants would not be able to survive. Tropical plants are also aesthetically pleasing and become part of good design for our homes, no matter how contemporary or traditional our interiors may be.
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