Indoor plants can provide a number of benefits to our health by reducing levels of indoor air pollution in homes and offices.
These plants are able to absorb harmful gases emitted by home furnishings, upholstery, cleaning products and building materials.
Air-purifying plants come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from tall palms to ferns and orchids, climbers, weeping trees, shrubs and succulents as well as colourful flowering plants.
The best plants to clean the air by removing harmful pollutants are:
– Bamboo Palm
– Boston fern
– Peace lily
– Mother-in-law’s tongue
– Florists chrysanthemum
– Corn plant
– English ivy
– Spider plant
– Weeping fig
– Chinese evergreen
– Barberton or transvaal daisy, gerbera
Always use a premium standard potting mix for indoor plants.
Apply a controlled-release fertiliser when potting up plants and a
water-soluble fertiliser every month during the warmer seasons.
