What are the benefits of keeping flowers at home?

1. Beautify the environment

There are many kinds of flowers, thousands of forms and gorgeous colors, which are indispensable for the beautification of family environment. In the bedroom, a pot of grass flowers, green plants or a work of flower arrangement, all reflect the beauty and harmony. The room decorated by flowers is more attractive in space content and image.

Flowers themselves have rich forms and bright colors. A pot of grass and flowers is placed in the room. People can watch the leaves, appreciate the flowers, smell their fragrance, and be intoxicated with them. In order to increase the beauty, flowers often become important ornaments in the room and are the focus of the room space.

As a kind of mobile enclosed space element, flowers are widely used to limit indoor space and fill space, provide transition, contact, partition, penetration, conversion of space, can form a large and filial closed and open contrast change, provide segmentation conditions for different functional spaces. In addition, it can also make the negative space which can not be fully utilized and beautiful be changed.

2. Good for health

Many flowers have medicinal value or are rich in vitamins. It is good for people to eat these flowers. Delicacies made of flowers, such as plum porridge, lotus porridge, chrysanthemum rice, osmanthus soup, etc., are popular because of their rich nutrition, fragrance and elegant color. In addition, the smell of some fragrant plants is helpful to health. For example, the fragrance of orange flower is helpful to treat headache and cold, and rose is helpful to treat toothache.

To some extent, it is a kind of sports activity to engage in family gardening activities such as planting flowers and grass. It is light labor, active and quiet, especially suitable for the elderly. Smelling the fragrance of flowers, scarifying the soil, watering and changing pots while smelling the flowers, not only regulated the mood, but also increased the activity of body muscles and bones. Foreign experts conducted a survey on thousands of middle-aged and elderly women. They found that women who do 2.5 hours of gardening a week are full of vitality, not easy to get fat, and are more healthy.

3. Clean air

The rapid development of industry not only brings convenience to people's life, but also produces a lot of dust, waste gas, waste water, noise and so on, which seriously pollutes the environment and threatens people's health. Many building materials and decoration materials in modern rooms are harmful to human body, which quietly pollute people's living rooms. Common indoor environmental chemical pollutants include formaldehyde, benzene, toluene, chlorine, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, etc. Often stay in these polluted environment, will cause headache, dizziness, fatigue, memory loss and other phenomena, serious even cancer. Many plants can absorb, transform or reduce the pollution and purify the air. The results showed that Aloe could remove 90% formaldehyde in 1 cubic meter of air, Ivy could absorb 90% benzene, Chlorophytum could absorb and transform 96% carbon monoxide and 86% formaldehyde.

Plants can also increase the indoor concentration of negative ions, and the environment rich in negative ions will make people feel fresh and happy. According to the determination, placing 20 plants in a room can increase the number of negative ions by 4-5 times. Some flowers, such as orchids, geranium, flower leaf taro, etc., can also secrete phytobactericide, so that harmful bacteria die.

4. Enhance feelings

Flowers can make people happy, intoxicate people's sentiment and purify people's mind. In modern society, people's life rhythm is fast. If green plants are often accompanied, the restless psychology and impatient mood can be eliminated and people's mentality can be calmed down.

Through planting flowers and grass, teenagers can develop the habit of loving labor, and cultivate patience, care and love; the growth process of plants also makes children experience a valuable life experience; the elderly plant flowers to make their old age have something to do, and get endless fun from one flower and one grass, which can make the empty nest elderly forget loneliness and loneliness.