Residential House Plant Care Services in Southern California

Plants to Rescue Your Home

The good news is that a Residential indoor plant service can remove VOCs 24/7 by absorbing and degrading air pollutants and releasing oxygen into the air as part of the photosynthetic process. Plants included with a residential indoor plant service are notoriously adept at absorbing gases through pores on the surface of their leaves. It’s this skill that facilitates photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert light energy and carbon dioxide into chemical energy to fuel their growth. Plants can also help manage carbon dioxide levels. Various research groups have analyzed the effect of indoor plants on air quality in workplaces and found that in offices with plants, CO2 levels reduced by about 10 percent in an air-conditioned building and 25 percent in a building without air-conditioning.

What Scientists Say

Scientists studying the air-purification capacities of indoor plants have found that plants can absorb many other gases in addition to carbon dioxide, including a long list of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Benzene (found in some plastics, fabrics, pesticides and cigarette smoke) and formaldehyde (found in some cosmetics, dish detergent, fabric softener, and carpet cleaner) are examples of common indoor VOCs that plants help eliminate and help with allergy symptoms.

Here is How Plants Purify The Air

You don’t need a forest. Just one plant can help improve indoor air quality. Just one plant in a room is fine; a single plants capacity to remove pollutants is absolutely phenomenal. VOC levels in most dwellings and workplaces can contribute to sick building syndrome, which has been associated with headaches, dry eyes, nose and throat, a woozy-head feeling and nausea. Researchers have found that plants can help to reduce the amount of sick leave people take. An indoor plant’s ability to remove these harmful compounds from the air is an example of phytoremediation, which is the use of any plant — indoors or out — to mitigate pollution in air, soil or water.

Residential Indoor Plants

Residential indoor plants remove pollutants from the air by absorbing these gases through their leaves and roots. The microorganisms that live in the soil of potted plants also play an instrumental role in neutralizing VOCs and other pollutants. Some plants may actually not only remove pollutant but also improve air quality. One such example is the peace lily that absorbs benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene. Another example is the Dracaena Massangeana, or corn plant, that eliminates xylene, toluene, benzene, and trichloroethylene. And one more example, Hedera, or English Ivy, a climbing plant that can remove allergens such as mold and animal feces.

Having an abundance of plants in your home provided by Inside Plants residential plant service can create a healthier lifestyle for children and reduce allergies.

Babies need healthy clean air to breathe. Residential indoor plants service can ensure your plants are healthy and cleaning the air your baby breathes.

Residential Indoor Plants and Children

Due to changing lifestyles, people are spending more and more time indoors. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans on average spend 93% of their life indoors! Of this figure, 87% is spent inside buildings and 6% is spent traveling in automobiles. To put it in perspective, this means an average person spends just half of a day per week outdoors. Kinda shocking, isn’t it?

The Impact

The impact of this trend on people’s physical and mental health is worrisome. It is particularly disturbing how being constantly indoors can affect children who may have limited choice but to stay indoors – in classrooms or daycare, in apartment buildings, in school buses. It’s time to bring plants into your home with a residential indoor plant service. Even children’s leisure time may be spent indoors playing in arcades or strolling around in malls.Intuitively, we know that being outside, and seeing plants and greenery is good for us. This is linked to better moods and better outlooks in life. Up until recently though, how much impact spending so much time indoors has on us has not been precisely quantified.

What Do Studies Say

A study conducted by Aarhus University in Denmark, however, showed just how important spending time in greener surroundings is. The study found that children who grow up with greener surroundings have up to 55 percent less risk of developing various mental disorders later in life; this calls for greener and healthier cities for the future. The study shows the importance of surrounding children with green space from birth to the age of 10, particularly.

Children Exposure

When children are exposed to plants and greenery during this critical period, the risk of developing mental disorder decreases dramatically. Other related studies show that green spaces in your home provided by a residential indoor plant service create social symbiosis and increase people’s physical activity level. In children this is manifested in improved cognitive development. While there are other factors that may contribute to children’s risk for developing mental health problems as adults including noise, pollution, lower socioeconomic status, the Danish University study proves that time spent surrounded by greenery is as important.

Best Indoor Plants for Tropical Home Interiors

Achieving the tropical interiors you desire is not just about using specific colors or type of plants. Instead, use a variety of different elements to create that lush, tropical feel. A residential indoor plants service can include a wide variety of greenery and foliage all throughout your space to create that sense of having the outdoor tropics, indoors. This could mean potted palms, ferns or ficus trees. Some lively, bold colored flowers and large leafy plants also make strong statements and add to that tropical feel.

Here are some residential indoor plants that help you achieve your tropical paradise in your home:

Amazon Elephant Ear

This plant makes a huge statement with its large leaves and striking whitish veins against deep green leaves. It is well adapted to indoor living and can survive with up to 80% shade. In fact, they do not do well when exposed to direct or intense sunlight.

Bromeliads

These are considered one of the easiest of all tropical plants to grow. Though they are actually air plants, they are easily adapted to growing in pots. Because they come in wide array of colors and textures, they make a great addition to any space.

Cordyline

These make a bold and colorful addition to your tropical plantscape. They come in a wide array of leaf colors and provide a dramatic accent to any space. Put these in your office or commercial space and you’d think you’ve been transported to Hawaii.

Palm Trees

When you say tropics, the first thing that comes to mind are palm trees swaying in the wind. Inside Plants can recreate that image in your space because there are actually palms that are easy to grow indoors. Many are slow growers and quite pricey and others grow quickly yet have issues with pests. A residential plant service can help with that.

Rubber Plant (Ficus Elastica)

This tree like plant has large green leaves. There are 2 popular species – the decora with large green oval shaped leaves, and the robusta which has larger leaves. They make good indoor plants because they do well under lower light conditions.

Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum)

If you would like to incorporate blooms into your plantscape, the peace lily is a great option. They make the most impact when massed and are in full bloom. And the big bonus is that they are not as hard to cultivate indoors as they look.

Anthuriums

Their bright flowers provide a spot of tropical color to any interiorscape. They are a bit challenging to grow indoors. They need bright indirect light and the beautiful flower will last for many months.

Umbrella Tree (Schefflera Amate)

These beautiful plants have broad, glossy leaves that grow quickly and abundantly. They can be used as background plants or may be placed in a bright, warm corner for a nice canopy effect.

Orchids

Nothing says “tropics” more than a gorgeous flowering orchid. While they may be tricky to grow, you can rely on a residential indoor plant service to provide expert plant maintenance should you decide to incorporate these in your tropical interiors.

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