Indoor gardening fills a basic human need to be connected with the natural world. This connection provides many physical and mental health benefits. It nurtures our environmental awareness, reduces stress, and increases life satisfaction.
Gardening indoors engages our senses; sight, touch, sound, and smell. It’s an excellent way to bond with family or friends by teaching children how plants grow. The act of caring for a plant is soothing and calming, reflecting the nature of flow when one becomes deeply absorbed in an activity without thought or judgment.
It offers opportunities for creative expression through colors, textures, and forms, from potting soil to the arrangement and decoration of your garden. As indoor gardens help filter air pollutants, choosing hardy green plants can improve air quality at home or work spaces adding more oxygen to each breath we take.
Having access to fresh culinary herbs is a plus as well; just snip off what you need and add flavourful beneficial ingredients to meals.
Indoor gardening allows us to fill up our homes with signs of liveliness while benefiting mentally, physically, and creatively in the process.