The Scoop

        If you know me, you know I love plants with my heart and soul, and if you don’t, well, now you know I love plants. So, I have ten plants and I’m here to ramble on and on about my friends and boys, and maybe you’ll want to get a plant too! First, let me give you some facts. Plants have been proven to have a positive effect on your mental health, while that doesn’t mean that they will solve all your problems it does help to make you feel more at peace. They can also make you grow as a person since you need to develop responsibility to make sure your friend survives, and maybe even if you feel that there’s no point to anything maybe your plants can remind you that something depends on you to live, even if its just them. Even just looking at them can be healing, a room with a plant in it makes you feel more at ease and grounded. Beyond all that, they help improve your air quality, reducing levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants such as benzene and nitrogen dioxide, increasing humidity, and reducing airborne air levels, isn’t it amazing how many benefits having house plants has? And there is more! A study at The Royal College of Agriculture in Cirncester, England, found that students demonstrate 70% greater attentiveness when they're taught in rooms containing plants.

 

        Now that you know more about the benefits of houseplants than you could ever need to, you’ll meet my plants, my babies, my lovelies. First of all, John! Named after John Watson. Why? Because he has plant energy. He is the oldest plant I have currently. No one knows what he is. Only one person that visited our house once and I didn’t write it down, so it’s a big mystery. If you figure his species out, ill give you a prize. We got John in a Domingo de Ramos and initially thought they had tricked us into buying a sick plant with no roots, but life is full of surprises and he is a big boy now, he’s gone from a stick with some leaves to five strong stems full of healthy leaves.

 

        My second oldest is King, a bromeliad, this is a parasite species that sucks their nutrients off of tree trunks, so they absorb water via their leaves, which are shaped perfectly for this task. I named him after King from The Seven Deadly Sins, also he kind of looks like a crown so that makes sense. We have a bunch of bromeliads un our house since they are great at reproduction, and females grow lively red flowers and even more bromeliads, so we’ll always have a great supply of them. Truly, a blessing from the plant gods.

 

        Sitting in my library with King and John is Miles! I love this little guy, he’s a moon cactus. A friend gave him to me for my birthday (Thanks!!) and he’s so beautiful and cute. His pot and flower match each other perfectly with a vibrant yellow. He just makes me so happy. I wish I could say I have no favoritism with my plants, but he’s just amazing. A 100/10 boy.

 

        Moving on to my desk we have the one and only, the beautiful Haseul, a mint plant I got from Carulla. She’s my favorite. When we first got her she had minute yellow parasitic spiders that were draining her health away, but one day I accidentally pushed her off my desk and the spiders couldn’t take it. Today she is vital and growing, she even has two small flower buds and I can’t wait for them to bloom. I’m so excited! I’ve made tea with some leaves that had fallen off her stem and it was the best tea I’ve ever had, it was perfectly refreshing and heart-warming at the same time. Green tea with milk is perfect to wind down, especially when you know exactly where the mint came from.

 

        I have four succulents, Jin, Spike, Hermes, and Cerberus. Jin started out small and grew to have many children, he got long because I can’t get enough sunlight in my room, but he’s always been healthy and has lived more than one year. Spike, as the name suggests, has little spikes, they’re not strong enough to harm you, but they’re there. He’s getting elongated as well but he’s growing just fine. Both succulents seem to want to escape their pots. Maybe they want to break free. Hermes looks like a little green coral, it’s so interesting how many shapes and sizes succulents can have. Cerberus is named that way because it was initially three tiny succulents in one pot, but now they’ve grown and they´re even more. Cerberus is a hivemind and they are a lovely green that no other succulent is. And now, a Fun Fact! All cacti are sharp succulents since succulents are fleshy plants.

 

        On top of my desk is Kenny, a spider plant. These grow mini versions of themselves that hang by a stem, and spider plants are known to be faster at purifying air and eliminating formaldehyde, which causes irritation of nose, eyes, and throat. He’s already growing his first spiderette and we’re so proud of him.

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Finally, we have May, named after Brian May, he too is a mystery. They told us he is a coin plant, but after some research, I’ve found that to be fake. He hangs under the stairs, getting bigger, longer and more beautiful every day. He and Haseul are the neediest in terms of water and get shriveled up if they don’t have enough to eat every day.

 

        Well, those are all my plants. I hope you enjoyed this plant review I sure did enjoy ramble on and on about them. Maybe now you too will get a plant and enjoy some of the many benefits they bring with them, I certainly encourage doing so. I’ve been told that it could be dangerous to sleep close to so many plants, but plants don’t waste nearly enough oxygen to bring you any trouble, and their benefits far outweigh the almost non-existent drawbacks. So why not get your own plant and get all the benefits for yourself?