We want to feel life, air and love in our home. How do you bring that to you? Quite simply, with houseplants.
At some point, you’re done with all the series recommended by friends and newspapers. So it’s time to take up a new hobby. Houseplants are what pets were a few years ago. Almost a child substitute. A task for a few years that tests us to see whether we can keep a living being alive by paying attention to it. Plants are an intensive activity, and we need them all the more in the current lockdown. The more plants, the more time you need to invest. They are watered every few days. Soil is added from time to time. They are repotted in spring and can then be fertilized immediately to give the plants a further growth boost. The constant care keeps us on our toes.
Especially in the city, you feel that your home is filled with concrete, concrete and more concrete in the form of streets and houses. For many, real green spaces are a long way off. With your new favorite hobby, houseplants, you can bring nature into your home. Due to the current circumstances, we are forced to spend most of our somewhat dull everyday life within our own four walls. Not only is the ceiling slowly falling on our heads, the air at home is also becoming increasingly stuffy. Plants change our indoor climate. Their very existence improves the air in our rooms, allows us to breathe deeply and increases our well-being. It’s also fun to watch the plants grow. Seeing them grow bigger and bigger, producing new leaves, flowers and roots is a joy.
And another thing: if you’re sitting alone at home and miss contact with others, talking to your houseplants kills two birds with one stone. The green stuff supposedly grows all the better with encouragement, and we finally get rid of our worries.