Choosing the Right Plant

Plants inside can be great—when they’re around our minds and our bodies work well—our cognitive performance and creativity go up, we get along better with other people, our stress levels fall—the list goes on and on.
To reap the most benefits from the plants in your world, make sure you include green leafy ones—cactuses and spikey plants just don’t have the psychological payoffs of Ficus plants and other gracefully curving, lushly leafed options.
You only want one or two, a few feet tall or so in any view you have across a space—more up visual complexity too much and make you tense.
There’s a bonus to using flowing plants, they’re especially good for our psyche when blossoms are present.
If you are just not good with plants, don’t despair, artificial plants can work as well as real ones—as long as they’re such good “fakes” that you need to reach out and touch them to see if they’re real or not.