After my successful improvisation of a window sill to accommodate flowering bulbs I googled around about the benefits of houseplants, and was reminded that according to a study by NASA they are absolutely topping for cleaning the air in the house. And seeing as I have been having the occasional asthma issue I thought, here is the answer to all my air quality problems! I found a list of the best performers, and went out to buy about a dozen, which I distributed around the house.
Pleased with my efforts I went back to google some more about the advantages of these green friends, only to discover to my horror that the whole thing is a fraud! Apparently the NASA study was (a) flawed and (b) wrongly reported, and anyway one would need about 30 plants per room to make any sort of difference - with that many plants in a room I wouldn't fit any longer!
I was kind of in a bad mood after that. All this space I have allotted to those green things, and they don't even bloom, and now they will not make me healthy, either! To make things worse, I mainly bought the sort that are almost indestructible and so I can't kill them off by over or under watering, darn it!
What's a woman to do?
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| View from dining room into the Mouserleum |
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| Primroses and Lily-of-the-Valleys |
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| Tete-a-tete and grape hyacinths in the Mouserleum |
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| Forget-me-nots in the Mouserleum |
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| Smallest room in the house |
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| Back bedroom |
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| Back bedroom |
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| Front bedroom |
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| Shamrock is doing ducky in a bonsai pot |
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| There is always a clivia in bloom in the house |
