Posts from April 17th, 2026
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Adding Houseplants to Your Home Can Help Banish Cabin Fever
During my teenage years, the one and only houseplant my family had was a snake plant, commonly known as a mother-in-law plant or mother-in-law's tongue. It sat in a small pot in the living room and followed my mother from that house through a couple of moves and finally to the apartment she lived in before passing away.
The plant is known for its sword-shaped, green-striped leaves with yellow margins and is considered low-maintenance. Unbelievably, 50 years later, the plant or a cutting from it (we're not quite sure) now lives at my brother's home and has grown considerably from its original pint size into a large four-foot-tall specimen. It's most likely survived all these yea...