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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Boost Your Productivity with Plants?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Can plants boost your productivity? A study suggests that office workers are 15% more productive with plant-filled rooms...in this episode I give you 5 plants to consider to harness the power of nature in the office. Keep growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today's an interesting

0:05.3

episode. I decided to do a bit of a free-form one. I read a study by some

0:11.5

researchers at Exeter University and they found that office workers who

0:17.1

filled their workspaces with houseplants experienced a 15% bump in productivity.

0:24.0

Now, these types of studies, they're not always perfect, are they?

0:28.2

I know that, you know that.

0:29.8

However, it seems implausible that adding house plants would make you less productive, and I

0:36.6

know personally that my own brother just asked me yesterday, hey, what plants can I put in my home, my office at work that do well in low

0:45.9

light? I just want to feel a bit more nature in there and I don't really have anything. I don't

0:50.6

really know what to do. So I'm going to run through five different plants that you can add to your home office,

0:58.2

your actual office, your cubicle, wherever you're at in the world when you do work to hopefully make you feel a little bit better mentally

1:05.2

hopefully stimulate your brain a bit and hopefully help you just sort of get into the flow at work feel more at peace

1:12.0

when you're grinding away behind a computer or whatever else you're doing.

1:16.6

Now the first one is Golden Pothos.

1:20.8

Pothos is one of the best house plants in my opinion for beginner growers.

1:25.7

It is extremely easy to care for.

1:28.3

You can almost completely forget about it and it will do just fine.

1:32.1

According to... it will do just fine.

1:33.2

According to NASA and a couple of other research institutions,

1:38.8

Pothos as well as some of the other house plants on this list

1:42.0

are filterers of toxins in the air.

1:45.0

in the air.

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