Plants offer a wide variety of improvements to any environment that you add them to. In the yard, they can provide food for animals and for you, as well as improve the local air quality. In the home, they can offer both editable and beautiful décor options that are natural and sustainable.
Improves Air Quality
Plants improve the air quality in your home and in the environment when planted out of doors. Plants like the peace lily, a typical indoor house plant, can work to remove VOCs in your environment. Of course, you should also work toward cutting down your use of contaminants, but plants do make your air quality better.
Carbon Sequestration
The reason your plants make the air quality better is that plants capture the carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the roots and stems. Because of this, plants – especially green plants – are a good thing to help reduce the carbon in your environment.
Promotes Biodiversity
When you grow plants that are friendly to your local environment, you will attract more species, due to the fact there will be more moisture and better soil in the area that is actively being planted.
Attracts Wildlife
The various plants you grow can attract the type of wildlife that you’d like to attract. You can grow plants that attract birds, bees, butterflies, and whatever you want to attract. It takes a little research for your local area, but you have the power to turn your yard into a wildlife refuge.
Offers Energy Savings
When you are strategic about the plants you grow, you can grow shade trees in the areas you need them so that you can cool down your yard and home.
Cools the Environment
More plants outside cool your environment. An adequately planted shade tree can change the environment in more ways than you may imagine right now but that you’ll really notice in ten years’ time.
Reduces Noise Pollution
Strategically planted trees and shrubbery can also make your home quieter because you can significantly reduce the noise pollution in your home and your yard with them.
Reduces Soil Erosion
Properly landscaped yards will do better in bad weather and help avoid soil erosion. Using yard covers like clover, for example, not only attracts bees by giving them an environment to thrive, but it cuts down on soil erosion too.
Plants offer a myriad of benefits to your environment inside and outside. The main thing you need to do is only plant native plants and consider the type of wildlife and insects you want to attract before planting. Also, try to use only natural planting and gardening practices so that you don’t add to pollution by using chemical pest repellants and the wrong type of plant food.
