Try taking on a few plants or starting anindoor garden, which could boost your mood.

You look outside, it’s very barren now [in the wintertime].

The trees and everything, the leaves, everythings gone.

Room with snake plants and hanging monstera

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Knuth suggests gettingpothosorsnake plantsbecause they can survive inlow-light environments.

Evenfake plantshave an impact.

It’s almost like a return to nature, Knuth says.

This is why were seeing these subconscious health effectswe don’t even have to know that they’re happening.

Just [plants] being around can help us.

“Seasonal Affective Disorder.

2019; 37(1):3038.