National Plants Week celebrates WFH
Plants are good for us wherever we work and this year's National Plants at Work Week sponsored by Koberg Bv.and taking place from 13 – 17 July, is concentrating on helping those who have found the last few months harrowing.
From worrying about catching COVID-19 to passing it on, plus missing loved ones and concerns over job and business security, lockdown has certainly made many of us a mental mess.
But there could be a simple solution to ease our pain. Several studies have shown that houseplants help to reduce mental stress at work. So during this week, plants@work will be encouraging everyone to use plants in their home or commercial offices to help reduce stress levels ... a perfect PR campaign for florists and garden centres and with loads of good information on their website to help you put together a quick campaign you could easily latch onto it from tomorrow!
Because National Plants at Work Week are promoting the fact that everyone should have houseplants as part of their home office set up. Knowing that being able to see houseplants from a desk has a very positive effect on our mental health makes them an easy decoration choice. In fact they are saying they are an essential need rather than just decoration.
Plants@work Chair, Madeleine Evans of Tivoli Services confirms that houseplants in your home office are beneficial, “Bringing the outside in ensures we are surrounded by nature, something we innately crave, and helps to keep us calm. Houseplants also freshen the air, improve our productivity and up our creativity. All positive reasons to include houseplants in your home-working set-up and why I recommend plants wherever people work.”
Their featured home office belongs to plants@work Ambassador Ian Drummond of Indoor Garden Design who created the stunning and oh so easy to achieve IKEA installations at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and is part of the national campaign being run this week.
