Office rooms are characterized by cool air due to the constantly working air conditioner, increased dust (despite the fact that wet cleaning is carried out with enviable regularity, working computers and lack of ventilation play a role). Special plants for the office will help to improve the atmosphere, and large companies allocate a huge amount of money for this.
General requirements for plants in the office
The main advantage of using plants, rather than special equipment, is that they not only clean the air from pollution, but also utilize carbon dioxide and saturate it with oxygen. In addition, many plants can secrete volatile production - active substances that can remove bacteria from the air, which is very valuable during epidemics.
When choosing plants, it is recommended to be guided by the following rules:
- Appearance plays almost the main role. The plant should not have any deviations, in particular, dried leaves or flowers, bare stems, crumbling petals and stained leaves.
- Flowers for the office should not emit a strong aroma, in addition, they must be absolutely hypoallergenic. If you decide to put your favorite plant on your desktop, remember that it will affect your colleagues and visitors, which is why it should be absolutely safe.
- Plants should be unpretentious in care. It is unlikely that you will be able to allocate enough time to periodically fertilize and water them, and nobody canceled the weekend or vacation.
No need to choose bright and catchy plants for the office, as they will distract from work.
In addition, flowers can also be used as a division into functional zones in the office (large types in pots are suitable for this), but if the office is small, they can only interfere.
Rules for designing an office with flowers
If the office is large enough and you want to create a single composition, it is better to entrust this to an experienced florist, since there are certain rules for combining various plants. In particular, the design of the office with flowers should be in harmony with the design of the room itself.
When choosing the shape and size, the area of the room is taken into account, since in large rooms you can easily design large compositions and they will not clutter up the space.
Small elegant vessels will look good, and they will not violate the functionality of the situation.
If you want to get not just a tool for improving the air in the office, but also an original decor, you need to carefully approach the choice of each plant, and the process is painstaking and long.
Which plants are suitable
Here are unpretentious flowers for the office.
- Sansevieria or pike tail. This plant is ideal for offices, because it tolerates drought and drafts well, and any temperature can withstand, which is very valuable in the conditions of constant operation of air conditioners. Another undoubted advantage is that sansevieria can live without a transplant for a long time.
- Philodendron. This plant is characterized by unpretentiousness in care and a long lifespan, it can grow even under the constant influence of fluorescent lamps. And it always looks great, even if you left it for a vacation to a careless colleague.
- Scindapsus. It perfectly tolerates artificial lighting and low humidity - the main characteristics of any office. Also will not fade if you forget to water it on time. An ideal place is a cupboard or shelf.
- Spathiphyllum. It is considered one of the best air purifiers in the office space. These office flowers tolerate poor lighting and dry air well. But you still need to water it constantly, because with a lack of moisture its leaves become drooping.
- Cactus. If you constantly forget to pamper your pet with water, a cactus is exactly what you need. This is a great flower on the office table, because you can choose the kind that you liked, and there are a huge number of them: mammillaria, echinopsis, prickly pear. They also do an excellent job with the negative energy radiated by technology. However, it is worth remembering that cacti love sunlight, although they also feel good under the rays of artificial lamps.
Potted trees
Now many crops can be grown in a pot, such as lemon or maple.
The first option is suitable for offices that are decorated in a classic or French style. Also suitable when the room lacks some bright accent. Lemon is able to increase the efficiency of the team, helps to cope with numerous stresses and prevents respiratory diseases.
Indoor flax, or abutolin, is a flowering plant that, like no other, is suitable for offices. The main advantage is bright flowers that look favorably on the background of leaves. This plant not only enriches the air with oxygen, but also moisturizes and purifies it. However, this plant is suitable only for large premises.
And the giants will come ...
Indoor flowers for the office, such as dracaena and ficus, feel good about themselves. They can even replace such popular plants as palm trees. Their main advantages are unpretentiousness, as well as the ability to neutralize harmful substances such as formaldehydes and ammonia in the air.
Other plants
The list of plants goes on and on. For example, bonsai trees have been very popular lately.
They combine office flowers and man-made forms, because by caring for this plant, you can find peace, which is especially necessary when you are more than 12 hours in a room with the same people.