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December 16, 2006
Plants that Clean the Air Inside Our Homes
You may think the air inside your home is clean, even safe. But you would be mistaken.
You don't have to purchase a expensive air purifier though, how about a few houseplants?
Think about the way nature does it. Even though the air outside our homes is full of car
emissions and jet pollution, nature has a way of balancing out what we do to her. The
plants outside clean the air giving back oxygen. Infact NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America did a two year study that confirmed that plants do indeed clean our air inside and out.
All plants will clean the air, but some are better at it than others. Here are some that not only clean the air, but are easy to grow:
- Ivy especially English
- Ferns
- Peace lily
- Spider Plants
- Dracaenas, Lucky Bamboo isn't really a bamboo but a Dracaena
Course, for them to clean the air properly you will need one plant per 100 square feet.
Now doesn't that make you breathe easier?
Heavy Petal Plant Pick brought to you by Skinner Nurseries, Marietta:
Eleanor Craig, owner of Fern Ridge Farms Nursery called in with her pick, Helleborous niger. The Christmas Rose. For more information go to www.fernridgefarmnursery.com or give her a call at 770 479 6996
My Special Guest was Rex Bishop lead instructor for The Horticultural Envirment Progam at North Metro Technical College in Acworth, GA.
Rex is also partening with the City of Kennesaw, GA to manage the Smith-Gilbert Arboretum. He also wrote a textbook entitled, 'A Field Guide to Woody Landscape Plants of the Southeast'. Not only is it in it's second printing but nine different colleges are using it for their plant identification classes.
Recipe of the week:
With culinary expert Virginia Willis : Pot a fuex
Special Organic Segment:
Dick Bynes of Bynes Blueberries. Georgia's largest family owned organic blueberry farm.
Dick gave his choices for our southern gardens. Dicks best picks for blueberry cultivars are:
Tift Blue, Climax, Southern Blue and Blue Bell. For more information on Bynes Blueberries
go to www.bynesblueberries.com
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Posted on Monday, December 18, 2006 (Archive on Monday, January 01, 0001)
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