Our award-winning designer will work with you to create an interior environment that reflects a professional image and will complement your existing furniture and layout. Our designer selects plants that will bring out the best features of any area, direct traffic, fill voids, provide privacy and promote sound absorption all while creating an environment to promote comfort, beauty and workplace productivity.

Before we install any plants, our designer visits your facility to insure that all factors have been taken into consideration that would affect your design such as lighting, heating, cooling, traffic flow and interior design. Then we develop an interior plantscape plan that compliments your facility.
When skillfully arranged interior plants help to soften and enrich the open spaces in such areas as offices, atriums and lobbies.

As living members of your business, plants are benefiting in many ways:

•  They create a positive corporate environmental image
•  Plants cleanse the air of impurities, lower the amount of dust and aid in humidity control.
•  They encourage productivity by increasing contentment with working space.
•  Plants stimulate the mind, encourage creativity and project a fresh image.

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Many questions have been raised about the quality of the air, both inside and outside of our homes and businesses. B usinesses now are realizing that interior plants are a natural and vital part of a productive workplace environment and have added plants as living members of their business – boosting morale, building employee contentment and promoting productivity.

Scientists have found that the “Sick Building Syndrome” was caused by indoor air pollution, consisting of particles and gases trapped in building air that is not circulated or filtered properly. Effective energy-efficiency buildings exacerbate this problem. Through an in-depth study sponsored by NASA, it was determined that indoor plants in a closed, controlled environment were able to extract pollutants from the air. The foliage of indoor plants was capable of removing low levels of pollution, while plant roots, assisted by an activated carbon filter removed air pollutants at higher concentrations.

Astonishingly, the filters around plant roots removed the biologically degraded pollutants before they accumulated; an advantage over advanced-technology carbon filters which removed pollutants from the air, but required careful disposal. The NASA -funded studies directed by Dr. B. C. Wolverton, a 20 year veteran in horticultural research, proved that plants commonly used in interior plantscaping cleanse the air of many harmful pollutants such as formaldehyde, benzyne and trichloroethylene. Further research is determining the efficacy of indoor plants in cleaning up large particle common indoor air pollutants, such as asbestos; pesticides; carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other gases; chemicals from detergents, solvents, and cleaning fluids; fibers released from clothing, furnishings, draperies, glass, carpets, and insulation; fungi and bacteria; and tobacco smoke.

Material distributed by the Plants For Clean Air Council (PCAC), demonstrates that plants remove pollutants in varying quantities depending upon the species. The PCAC recommends one potted plant for each 100 square feet of floor space.

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