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In our previous blog; Best reasons to add greenery to your student home we showcased the benefits of adding houseplants to your student home. In this second blog we take a closer look at some of the best houseplants to add that little greenery to your student room while living with Host.
Calms you when you’re stressed and can also be used to add a new flavour to desserts. However, it’s not a traditional houseplant so it needs a little love and care. But when it does succeed, and your room is full of that lavender scent it’ll be worth the effort. Top tips for growing Lavender:
These are really cool as at dusk, the leaves fold together, as if in prayer, then in the morning light with a little rustling noise they open. Like Lavender, the Prayer-plant or Maranta plants need a little love and attention. Top Tips for looking after a Prayer plant:
An excellent air purifier that’s really easy to look after, you can almost forget about them and looks awesome in your bedroom. Top tips to look after this houseplant:
If you’re living in one of our studio rooms and have an empty corner these medium-sized houseplants make a stunning focal point. However, using a small plant pot can help keep them more manageable in size for all student rooms. Top Tips:
These houseplants add a lot of oxygen to the air within your student room and a bright and cheery focus to your room. Top Tips for looking after a Bamboo Palm:
Anyone else automatically think Hot Fuzz when you read the words, Peace Lily?
No just us?! Anyway, a Peace Lily will add a vibrant bit of greenery to your student room, it’s also on NASA’s list of top air-cleaning houseplants. It’ll also keep your room humid which helps if you suffer from dry skin. Top Tips:
Have you added a bit of greenery to your student room? Share a pic with us on our socials – Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Monday 26th April to Sunday 2nd May is National Gardening week – the UK’s biggest annual celebration of gardening. And while we always try to add a little green space to our student homes, its not always possible, so to avoid missing out on the benefits of gardening why not add a bit of the outdoors into your personal sanctuary.
To become more ‘environmentally friendly’, Host is launching the #HostEnvironmentalPledge campaign to encourage responsible behaviour and drive sustainability across our sites throughout the UK and Ireland.
It’s a simple campaign! For every percent we reduce our overall utilities (electric, water and gas) consumption by we donate to one of our nominated charities.
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