Plants Where we Work

Plants at Work (PAW) is the name of an interior plantscaping industry website. I’ve always felt it should be a more inclusive name to encourage the use of indoor plants wherever we are.

Appropriate to Labor Day weekend, this post is about plants anywhere we work. I surfed through a slide show of all the photos in the Annotated Work Space group on Flickr. This was one of the few photos with a visible plant.

Monica , the owner of the work space is in Portugal. Two things were interesting to me. Even though the Dracaena marginata is center stage it isn’t annotated. Two, I wonder if she is using the glass globe to sub-irrigate it. I can see what looks like water residue on the glass.

As of this date, 564 members have posted 798 photos from a wide variety of places where they work. These are not just offices, as you will see if you view the slide show. Some of them are quite funny.

Of these 798 photos, I found about a dozen and a half with a plant visible in the workspace. That’s only about 2%. Obviously, this isn’t a scientific survey but it says a lot about the use of indoor plants in our lives.

We can likely attribute this to Black Thumb Syndrome(BTS).

Dr. Decor, A.S.I.D.

 
I really like where Dr. Decor (a.k.a. Barbara Kopitz) is coming from. As a professional interior designer, she offered a thoughtful and well-written response to an apartment dweller seeking to improve her environment.

For your apartment, add an indoor plant that you can watch grow and perhaps bloom. If not a bouquet, at least buy a fresh flower each week or perhaps a friend has a garden. You'll be amazed what even a single flower, placed in a spot you will see often throughout your day, will do for your apartment and your spirit.