Owning house plants is now a hot and happening trend among millennials and Gen Z. For many, possessing and caring for verdure which includes the snake plant has become one of the newest ways that younger generations are incorporating contemporary interior designs in their daily lives, while simultaneously flaunting a green thumb.
Glen Cummings, a plant salesman at Gift Flowers and Plants, which is located on Red Hills Road in St Andrew, told that the demand for popular plants such as the Sanseveria has much to do with the durability of the plant as well as its filtering quality.
"It doesn't take many things for it to survive. In other words, it's a hard plant. Secondly, you already know in terms of cleaning the atmosphere and you know it's not very wide and humongous. So you know most people are moving to clusters of apartments now, all you youngsters won't have no fancy lawn and stuff like older folks, so the snake plant comes in handy. It's a little more compact so you have less hassle with it," Cummings reasoned.
Invoking imagery of health and growth through flourishing wildlife, the trend of owning plants has been picked up by the likes of influencers like Tanaania Tracey who has described herself as a 'plant mom'. "I know some of you guys who know have been following for the longest time remember me always saying I cannot keep living things alive. It is now crazy that I probably have 40 plants or more right now that are living," she proclaimed on her YouTube channel.
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