Having plants in your home can help reduce stress levels, increase productivity, and improve indoor air quality.

As much as they can care for you, you need to care for them too.

Today we'll discuss some natural ways that you can take care of your plants.

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from you. Today, we're excited to talk to Tiffany Durr about how you can use essential oils

to care for your houseplants. Tiffany, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks. I'm excited to be here.

My first question for you is one for people who are just kind of branching into this world of plant care. What are your tips for people who are just getting

interested in having houseplants? Yeah. So one of the first things is when you decide you want a house plant, when you go to pick it up for the first time, make sure that you check that plant over.

Does it have droopy leaves? Is it yellowing? And most importantly, check for any pests that might be on it, any insects under the leaves.

Look for webbing, those types of things.

Because you want to have a really good, healthy plant to start with. Otherwise, you might feel

devastated. So I would not recommend if you're brand new going to the clearance rack and buying

one of those plants that are half dead and rescuing them because I don't want you to have a broken

heart and think that you have a brown thumb. That's not true. Just got to start with a healthy plant. I think that sounds like an

absolutely crucial step. So the next logical question is how do I know what to grow? How do I know

what plants to choose? Yeah. So some of the really easy houseplants to start out with, this is snake

plant is a really great one. That's a great one to have in your bedroom because it releases lots of

oxygen at night. There's arrowheads. Pothos are another great one. Allo is an awesome one,

and I'm sure a lot of us know how to use aloe in other ways. When you're going and looking, looking for those plants that say that they're easy care

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