Balancing the room with potted plants

CREATE a beautiful and inspiring atmosphere in your home by adding fresh indoor plants and flowers.

Turn your home into a gathering place for your family and friends by making it feel fresh, pleasant and welcoming. Placing tall potted plants can help your room feel balanced and comfortable.

Fresh flowers add charming accents and they modernise your space making it an eco-friendly environment. They not only help with cleaning the environment around them, but they are a quick decorating tool.

Aloe has long pointed leaves with medical properties people probably know from product levels. It can be kept in any room and it is not only used as decorative tool but can be used for medical purposes.

It can grow about 1,5m high for big impact indoors thus manipulating that large vertical space. Smaller varieties like popular aloe vera work great in small, sunny indoor spaces. Make sure there is enough sunlight. This plant is easy to take care of as it prefers dry soil.

Herbs are perfect for you kitchen and they have beautiful scents that will spread throughout the room. Herbs such as rosemary, lavender, basil, parsley, lemon balm, lemon grass, mint, oregano, cilantro and thyme are easy to grow. You can also plant scented geraniums, African violet, begonia and impatiens to enjoy the beautiful flowers.

Herbs are perfect for your kitchen as they make cooking enjoyable.

The easiest plants you can have are aloes, snake plant, pothos, ferns, spider plant and ivies. Spider plants can also be used as a focal point has they have unique features…it is eye-catching. Pothos has an air-purifying quality that can absorb toxins from materials like carpet.

English ivy has a real timeless elegance and it trails down furniture for a pretty effect. It is easy to start a new plant by cutting a section of a stem.

You can also combine these or herbs with other ornamental plants to decorate your home.

Some plant species have the capacity to bring a new scent to your home, absorbing bad odours or stenches. These include peace lily, jasmine, mum, rubber plant and gerbera daisy.

Take advantage of these natural air fresheners to purify the air in your space.