#natural houseplant care

[thecleanmethod]

Organic Houseplant Care Guide | The Clean Method

Interested in organic gardening? Here are #organic compounds and products you probably already have at home that can help create a vibrant, #indoorgarden! #organicgardening #theleanmethod

Gardening should also be clean. Shop More Clean Goods Natural Houseplant Care with Everyday Organic Compounds Welcome to The Clean Method, your go-to source for sustainable and eco-friendly living. As more people embrace natural lifestyles, the demand for chemical-free houseplant care solutions has grown. In this blog post, we’ll explore various methods for maintaining healthy houseplants…

[glittergroovy]

[indiegame]

morning from the ridgetop

[envirogreenery]

By introducing just a few live plants, air quality can be improved within your space. CO2 can be reduced by 50% as well as a reduction in the dust, bacteria and mould which would otherwise be inhaled. Dust levels in your space can be reduced by up to 20 per cent when plants are introduced.

With correct placement of plants, the need for air con can also be reduced and the air kept at a higher humidity (up to 20%).

By reducing the dry air caused by air conditioning and increasing humidity, illnesses such as tickly coughs are much less common.

🌿 Here’s 7 indoor plants that help to purify the air around your space:

1. Snake Plant: This popular plant can actually help you get a good nights sleep! Snake Plant, otherwise known as Sansevieria, releases oxygen at night - making it a great low maintenance plant for the bedroom.

2. Spider Plant: This common houseplant is one of the easiest air purifiers to grow! It is also great for pet owners, as it is non-toxic.

3. Bamboo Palm: This palm excels in removing molds and ammonia often found in household cleaning products.

4. Dracaena: At this point, we all know dracaena. These common houseplants clear out air pollutants such as benzene, xylene, trichloroethylene, formaldehyde, and carbon dioxide.

5. Aloe Vera: Not only can the gel of this plant help ease burns and scrapes, this succulent purifies the air of formaldehyde and benzene.

6. Rubber Tree: This plant with thick waxy leaves produces tons of oxygen and removes bacteria and mold spores from the air.

7. Aglaonema: This low light plant excels low levels of benzene and formaldehyde from the air.

[ultimatehealingsolutions]

Top Air-Purifying Plants for a Healthier Home

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Air-Purifying Plants That Help Eliminate Toxins Indoors Indoor greenery offers a simple way to elevate your living spaces while contributing to your health in unexpected ways. With their diverse colors, textures, and sizes, houseplants are more than just a decoration – they can actively purify the air around you. Grounded in research by NASA, various plants have been shown to combat indoor…

[realest-nilou-kinnie]

i hope jade leech knows that every second i spend building terrariums im thinking of him

[agricarecorp]

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[planthouseandgarden]

Electroculture for Houseplants | Amazing Results after 2 weeks

My Alocasia Experiment Results In this post, I’ll share my experience with electroculture for houseplants, a fascinating technique that taps into atmospheric energy to boost plant growth naturally, without the use of fertilizers or pesticides. Hello, and welcome to my latest post on sustainable methods for enhancing houseplant growth with electroculture for houseplants. In my recent video, I…

[shutterandpencil]

"we blooms three"

By now, there are three blooms (the third being in the back). I'm still wondering if it's foreshadowing of something significant to come.

As noted in a previous post, "Polaris" hasn't bloomed since I got her.

[busybeasgarden]

[sarahtran]

how to keep a houseplant (or a human) alive

♡ if you've killed a plant (or several) before, you're not alone ♡

if you're a beginner in plant care, houseplants, or indoor gardening, you've come to the right place. if you're a beginner in self-care, wellness, mental health, or self-improvement, you've also come to the right place (what an efficient video to get your life together, amirite).

i tend to notice that when my plants aren't being watered, are having pest/growth issues, or if i'm generally slacking in the gardening hobbies department, that means that my own self-love, self-care routines and personal growth habits are being neglected, too. so in this video, i've combined the best botany + self-care advice as a reminder that things like nutrition, sleep, and conscious living are crucial - for both our plants and ourselves!

this is also an homage to Anna Akana - i've been watching her videos since forever, so much so that her editing style is engrained in my brain. i'm still learning to play around with writing and editing, but it was fun trying to mimic someone who inspires me so much.

[introboy]

So so excited to share my @mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @follow-the-compass-home! My concept was to combine a bunch of prompts together into one AU.

The premise is a modern-fantasy roommate situation where Tango, Bdubs, and Etho live together in an apartment. The only issue is that none of them are human, but they're all trying desperately to blend in, even though they don't really understand humanity as a concept.

More information can be found below the cut, and an introductory fic snippet can be found here (x)!

Downstairs Neighbors AU

Prompts used as inspiration:

Focus on Tango, Etho, and Bdubs

Include Boatem

Story told from Grian's perspective

Hybrid/inhuman AU

Angst with a happy ending

Emphasis on character dynamics

Here's a summary!!!

Tango, Etho, and Bdubs found each other by looking for roommates on Craigslist. They live in a 4-bedroom apartment together.

Tango is a spirit who wanted to interact with the world in a physical sense, so he built himself a body. He's basically just a ghost possessing an android (but unlike ghosts, he was never alive; he came into being as a fully-formed spirit). He doesn't adhere to normal bodily necessities like food, water, or sleep, which is convenient but also heavily concerning from an outsider's perspective.

Etho is a specific kind of shapeshifter called a mimic. He doesn't have a true form, but can copy the shape and mannerisms of most living creatures. The only constant across all of his appearances is a scarred left eye and white hair. Unfortunately, it takes practice to nail specific species characteristics, so he often forgets what he's supposed to look like and falls into uncanny valley. He wears a mask to cover his more noticable facial slipups.

Bdubs is some sort of plant creature (he doesn't really understand it himself). He has a perfect internal clock and sleeps, without fail, for 12 hours every night. He spends a lot of time in the unoccupied bedroom-- he uses it as a makeshift greenhouse, and it's filled with grow lights and humidifiers. He loves taking care of houseplants, but it's also a cover for him to spend time under the grow lights. Without enough light & water he gets lethargic.

Bdubs, Etho, and Tango, henceforth referred to as BET, all assume that the others are human. But since none of them know how to act human, they continuously pick up stranger and stranger habits from each other.

BET are close friends with Impulse & Skizzleman, who live together across the hall. Their upstairs neighbors are Grian, Pearl, Mumbo, and Scar, who are also besties with Imp & Skizz. BET and Boatem don't know each other well, but Grian especially thinks his neighbors are really odd.

Like BET, Grian is not human, and neither are the rest of his roommates. But they all know about each other, and Grian especially is really good at knowing how to act natural in public places. He's an avian shapeshifter, who can take the form of either a scarlet macaw or a human. Unlike Etho, both forms come equally naturally to Grian, and the shapeshifting process is a lot easier for him.

(Imp & Skizz are not human either-- they are a demon and an angel respectively. But, like Grian, they're really good at blending in when in public.)

One day, Grian gets injured on a flight and accidentally ends up on BET's balcony instead of his own. He's too disoriented to shift back into his human form or fly away, so Bdubs and Etho find him outside their door. Tango calls Impulse over in the hopes that he knows how to fix the random-injured-parrot crisis, but the only result is that Grian and Impulse start to truly take note of how strange their neighbors' living situation is. Incidents like the one pictured above arise (i.e. everyone finding out that there is not a singular scrap of food to be found in the entire apartment).

Ok that's all the rambling I'll do in this post, but I hope you enjoyed! Happy holidays!!

[sunlight-and-calliopes]

Lady Aretmis

Goddess of the moon, the hunt, archery, the wilderness, chastity, childbirth, and protector of women and children.

Epithets

Agrotera ~ The Huntress; Of the Hunt

Elaphiaia ~ Of the Deer

Lycaea ~ Of the Wolves

Philomeirax ~ Friend of Young Girls

Paidotrophos ~ The Nurse of Children

Orsilokhia ~ Helping in Childbirth

Soteira ~ Saviour

Letoas ~ Daughter of Leto

Celadeinus ~ The Strong-Voiced

Aidoios Parthenos ~ Revered Virgin

Prostateria ~ The Guardian

Hekatebolos ~ The Far-Shooting

Associations

Animals

Deer

Bears

Hounds / Hunting Dogs

Boars

Buzzards

Quail

Partridges

Plants

Amaranth

Cypress trees

Palm trees

Asphodel

Walnut trees

Mugwort

Colors

Silver

White

Green

Blue

Turquoise / Cyan

Offerings and Devotional Acts

Bones and antlers

Deer imagery

Moon and night sky imagery

Candles and incense

Round cakes and bread

Olive oil

Wine

Nuts and fruits

Chicken, turkey, pheasant, or quail feathers

Pine cones, branches, and needles

Fresh or dried flowers

Dog imagery

Caring for pets and family members, especially children

Hunting and / or foraging

Donating or volunteering for charities

Spending time in nature, especially woods and streams

Veiling

Taking care of houseplants

Volunteering in animal shelter

(credit to @vibeswithrenai for the Artemis themed dividers!)

[anmaje]

I have so many Thoughts about S&co Sherlock Holmes, so have my headcanons:

- He was raised, at least partially, by his grandparents. Maybe by the french, maternal grandmother(NAVA). His oldtimey poshness is wonderful, but I can only explain it with some oldmoney, eccentric pensionist giving him a weirdly free, yet emotionally constipated upbringing.

- The houseplants of 221b and a are in pristine health because of him.

- He doesn't have any actual diagnoses. This is basically canon, but I'm putting it on here anyways. He doesn't, but Mycroft does. It's the classic instance of the more "severe case" or "more affected" sibling getting the help they need. And the symptoms of the other "less affected" sibling are overlooked. He also self medicates, which makes sense if he doesn't have access to prescription meds.

- He only wears clothes that fit. Oversized or skinny styles are the inventions of Satan himself. They're straight from sensory hell, and Sherlock agrees with me. He's very picky with fabrics too, preferring natural to synthetic. He detests wool against his skin though, so he wears tights, or long underwear beneath wool trousers in winter. He also gets a lot of clothes adjusted or made by a tailor(Who also did his grandparent's tailoring).

- He shaves his legs and armpits aswell as his face every day.

- If you ask him about his sexuality/gender identity you'll get a "that's none of your business". If John asked him, he'd get a "labels limit the vast expanse of the human experience". In truth he doesn't fucking know, it's weird and muddy, like the rest of his identity. He's read every book on the subject, watched so much porn, had a lot of one night stands, but ultimately comes up with: sex and relationships get in the way of my work, so I'll ignore that. Gender is a social construct, so I get to decide what a man is. And I'm queer, I guess.

- Dogperson

- He plays Mendelsohn for John, like in the canon. Not because John has asked him to(John doesn't know who Mendelsohn is), but because he's made a careful study to garner John's reaction to different composers. He's been doing the same with Mariana, and is slowly but surely honing in on Mozart. Both of these composers bore him, but he doesn't care when it's for his friends <3

- Despite not liking to dance (solitary cyclist part 2), he's very good! He was forced to do ballet and ballroom dancing as a kid. He's mustering up the courage to ask Mariana to dance salsa with him on their next pub escapade, but he always puts it off.

-FRECKLES. A LOT OF 'EM.

[khaire-traveler]

🌍 Subtle Gaia Worship 🌱

Pick up trash and litter in your neighborhood, nature preserves, hiking trails, beaches, etc. (please wear protective equipment!!!)

Take a walk/hike outside; nature environments would be great, but it's ok if you don't have that option

Open a window in your home; breathe in some fresh air

Support organizations focused on climate control, the environment, or the well-being of wildlife/plant life

Support organizations that are against domestic abuse or aiding domestic abuse survivors

Plant a tree if you can

Try gardening or own a houseplant

Have a candle that reminds you of her (no altar needed)

Wear jewelry that reminds you of her

Keep a picture of her or the earth in your wallet

Fall asleep to nature sounds, such as birds singing, forest ambiance, or comforting animal noises

Try to spot something beautiful in the natural world around you every time you go outside; take a moment to appreciate it if you can

Learn about your local flora and fauna; learn about invasive species to look out for

Watch a nature documentary or educational video about nature

Learn about foraging; try your hand at it (SAFELY!!!)

Try eating organic fruits and veggies; if you can't, try eating fruits and veggies in general

Spend extra time making a tasty meal for yourself or loved ones; add natural ingredients to it, like fruits, veggies, meats, eggs, etc.

Drink tea made from herbs and the like; add honey to your tea

Try communing with plants and their spirits, if you're open to that practice; give thanks to local nature spirits; this includes nymphs

Have imagery of the seasons, lightning, fruits, the earth, the ocean, the sky, mountains, natural environments (like forests and jungles), plant life (especially very green plants), ash trees, pine trees, olive trees, rosemary, motherhood (however you choose to interpret that), scorpions, snakes, dragons, bats/bat wings, sea creatures, centaurs, nymphs, and flint sickles (or generally sickles)

Have a stuffed animal snake, dragon, bat, or scorpion; have a stuffed animal of an animal you associate strongly with motherhood

Lend a hand to any new parents in your life; offer to help babysit, if you can

Be kind to children (or disengage, just don't be beefing with a child)

Play with or spend time with any kids in your life

Donate child supplies, such as diapers, baby food, and toys, to a homeless shelter or organization that helps parents/single mothers

Engage in random acts of kindness towards a stranger; make someone smile

Allow yourself to rest when you need to; rest is productive

Treat yourself with kindness and love; practice self-love

Try to encourage yourself when you're having a hard time, or otherwise be gentle with yourself

Give compassion to others, especially those who are struggling

Embrace being the "parent friend", if you are one (someone who always has snacks, bandaids, etc.; someone who is always checking in on everyone in the group; someone is always taking care of the group, etc.)

Practice grounding techniques; give meditation in nature (or to nature sounds) a try

Engage in relaxing activities, especially when you're feeling overwhelmed; this can include drawing, painting, crocheting, writing, etc.

Take an herbal/salt bath (USE BATH SALTS; MAKE SURE HERBS DON'T GO DOWN YOUR DRAIN!!!)

Take frequent breaks from your phone/technology; make sure you're not straining your eyes

Exercise/stretch; move your body in some way

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For now, this is my list of discreet ways to worship Gaia! I'll likely add more later on. May Gaia embrace you in her loving arms, if you wish her to. 💚

Link to Subtle Worship Master list

[buriedpentacles]

10 More Simple Ways to Worship Mother Nature

Donate to a wildlife charity or nature reserve

Dance in the rain, celebrate the stormy weather and the benefits it has for the world

Do something for your local wildlife: build a bug hotel or hedgehog hide-out

Learn about ecology and learn about it locally

Keep a houseplant and care for it as a devotional act (super cool of its a native plant too)

Don't mow your lawn - or at least a small patch it

Plant native wildflowers and support local bees (honeybees are not the ones at risk!)

Sit outside and speak to her: pray, sing, meditate, tell her about your day, whisper your secrets. She will listen

Watch documentaries about nature or the universe or ecology!

Cloud watch - see what messages you can find in the sky