Scientists Reveal the Four Types of Plant Owners [Video]

Feeling a bit attached to your house plants? If so, you’re certainly not alone.

People are said to commonly have an “engaged relationship” with their indoor plants, and “not all indoor plant-people relationships are equal,” new research has shown.

Scientists have found that plant owners have one of four types of relationships with their indoor plants. They include “highly connected, engaged, limited engagement, and no relationship,” the researchers explained in a recent study published in Plant-Environment Interactions.

The study, which surveyed 115 indoor plant owners in Australia in 2020, observed the perceived benefits of owning indoor plants and how plant owners describe their relationships with them.

Researchers found that “people exhibit varying levels of connection and engagement with their plants” and their findings “provides preliminary evidence that individuals are aware of many of the benefits of indoor plants and that not all indoor plant-person relationships are the same.”