If you are also one of those who feel dramatic after bidding farewell to Christmas trees in holidays, Houseplant Appreciation Day might prove to be a savior in your life.
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Date of Houseplant Appreciation Day Observance
10th of January.
History of Houseplant Appreciation Day
Only Rich People Planted the Plants
What if someone says to you that plants are for rich people only, and not for the ordinary ones?
Considering the uses and benefits of the plants, they are worthy to be categorized with the jewels but thanks to God that we belong to a blessed generation as plants are accessible to all of us.
You can find different types of plants in almost every home today. But do you know that earlier during 500 BC, plants were only for rich people. They used to decorate the large estates of wealthy families.
Gone are the days when only rich people had the privilege to keep the house plants
Nowadays they enhance the glory of the houses of all, regardless the status or wealth.
The Garden of Eden
Sir Hugh Plant, a fantabulous agricultural expert penned about the possibilities of greenhouses and conservatories in his book entitled “The Garden of Eden”. It got published in 1952 to bring in the new air of ideas.
Plants across the Ocean
In 1936, the modern ‘Terrarium’ came up with the classic idea of transporting the plants across the Ocean. It brought a massive change and revolution in the transportation of the plans.
The Craze for Plants
The houseplant fad raised to new levels when the trend of faux plants came into existence.
During the 1990s, faux plants and flowering orchids became a new fashion.
Houseplant Appreciation Day Celebration
Simply, Decorate Your Home with Houseplants
There couldn't be a better idea of celebrating Houseplant Appreciation Day than sharing some space of your home with some new plants.
Introducing your home with some new house plants is perhaps the most authentic way to appreciate them on House plant appreciation day.
Pick up some green companions to your sweet home and experience yourself that how they brighten up your every morning.
If they have been accompanying you already for a long back, it’s the perfect opportunity to explore a new place for them in your home. Don’t forget to place them at a place where they can soak some light and fresh air to breathe.
Explore a Plant Nursery
How about visiting the nursery and adopting a baby plant. Visit a grocery store and invest in your sweet home. You might also take some suggestions from the expert ones in the field to choose the perfect one for your house.
If gardening or plantation is not your forte, then also, the nursery is the best place to trigger your skillful nerve for learning about it.
You must have roamed around and explored many shops for garments even when you are not in the right mood or budget for buying one.
Ditch your mood and excuses for going to a nursery this time and experience how the window shopping of plants goes in your case.
Embellish Your Houseplants
Who says the decorations can take place in only the festive seasons? Festivity brings happiness and vice versa. Nobody has ever said that you need festivals or a specific reason to celebrate.
If you have got peace of mind, joy in heart, and stability in mood, it is a great reason for celebration.
The kind of benefits our plants and greenery give to us, it makes them worthy of celebrating.
If you are still skeptical about the wonderfulness of plants, experience that how you feel even during the process of bringing plants to your home.
Embellish your home by decorating the house plants and see how your mood perks up within seconds during the process itself.
- Discover an eye-catching place.
- It’s time to go for the deep cleaning. Let that place get rid of the dirt from its every corner and the pore.
- Shower the leaves to let them breathe.
- Adorn the study plans with decoratives. Let your plants flaunt their ornaments and decorative beads.
- If you have got non-edible plants, how about embellishing their branches with glitter, crepe paper, tinsel, or ribbons?
If you are very sensitive about your plants:
- Let your soil pot gleam with a makeover.
- Remove its dust and dirt and get it ready for the paint. Let those old plants-holders feel some newness in their getup.
- Gather some soil for making a base of your base, instead of dropping in this time. Explore your creativity and designing skills by using some colorful powder for the decoration.
- Cheer yourself up by feeling the vibes of your nursery class when you loved the colors. Revisit your primary class and let your drawing skills guide your hands for trying some amazing designs
- Let some colorful light-bulbs add to their beauty and overall vibrance.
- Don’t forget to take a selfie with such a wonderful and vibrant background behind you and share them with your beloved ones. Experience how it makes your day by surrounding you with compliments for your creative skills.
Why is Houseplant Appreciation Day Celebrated?
Plants Are the Source of Oxygen
“We are not charged for the plants; perhaps because they are priceless.”
What plants give us is not just oxygen or food. They indeed provide us life which is the most precious thing in this world.
All the living creatures (humans, animals, or birds) inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Plants are the only ones who use our inhaled carbon dioxide along with sunlight, air, and other products for their energy and release oxygen in the air.
Thus they are double beneficial. They not only give us oxygen but also take the carbon dioxide gas that we exhale.
One Houseplant, Multiple Usage
Seeing greenery around yourself is an incomparable feel-good experience. There is something good about the green color that we love the plants like anything. However, if you choose an edible plant to grow in your home, it adds more reasons to be joyous about it.
There is a range of home-grown plants from small helps to citrus trees to become a proud member of your family. Other than saving money, you’re also going to save your efforts for going out to purchase them. Utilizing fruits, vegetables, or herbs that have tended in your own home is a million-bucks of experience.
Even if you go for a non-edible plant-like Aloe vera, it is also something that you can flaunt because of its number of benefits such as:
- If snapped and squeezed
- If squeezed onto scraps, sunburnt skin, and minor burns, It helps in recovery.
- Do you know it can be used as a natural makeup remover as well for your eyes?
- One can also try it as a shaving cream.
- It is beneficial to cure bad breath also.
Yes, a single houseplant can also be used for multiple purposes and make you feel proud of your invested time.
They Are the Natural Refreshers
Do you know that other than oxygen, plants add something else too in the air? We all have heard about the oxygen advantage of plants many times, but do you know that plants also add humidity into the air?
Plants beautifully refresh and condition the air. The level of humidity that they produce depends on their type. Tropical plants produce more humidity than desert plants.
As far as the amount of moisture is concerned, different temperate plants give distinguished results.
The Melting Fragrance
Many plants and flowers work as a scent to the air. When the particles of their fragrance melt in the air, they play balm to the soul.
An Appeal
Plants are one of the most beautiful aspects of nature. Dear revival properties work wonders for all our senses. We smell their fragrance, eat like food or herb, use their medicinal properties, watch their beauty, or admire their green color around, we can’t imagine our lives without them.
Let more and more plants have an opportunity to bloom in your backyard, room, or kitchen on this Houseplant Appreciation Day.
Plants are our green-buddies; let’s nurture them, indeed with them!
How to Appreciate Plants on the Houseplant Appreciation Day?
Let Your Words Float in the Air
Speak your good words out about the numerous benefits of growing plants around you.
Inspire!
Choose at least one of your friends, cousins, or other family members and inspire them for planting plants nearby their living area. Let them also make the most of this beautiful gift of nature.
Be a Learner!
You can also show your gratitude towards them by knowing more about each and every plant in your home. Google about them and know their needs. Know how much water, sunlight, or fertilizer they require; feed them as per that.
Take a Pledge!
Saw some seeds and let at least one plant grow because of you on this planet every year.
If you are skeptical about fulfilling your pledge, be determined in your heart that you will do it.
An Idea for the Lazy Spines
If you do not find enough time to give them your care, how about embellishing your desk with a low-maintenance cactus?
Go on Social Platform
Sometimes sheer preaching doesn’t work. Share good pics of your plans on social networking platforms and let people see what they have been missing in their homes.
Let people gather some courage, motivation, and passion for going green by seeing greenery witnessing greenery in your shared images of a wonderful garden area.
