Today is the start of National Plants at Work Week when our members promote plants in the workplace. Out theme this year is to encourage members to build stalls filled with plants to encourage sales or give-aways of plants to promote the benefits of having plants in your office. Below are the pictures of the stand that we built to show off this message.

 8 July 2024

5 a Day with Vitamin Plant

Embrace Vitamin Plant for a Balanced Life

“Roll up, roll up!” plants@work is here. plants@work invites all plant enthusiasts to visit their market stall installations high-lighting the 5-a-day benefits houseplants bring to our work environment. The association’s pop-up market stall appeared at Theale Business Park showing off the five plants in the running for 2024 Favourite Houseplant which will be announced later this week.

Various research has shown that plants

• Improve your mood
• Reduce headaches by 45%
• Reduce tiredness by 32%
• Reduce stress levels by 50%
• And clean the air

Take a leaf out of nature’s book and indulge in your daily dose of Vitamin Plant – your mind, body and spirit will thank you for it!

The stall certainly caused interest, as designer, Ian Drummond, of Ian Drummond Botanical Designs with Shirley and James Smith of Botanica Nurseries created an eye-catching display and were all available for a chat and to answer questions from those who work at Theale Business Park.

Ian Drummond, Ian Drummond Botanical Designs with the plant stand

Ian said, “Ficus elastica, Strelitzia, Dracaena marginata, Croton and Scindapsus are our choice for 5 a Day – to ‘Embrace Vitamin Plant for a Balanced Life’. These plants offer a great selection for the various office, restaurant and hotel spaces that our members are asked to decorate.”

Shirley commented, “A market stall is a great way to show off the range of plants that plants@work members offer to clients for their office or other spaces and explain all the benefits of having them around you.”

The team: Shirley Smith, Botanica Nurseries, Joanna Hargreaves,paw Office, Ian Drummond, Ian Drummond Botanical Designs and James Smith, Botanica Nurseries

Kenneth Freeman of Purposeful Places and plants@work Chairman who felt the market stall was a valuable way to support the 5 a day message for this year’s National plants@work Week.

“Theale Business Park exemplifies the modern workplace environment, and we have received a warm welcome here and are grateful for the opportunity of speaking to those who work here. We invite our members to set up their own market stalls during this week. This event is a great opportunity to promote interior landscaping by engaging with office workers and encouraging them to add new green companions to their desks.”

Join us from 8 – 12 July and beyond to celebrate the amazing benefits that plants bring us all.

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Published by Hort Week: Plants@Work Week begins

and Pro Lanscaper: https://www.prolandscapermagazine.com/five-a-day-benefits-to-houseplants-at-work/