Houseplant Appreciation Day

Houseplant Appreciation Day is January 10

Bring a taste of the outdoors into your house by getting a houseplant! This is a holiday that proves you don't need a backyard to enjoy the benefits of having plants in your life. There are tons of studies that prove keeping plants in your house can help improve your mental health, so get planting! This holiday was started by The Gardener's Network to encourage people to keep indoor plants during the cold winter months. So take that Christmas tree down and put some new plants up!

The 2019 Garden Trends Report said that 30 percent of all households are buying one plant per year; spending on average $500 per year.

Weird facts about indoor plants

• Most houseplants come from the tropics
• Growing houseplants started in ancient times
• Houseplants remove air pollution and allergens
• Indoor plants reduce stress and boost productivity
• Plants reduce noise pollution
• Plants balance out humidity and boost your complexion
• Plants like music

Ways to Celebrate Houseplant Appreciation Day

• Get a new plant
• Name your plants
• Talk to them and play them music
• Feed them fancy plant food aka plant fertilizer
• Buy your plants new pots and repot them if needed

There could be an exhaustive list of plants you could buy, but here are a few that you won’t kill so easily: a Pothos Plant, a Peace Lily, and an Umbrella Plant (Schefflera Arboricola).

So whether you like plastic plants or the real ones, go spend the day around all the things that are green.