Office Plant of the Year

By this time next week an independent panel of judges will have named your Office Plant of the Year!The judges – Matthew Appleby of Horticulture Week, Adam Pasco of BBC Gardeners World Magazine and Claudia de Yong, award winning garden designer and regular contributor to Landscape Juice - will share their horticulture expertise to make the decision.So that prompts the question, “Have you voted for your top two desk-top plants yet?” It’s your chance to have your say and nominate the two plants you think work best in the office and fulfil the criteria:• Easy to maintain• Good for any location i.e. can tolerate light and shade• Popular with clients• Good at scrubbing the air – remember all plants remove toxins• Interesting plant – architectural structure or other reason• Good for desk tops – fulfilling research criteria – one plant improves mood and performancePlease send your nominations to Joanna at info@efig.eu.com by the end of this week to be included.

Great blog post, we have as plants people a big responsibility to share this knowledge.
The high percentage of people had cancer and all sort of baddies and were actually office workers is amazing.

I did few plants interior design for big firms ,High tech, and even head offices of pizza hat, and pizza domino , part of it was to help improve the staff volume of work by improving the environment, so included a plant for any table. (in one place they reported that it helped to increase sales- even to me it sound funny)

In most cases if the office was not designed to have plants there is not enough light for plants to grow well on most desks. So the case is to find plants that can look well for a long time as posible and when need to replace it.
round is good for karma and so as tidy plants.
paperomia with dark leaves variety - did well- tiny pot for small desks.
In my desk I useBaeucarnia wich we use more as a garden plant in Israel- (personally I do not like that garden monster but as a pot plant it is real tidy easy and well easy lasting (round too)

In many cases where more light was available we used alonema commutatum and several types of dracaene

another surprising very low light plant that I found doing well (but very slow) is the aspidestra but like to use it in big clamps in huge container combined with colorful dracenas
What may be low cost and short term solution is 'baby pal trees' such as fishtail palm, cycas and other young palm trees. most palm trees prefer low light when small and will last a year even in no light condition as they still have a big source in their big seeds and leaves.

I am also supply some of these plants to the garden centres these days so will be happy to help if anyone needs any.

"Plus it doesn't matter if we all know plants are better value. I'd make the point of this to the customer but if they want trough grown at the extra cost that's their choice I'd just do it"

"I've done 5ft Thorne troughs. Very easy to plant just got a mini digger dug the trench then drop them in couldn't be easier however £250 per m does seem expensive. "

Thought I'd sign up to this forum. And I hope I'm allowed to post stuff for sale on here as this will be a one off? I have for sale a tiny pro robot, it's not the new edition but it's the bigger one of the two. If anyone is interested then please…

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Ofer El-hashahar July 18, 2010 at 5:34pm

Great blog post, we have as plants people a big responsibility to share this knowledge.
The high percentage of people had cancer and all sort of baddies and were actually office workers is amazing.

I did few plants interior design for big firms ,High tech, and even head offices of pizza hat, and pizza domino , part of it was to help improve the staff volume of work by improving the environment, so included a plant for any table. (in one place they reported that it helped to increase sales- even to me it sound funny)

In most cases if the office was not designed to have plants there is not enough light for plants to grow well on most desks. So the case is to find plants that can look well for a long time as posible and when need to replace it.
round is good for karma and so as tidy plants.
paperomia with dark leaves variety - did well- tiny pot for small desks.
In my desk I useBaeucarnia wich we use more as a garden plant in Israel- (personally I do not like that garden monster but as a pot plant it is real tidy easy and well easy lasting (round too)

In many cases where more light was available we used alonema commutatum and several types of dracaene

another surprising very low light plant that I found doing well (but very slow) is the aspidestra but like to use it in big clamps in huge container combined with colorful dracenas
What may be low cost and short term solution is 'baby pal trees' such as fishtail palm, cycas and other young palm trees. most palm trees prefer low light when small and will last a year even in no light condition as they still have a big source in their big seeds and leaves.

I am also supply some of these plants to the garden centres these days so will be happy to help if anyone needs any.
Laura @ eFIG July 19, 2010 at 9:34am

Hi Ofer,

Thanks for your response. I agree that finding a plant which can survive and thrive in the office environment can be difficult, which is why we recommend using a contractor to install the planting rather than DIY.

You can email your suggestions for Office Plant of the Year to info@efig.eu.com