Air plants are a new decoration alternative, but besides looking amazing they have many benefits.
These plants can help you reduce pollen allergies, clean the air in your home, relax and stimulate your productivity and creativity.
Unlike many others, air plants care is minimal. Some need to be submerged in water for a few minutes once or twice a week and given moderate amounts of air and light. Besides that, the only thing you have to worry about is where to put them to enhance their beauty to the fullest.
In nature, air plants or Tillandsias usually live on a host (trunk, tree, rock or even a power line), but they are not parasitic, that is, they do not take away their food or nutrients, they only use it as support to avoid living in the soil. 95% of its food comes from moist air, mist, rain, dust, bird droppings, and decomposing dead insects that fall between its leaves.
We show you 7 creative ways to incorporate them into your home.
Geometric game
Play with the geometry of the pots and the organic movement of your air plant to give it a sense of contrariety. Also, give it the place it deserves and leave it hanging in the air so that the beauty of both the plant and the container in which it is found can be appreciated.
terrariums
Just as cacti can be in incredible terrariums, air plants can evoke another geography in their tiny and unique ecosystem that would look amazing in the center of your table. If you place them in the center of the table in your living room, all your visitors will applaud your originality with the decoration.
On the wall
Many like to hang pictures or posters of their favorite movies and they do it because it does look good, but if you leave double the space between a picture and fill it with air plants -which are in small pots to make them appear to float- you will give a new and elegant life to your walls.
floating
Leaving a designated space to hang some floating plants can give that space a whole new meaning. Remember that you have to be moderate, so while a single one would not give much to talk about (unless it is the one that combines the design of the pot as in the first image), filling a corner with 10 plants would make the aesthetic sense get lost Three or four air plants are more than enough.
box garden
Unlike vertical gardens that cover large spaces on your wall, limiting with a box will give a sense of union that will give meaning to a vertical garden in the middle of your home. Remember to place the plants carefully and a little apart so that you can take them out and give them water without damaging the others.
minimalist
Without a doubt one of the most original. Holding it in the middle of a box gives it a minimalist look and turns it into a decorative object and a work of art.
natural
Following the minimalist line, but more attached to the habitat of the plant, having them on flat stones gives a more natural sense, totally changing the atmosphere of your home. In addition, it also recalls the Zen philosophy of the East, so they are the perfect companions to meditate.
Remember that although they are easy to care for, you should know which one you have and its specific care. Although it seems that they belong to the desert and that they do not need anything to survive, they are living beings that depend completely on you.