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#GreenHomeProject_Part.3 The reason there are plants in the kitchen ‘Honey! The man in the house next door…’ Outside the small window in the kitchen, there is an adjacent apartment building across the street, and the living room is clearly visible. While my husband was doing the dishes, he saw a man walking around his living room naked through this window. This wasn’t the first time. He said he had seen a man walking around his living room naked through this window several times. My husband is not a voyeur, of course. He just happened to have his eyes focused on that place unintentionally! Fortunately or unfortunately, my eyesight is bad, so I can’t see the house across the street through the window, but instead, I look at the light-colored fluorescent scindapsus on the shelf next to the window and the oxycardium on the windowsill while doing my kitchen work. Somehow, I have been a housewife for 13 years, and even if I am a nominal housewife who can’t cook and doesn’t know how to cook, I can’t help but become familiar with the kitchen. Unless my family starves, someone has to take charge of the kitchen, and in the end, it becomes my job… Fortunately, even while doing kitchen work that doesn’t give me much fun, I often find myself staring blankly at the plants and before I know it, the work is over. There are plants in my kitchen, next to the table where I sit around eating and drinking tea with my family. The area where the sink is located faces north, so even though there is a window, it is not very bright during the day. The only plant that can survive in this level of light is the lime pothos. The fluorescent lime pothos brightens up the dark kitchen instead of lighting. The lime pothos is a particularly bright and vivid lime green compared to regular plant leaves, creating the illusion that it is truly fluorescent. Sometimes, when it feels like it, it shows off its charm by mixing patterns with dark green. The lime pothos can live and grow well in the shade and is said to have an excellent air purifying effect, making it the perfect plant to grow in the kitchen. It’s poisonous, so don’t eat it. On the partition separating the kitchen and living room is Oxycardium Brazil. This one looks very similar to Scindapsus. Some people have trouble telling the difference, but Scindapsus has larger and thicker leaves and stems than Oxycardium. Also, Oxycardium is a little rounder and heart-shaped. Oxycardium also lives well in the shade just like Scindapsus, and it has no difficult corners, making it the easiest and most gentle plant. It came in two or three stems three years ago, but it has grown like a sapling. I like the shape of the tree, which has grown densely like a green waterfall flowing down. Next to the table is Xenadu Selem, known as the ‘eye-catcher.’ With its free-spirited shape, it completely monopolizes the space next to the table. Not long after I started growing plants, I saw a picture and fell in love with Selem’s leaves. After searching for Selem and finally bringing it in, I felt something was wrong. The Selem that I wanted to buy because I was in love with it was not actually Zenaduselem, but Hopeselem, which had deeper and larger leaves than this one. I didn’t like myself that day because I didn’t know what to do, but after a day or two, I came to praise myself for bringing home Zenaduselem, which has small but lush leaves that are more attractive the more I look at it (of course, I brought back Hopeselem later on). Selem is a really cool plant that grows a sapling where the leaves fall off as it ages. So there’s no need to be afraid of removing the lower leaves. It’ll get even better! Looking back like this, there isn’t a single plant that doesn’t have memories. Just as people have stories to tell, even if they don’t tell me, plants come to me with stories and create memories with me. What kind of story will they tell me today? I open my eyes and listen. #Record Club #그린홈프로젝트 #주방식물 #주방인테리어 #홈카페존 #스킨답서스 #제나두셀렘 #옥시카르디움브라질