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PLANT<br />
your stress away<br />
Reduce anxiety by filling your home with house plants that help you to relax and regroup.<br />
PEACEFUL SLEEP<br />
One of the by-products of stress is tossing and turning at night. For energy<br />
to face the day, your body needs a sound night’s sleep so that it can rest<br />
and rejuvenate.<br />
Peace Lily and Sansevieria are bedroom plants that will improve your sleep<br />
environment and help you sleep better.<br />
Areca bamboo palm is a graceful<br />
indoor plant that fills a space without<br />
dominating it. It is also a natural<br />
humidifier. It likes bright, indirect<br />
light. Allow the soil to almost dry<br />
out between watering. In spring and<br />
summer, feed once a month with<br />
a nitrogen-based liquid fertiliser to<br />
encourage new leaves. Mist spray<br />
the leaves during very hot and dry<br />
weather. If the leaves become dusty,<br />
wipe them with a damp cloth; this<br />
keeps the pores open and maintains<br />
healthy leaves.<br />
Text: ALICE COETZEE<br />
Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum) has<br />
luxurious foliage and a white flag<br />
flower that symbolises peace. It is<br />
prized for being an air purifying plant,<br />
able to filter unpleasant odours and<br />
produce oxygen. It can grow in low<br />
light but does better with medium<br />
light in a warm and humid room.<br />
Water once a week and supplement<br />
with a liquid fertiliser every now and<br />
then in summer.<br />
Sansevieria releases oxygen at night<br />
when the temperature cools due to<br />
a unique photosynthesis action. This<br />
makes it one of the best air–cleaning<br />
plants and is especially suitable for<br />
the bedroom. It grows in low light<br />
as well as bright indirect light. Water<br />
sparingly, and only once the soil is dry<br />
as this plant doesn’t like to be over<br />
watered. It’s a very low maintenance<br />
plant that is ideal for beginners.<br />
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