There is an art to placing indoor potted plants: these precautions are worth knowing

Indoors is a semi-enclosed space, so growing flowers naturally has many benefits. However, different plants have different characteristics, so the location and number of plants are key! Only by correctly using the characteristics of plants can you truly improve the quality of the home environment and benefit people's health even more!

1. Choose plants according to the function of the room

Besides photosynthesis, plants also carry out respiration (that is, taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide). Especially at night, photosynthesis is suppressed and respiration is relatively active! If too many flowering plants are placed in a bedroom, the indoor carbon dioxide concentration will be greatly increased! This affects human health and is not good for sleep!

2. Choose plants according to the size of the room

The more plants in a room, the better is not always true; instead, plants should be selected and placed according to the size of the room. If too many plants are placed in a small room, it will bring inconvenience to daily life. In general, for an area of 10 sq m, placing 2 pots of plants is enough.

3. Place plants in a targeted way according to indoor pollution

Some plants are very effective at absorbing certain harmful substances. For example, spider plant can absorb carbon dioxide, and aloe, pothos and snake plant are very effective at absorbing formaldehyde. English ivy and saxifrage can absorb radioactive substances such as uranium, and Buddhist pine can resist sulfur dioxide, and so on. (Although plants can absorb harmful gases, it is impossible to rely entirely on plants to absorb indoor harmful gases! Therefore, you still need to open windows often for ventilation.)

4. Flowers with unusual odors and toxic flowers should not be placed indoors

Although potted plants look nice, potted plants that produce unusual odors or are toxic should not be placed indoors. For example, toxic or bad-smelling plants such as Swiss cheese plant, dumb cane, calla lily and poinsettia can be placed on a balcony or in a courtyard.

In addition, although pine and cypress trees have a fragrant scent, they irritate people's stomach and intestines, not only affecting appetite but also causing pregnant women to feel nauseated and vomit, and to become dizzy!