Green Plants - Supercharge Your Wellness with Flowers and Plants

Green Plants Can Make You Healthier - How Your Plants Can Take Care of You

The secret’s out: living among plants and blooms supports your physical and emotional wellness. Studies show that a home filled with flowers and plants is good for your health and promotes a positive, creative outlook. Wellness experts and interior designers alike love to discuss the benefits of having an indoor garden in the home or office. Flowers are instant mood-boosters and are known to relieve anxiety, stress, or sadness. Having flowers in your home can inspire happy memories and feelings of hope and love. Potted plants generate fresh air and can humidify indoor spaces, benefitting our lungs and immune systems. Gazing at a fresh bouquet or potted plant can bring joy to your room and fill your day with high energy, bright interactions, and increased focus. 

How can you integrate plants into your health and wellness goals? The team at Allen’s Flower Market is inspired by helping you find gifts for all occasions – and, when the time is right, we love to help you give yourself the gift of wellness. As the spring winds down into long, warm summer days, you deserve a chance to take a deep exhale, relax, and practice some self-care. Here are some ways to let your flowers and plants help you tap into your wellness practice:

• Spend time in nature. Maybe there’s a hike you’ve wanted to try, a beach you miss visiting, or a neighborhood you find beautiful. By exploring beautiful, inspiring surroundings and soaking up some sunshine and fresh air, you can unplug from screens and absorb all of nature’s benefits. Being outdoors stimulates creativity and brightens peoples’ moods, and is great for your body, too! Bonus: keep an eye out for plants and flowers that capture your interest. The more you open yourself to observing plant life, the more you’ll notice and feel connected to it.
• Bring plants into your fitness routine. Getting active in a way that feels natural and satisfying for your body can look a lot of different ways. Try a new route in a particularly plant-filled, green space if you enjoy jogging, cycling, or a brisk walk. The air will feel cooler, sweeter, and more fragrant – and the shade will keep you protected from overheating. Or, if you enjoy an at-home workout, bring a plant into the room. Snake plants like our Sansevieria are natural air purifiers – and when you’re heart is pumping, inhaling healthy, fresh air is a reliable way to maximize the benefits of your workout. The cheery effect of flowers and plants in your fitness space can help your make the most of the endorphins that flood your body while you exercise. 
• Breathe deeply and rest up. Plants can be stimulating additions to your home or office, with proven benefits for your concentration and focus. Certain plants are also known to help soothe a worried mind and prepare you for a good night’s rest. Lavender, a beloved fragrant bloom, has been trusted in folk medicine for centuries to reduce insomnia and promote relaxed, deep sleep. Taking a nice deep breath with lavender in the room will lower your heart rate and blood pressure and calm your energy level to help balance your mind and prepare you for sleep. 

Take your pick of floral wonders at Allen’s Flower Market to promote well-being and say thank you to yourself. Stop by our floral design stores in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Reseda, or Sunland, or order yourself a beautiful bouquet online.