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Office Plants

Improve Your Life

Office plants are a now an accepted and highly attractive part of the office environment, providing colour and life in otherwise sterile spaces. Whilst adding to the design and aesthetics of working environments, office plants also work to improve offices in more tangible ways, such as improved health and increased productivity among the workers.

By featuring office plants in your building design not only do you benefit from their attractiveness, which creates a more livable and personalized environment but also office plants can also be used to create different types of space and act as screens in open-plan offices.

Plants also improve air quality by removing air pollutants. Many of these pollutants are emissions from synthetic fabrics, furnishings, paints, glues and computer terminals.

Great Design effects can be obtained from plants with variegated or colored foliage. It is always important to have a good natural light source for your plants. Useful and attractive plants include:

Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina) is an effective air purifier which is suited to a large open space like an atrium, preferably with high light levels. Watering levels need to be adjusted if they are not able to get the right amount of natural light.

Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum cv.) grows well in low light and is ideal as an underplanting beneath the Ficus. Besides being an efficient remover of many chemicals, it is one of the most efficient at removing bioeffluents.
Aglaonema 'Silver King', with its variegated leaves, is useful for adding accents to the plain green of an indoor plant arrangement. Variegated leaf plants have a higher light requirement.

Kentia Palm (Howea forsteriana) is one of the best plants for removing volatile air-borne pollutants. It prefers a well-lit situation.

Dracaena deremensis 'Janet Craig' is a very hardy plant which grows in low light and copes well with air-conditioning. It removes a wide range of chemical vapours.

Areca Palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens) is the best of the plants tested at removing the xylene and toluene emissions which are released from adhesives, caulking compounds, computer VDUs, paint and particle board.