The Benefits of Decorating with Indoor Plants


 

Having live houseplants in your home or apartment can do wonders to add life to the space. Not only do plants look aesthetically pleasing, they also provide their caretakers with physical and mental health benefits. Here are several of the benefits science says indoor plants may provide:


Indoor plants may help reduce stress levels.

A study published in the Journal of Physiological Anthropology found that plants in your home or office can make you feel more comfortable, soothed, and natural. They found that indoor gardening tasks lowered the stress in participants, while computer tasks caused a spike in heart rate and blood pressure. Researchers concluded that working with plants could reduce both physiological and psychological stress.


Working with plants can be therapeutic.

For people experiencing the symptoms of mental illness, indoor gardening can be helpful.

Researchers have used horticultural therapy to increase feelings of well-being among people with depression, anxiety, dementia, and other conditions.


Plants may boost your productivity.

Multiple studies have found that plants in the workspace increase both productivity and creativity. One frequently cited study from 1996 found that students in a campus computer lab worked 12 percent faster and were less stressed when plants were placed nearby.

In a 2004 study, researchers challenged people to make creative word associations. They performed better when a plant was in the room with them. And a 2007 study showed that people with more plants in their workspace took fewer sick days and were more productive on the job.


Plants may improve the quality of indoor air.

Scientific support for phytoremediation — that’s the word for plants scrubbing contaminants from the air — usually begins with a NASA study conducted in the 1980s. Researchers then were looking for ways to improve the air quality in a sealed spacecraft, and they concluded that the roots and soil of houseplants reduced airborne volatile organic compounds (VOCs) significantly.


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