My Plant Collection
I love incorporating plants throughout my home. I love it so much, in the book I wrote, The Break Away, Lilly had her own plant collection.
I’ll be working on this page. I have a lot of plants. It’ll take a while to add each of them on here.
This page is to encourage you to invite nature into your home. It serves three main purposes: to purify the air in your home, to add oxygen back into earth, & to add a sense of serenity to your living space. In a world full of chaos, what we bring into our home can have a huge cognitive impact on how we feel. There is a healing power in taking care of a garden of plants
The Snow Capped Artillery Fern:
I love the dainty leaves on this plant. The leaves are a soft-white color, with hints of pink variegation. It is a plant that is non-toxic to pets and humans. It is a Feng Shui plant, known to promote harmony and tranquility. It helps promote humidity in the home, and is simple to propagate. I love it because it helps to filter out VOCs from the home, formaldehyde, Benzene, trichloroethylene, xylene and toluene.
I’m a minimalist when it comes to the material world. I have no desire for things. Most of the products on the market are poorly made and end up in a landfill. Instead of things, I desire plants. Plants are important for our environment. In the last 100 years, oxygen on earth has decreased 0.1%
Oceanic oxygen has decreased 2% since the 1950’s, and some tropical areas have seen decreases of 40% to 50%.
The change has no direct impact on humans currently, but it is affecting marine life. This is from Google:
- Marine ecosystems are the exception: The main threat of oxygen reduction to wildlife is in aquatic ecosystems, where dissolvedoxygen is disappearing at a much faster rate due to global warming and pollution. This causes:
- Dead zones: Regions of low oxygen where aquatic life cannot survive.
- Habitat loss: For creatures that cannot flee these low-oxygen areas, such as crabs and mussels, a loss of dissolved oxygen is often fatal.
- Altered food webs: Mobile species that move away from hypoxic areas disrupt the local food web, potentially affecting the survival of other species.
- Impact on human food security: The loss of oxygen in the oceans has a direct effect on fisheries, which many humans depend on for food and livelihood. As fish move away from deoxygenated areas, it can disrupt fisheries and food webs.
- Accelerated effect on climate: The loss of ocean oxygen can also amplify climate change. As deoxygenated zones expand, they can release potent greenhouse gases, creating a feedback loop that accelerates global warming.
- Long-term predictions (thousands to billions of years)
- Speculative predictions about far-future impacts are based on models with a great deal of uncertainty. For example, one model extrapolates from recent data to suggest that atmospheric oxygen could fall to half its current level in about 3,600 years, but this model is criticized for lacking a geological basis. A separate model predicts a catastrophic collapse of oxygen in about one billion years, due to the sun's aging and growing heat.
- Deep uncertainty: Geochemical projections into the very distant future rely on assumptions that are subject to change. For example, some projections depend on uncertain assumptions about how long fossil fuels will continue to be burned and whether the current accelerated decline is temporary.
- Potential adaptation: If oxygen levels were to decrease gradually over thousands of years, humans would have a very long time to acclimate or adapt. Research on high-altitude populations, such as Tibetans, shows that humans can adapt to lower oxygen levels over many generations. However, such adaptation would be a slow evolutionary process.
I find it fascinating. Although I’m aware that the earth has cycles of global warming and global cooling, I’d like to think I’m somehow helping nature by tending to my plants and trees. I find the process therapeutic and peaceful.
More coming soon....
