One of my favourite plants, that isn’t a succulent, are Peace Lilies. They don’t need that much water, and they are easy to care for. In this post, I will cover all the tips and favs about Peace Lilies, and I promise I won’t write a whole rant about each fact. Here it is:
To water a Peace Lily, you usually have to wait until the leaves start drooping down a lot, water it, and fairly soon, the leaves will perk up again. If you are using water that has chemicals (like chlorine) in it, you will want to fill up a bottle of water the night before you plan to water it so that the chemicals can evaporate out, because Peace lillies are very sensitive to chemicals. Another thing that you can do to look after your Peace Lily is to turn over the soil when you water it, just to aerate the soil a bit. You don’t have to, but it may help your Peace Lily to thrive a bit more.
At night, A Peace Lily will continue to function even without sunlight. So if your air conditioner breaks and Carbon Monoxide goes into the air, a Peace Lily will neutralise it as much as it can, so when you think about it, a Peace Lily can save your life. NASA even did a study and rated them in the top 10 air purifying plants, which is quite good.
One thing to note about Peace Lily’s is that they do have flowers, but not every plant will grow them. When at a nursery, they probably will have flowers and eventually they will die. But I will be hard for them to grow back. And why is that? Usually nurseries will give them fertiliser, which is not available to the general public. So if your Peace Lily does grow a flower, give yourself a pat on the back. The flowers on Peace Lilies usually last about two months, so really appreciate the flowers while they’re there. However, they look pretty enough without flowers anyway.
When your Peace Lilies leaves start to go brown and look a little rotten, remove them as soon as possible to avoid any disease getting to your Peace Lily.
Peace Lillies prefer temperatures that most humans like as well, so they probably won’t survive somewhere really hot or somewhere really cold. You should also try and not put a Peace Lily near doors that will keep opening or closing, or just anywhere where they will get a draft.
One last thing to note is that Peace Lilies do like sun, it’s best to keep them about 1.5 meters away from a window, to avoid burning the leaves. You should also turn the plant every so often just so there is even light distribution. Quite often the leaves go brown and crispy from too much light as well.
I hope that you’ve learned something from this post, or that you are now considering getting a Peace Lily now!
Thank you for reading and I’ll talk to you in the next post!
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