Indoor plants that help to clean and/or purify the air

At Yard Designs and More we don't want to limit ourselves or especially you to just outdoor planters so we seek to offer different applications and types of planters and tons of ideas.  All of this revolves around you.

Our planters would be a great addition to any setting from the home to the office.  Entry way to the kitchen and excellent next to the grill with all your favorite herbs happily waiting.

But in this post lets just concentrate on on indoor plants that are not only appealing to the eye, they are beneficial to the health for their air cleansing and/or purification abilities.


The NASA studies generated the recommendation that you use 15 to 18 good-sized houseplants in 6 to 8-inch diameter containers to improve air quality in an average 1,800 square foot house. The more vigorously they grow, the better job they'll do for you.With the exception of dwarf banana, a fairly unusual plant in this area, the bulk of the list of plants NASA tested reads like a "Who's Who" of the interior plant world. They are:

Ficus benjamina (Weeping fig) (Information taken from the NASA report Interior Landscape Plants for Indoor Air Pollution Abatement, September 1989, by Dr. B.C. Wolverton, Anne Johnson, and Keith Bounds, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000.) H110I Reviewed 1/99  I will continue to add more as I find them in research so check back often for new ideas. This post was generated by Ricky.

Hedera helix   English ivy Chlorophytum comosum   spider plant Epipiremnum aureum   golden pothos Spathiphyllum `Mauna Loa'    peace lily Aglaonema modestum   Chinese evergreen Chamaedorea sefritzii   bamboo or reed palm Sansevieria trifasciata    snake plant Philodendron scandens `oxycardium'   heartleaf philodendron Philodendron selloum   selloum philodendron Philodendron domesticum    elephant ear philodendron Dracaena marginata   red-edged dracaena Dracaena fragrans `Massangeana'   cornstalk dracaena Dracaena deremensis `Janet Craig'   Janet Craig dracaena Dracaena deremensis `Warneckii'   Warneck dracaena Ficus benjamina  weeping fig