The 10 Best Plants For Your Dorm Room
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The 10 Best Plants For Your Dorm Room

They clean the air, too.

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What’s a cool way to up your dorm-decor game? Plants! There are tons of benefits to having easy plants in your dorm room, and those can include reduced stress, air filtering, and many others.

We spend most of our lives indoors, but we don’t often think about the air that we are breathing in every single day. We normally think that outside air is what can be harmful to us, but the air that gets trapped in our houses with all of the fumes and chemicals of our everyday lives can easily make the air indoors just as bad for us. An easy way to filter the air in your room, especially a small and stuffy dorm room, is to have one of these easy to care for and impossible to kill plants.

Houseplants can also lead to reduced stress, and make any space instantly more attractive. It has been widely proven with science that people who have plants in their house or room have reduced levels of stress compared to those who don’t.

1. Peace Lily

Peace lilies are flowering plants that require simple and easy care, which is not something that you come across every day.

2. Aloe Vera

A plant with multiple healing properties and a unique shape, it’s almost impossible to kill unless you keep it in a dark closet.

3. Spider Plant

One of the most effective plants at filtering out pollutants in the home, the spider plant can’t do you wrong.

4. Monstera

My personal favorite plant—beautiful and easy to care for, you just have to be careful with how much you let it grow because it will take over the room.

5. Jade Plant

An interesting contender with a funky shape that is bound to spice up the room.

6. Succulents

Some of the absolute easiest plants to care for, succulents are adorable and look good everywhere. It’s no wonder why they’re so popular.

7. Cactus

Cacti are great additions to any home because you don’t have to travel to a desert to see one, you can own one right in your own room! As long as they have plenty of water, they are also really hard to kill.

8. Rubber Plant

Rubber plants are ideal because they can thrive in dark and cool surroundings and the occasional watering, which means that you can probably forget about it for awhile and it would be fine.

9. Ivy

If you’re looking for something fancier, ivy is the way to go. You can watch as your plant grows cute vines all over the place and you didn’t even have to do much work!

10. Philodendron

A staple of a houseplant, you can’t go wrong with a philodendron as a houseplant. Iconic and easy to maintain, it suits any style, anywhere.

Luckily, to add to the matter, all of these plants are pretty inexpensive to buy and maintain, so there’s really no reason to not go buy some. Why not bring some of the outdoors inside and reduce your stress and clean your air? Seems like a win-win to me.

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