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The Perfect Recipe For Wellness: Seven Plants Per Person

 

Along with baking bread and stocking up on toilet paper, bringing more plants into our lives and living spaces can have a wonderful rejuvenating and purifying effect, especially in the spring! 

Here are some articles on the topic to get you resonating with all green growing things. 

Seven benefits of having plants in your office

Numerous scientific studies have proven the positives of having more greenery in your workspace. Here are the top seven benefits for employees – and their employers

  1. Less stress

  2. More productivity

  3. Less sickness

  4. Attractive spaces

  5. Clean air

  6. Reduce noise

  7. Boost creativity

Seven BEST LOW-MAINTENANCE plants for the WORKPLACE

  1. English Ivy

  2. Snake Plant (also known as mother-in-law’s tongue...sometimes you just can’t win!)

  3. Spider Plant

  4. Bamboo Palm

  5. Weeping Fig

  6. Peace Lily

  7. Heart Leaf Philodendron

Seven plants per person

How many plants do you need in a room? In an average 13 x 16’ room:

  • One plant provides a little mental wellbeing

  • Five plants provide 60% more mental wellbeing

  • Ten plants maximize health and wellbeing benefits

  • With varying levels of benefit, maybe we can just say: “Seven” !

 
Kevin MasiTorque