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What do Plants do for Us?
23rd Feb 2015
A Infographic highlighting the benefits of having Healthy Green Plants in your workplace...
Plants can Talk
16th Feb 2015
Talking to plants was highlighted by Prince Charles. Now anyone with a computer or synthsizer can hear their plants talk, using a newly developed biofeedback machine called 'Midi Sprout' Four plants were used to produce a musical quartet, listen to it here...
Plant Profile - Devil's Ivy
9th Feb 2015
The Epipremnum also known as Schindpaisis or Devil's Ivy, has colourful green and yellow variegated leaves. It's soft heart shaped leaves make it a great gift to give on Valentine's day.As well as looking lovely, it also has excellent air cleaning qualities and researchers at NASA found it was o...
Office Plants make workers 15% more productive
10th Nov 2014
A recent study found that minimalistic uncluttered workplaces don't improve productivity. However when plants were added to sterile office interiors, an improvement in employee productivity of 15% was achieved. This challenges the current thin...
Plant Displays for Telford Academy School
13th Oct 2014
The newly built school in Telford was built to the highest environmental green standards and has been awarded a BREEAM excellent rating. The building was constructed using natural timber materials wherever possible and the green interior planting...
Employees vote for Plants
6th Oct 2014
We recently installed some plants to a part of an office building, staff in a nearby area that didn't have plants made the following comment ...."We currently have no Plants. We miss not having plants, they make the office feel like a nicer place to work and are...
Desk plants make you more productive
11th Aug 2014
Office plants offer "micro-restoration"--the chance for our brains to recharge throughout the day. 'There's a long line of evidence tracing how the brain benefits from nature'. Two recent studies hav...
Birmingham first in the UK to join the global green cities club
14th May 2014
Birmingham a city famous for its 'Black Country' industrial heritage recently joined a network of 'biophilic' cities celebrated for their green credentials, open spaces and links to nature. Birmingham is...
Could having plants in your office get you a promotion?
7th May 2014
Plants 'make workers 40% more productive and creative'Scientists from the University of Exeter found that plants at work increase productivity, aid concentration and boost staff wellbeing by 47%. Other studies have been conducted over a variety of...
Green cities message is being acted on
17th Apr 2014
A recent example of this is the new £189M Library that has been opened in Birmingham. The library features two roof gardens where 10,000 flowers and shrubs have been planted in the roof terrace flower be...