Friday, April 10, 2009
"There are certain items any green mom will tell you are absolutely necessary for a nursery. These include flat-pack furniture, wooden toys, flushable diapers and no-VOC paints. Yet these lists (and I’ve reviewed a few), always seem to neglect one obvious green inclusion – plants. Not only do plants add visual greenery to any room, they are great weapons in the fight against ‘sick building syndrome...
Plants can “scrub significant amounts of harmful gases out of the air, through the everyday processes of photosynthesis,” according to Extension Horticulturalist, Deborah L. Brown’s online article. Some of these harmful pollutants are also absorbed through the plant’s leaves and rendered harmless in the soil. But the key is allowing the plant and the soil it is potted in to work in tandem by removing any leafy growth close to the base as “micro-organisms in the soil become more adept at using trace amounts of these [once-harmful] materials as a food source..." to find out more...
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