Biophilia Expert Explains How to Pick the Right Office Plants | WSJ
Biophilia Expert Explains How to Pick the Right Office Plants | WSJ
Research shows that exposure to nature, even indoors, can help reduce stress. Biophilia expert Rebecca Bullene shows you how to pick the perfect plants (like the ZZ and the sansevieria) for your office and the best ways to take care of them.
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! PLANT NAMES ! in order (right to left):
-ZZ Plant: This plant will do well in low light*, day light** (luminous enough for you to read a book without turning on light), office/artificial lighting, bright light*** (luminous enough for you to shave or put on makeup without turning on light), or even filtered sun*** (shaded or passing through a curtain).
-Variegated Ripple Peperomia (not sure what variety): This plant needs bright light***, filtered sun****, and direct sunlight***** indoors
-Arrowhead Philodendron: This plant needs bright light*** or filtered sun****.
-Sansevieria/Snake plant (Not sure the specific variety, aerial view makes it look like the birds nest variety): This plant will do well in low light*, day light**, office/artificial lighting, or bright light***. (ANY KIND OF LIGHT BUT DIRECT SUN, it will fry in the sun)
-Jade Pothos (or another variety of Pothos): This plant needs day light** at least, bright light***, or filtered sun****.
-Variegated Arrowhead Philodendron: This plant needs bright light*** or filtered sun****.
*Low light – (office lighting with no sun or anything that falls lower than day light)
**Day light – (luminous enough for you to read a book without turning on light)
***Bright Light – (luminous enough for you to shave or put on makeup without turning on light)
****Filtered Sun – (sunlight that is shaded or passing through a curtain)
***** Full Sun – (exactly what it sounds like, full blasting sun that is not filtered)
Hit my line for plant questions, Gustavo.A.Orozco96@gmail.com
Please don’t trust most advice without meeting it with healthy skepticism.
Biophilia is not interior design.
Is/are footcandles the plant equivalent of cd/m2 candela screen brightness nits?
i appreciate my plants u know i meaaaannnnnnn daawwwwgg. yeah i smoke marijuana cigarettes.
Hmm… *nod* Uh-huh… *nod* Mhh… *nod* *nod* Yeaa… How about artificial ones? Just asking for a friend.
Bjork Who???
Only if I have trees on my desk 😹
Love imagining a mango tree on my work desk 🌳
No list of plants in the description or a link to an article on WSJ? C’mon.
0:10 Peperomia: Extremely slow growing medium to high light
0: 11 Satin pothos: Medium to high light
0:16 Pothos: SUPER EASY. Low to high light. Can grow in water.
0:51 Chinese evergreen aglaonema: low to medium light. Avoid sunlight.
0:58 Snake plant: Low light is ok but high light is better.
1:35 Arrowhead: Not recommended for beginners. It doesn’t like being relocated; drops leaves fast. Likes high humidity, root rots if kept moist too long.
3:09 ZZ plant. Slow growing. Likes 2-4 weeks of dry soil per month. Avoid keeping it wet. Low to high light. Get this plant.
MOST PLANTS DO NOT LIKE SWAMP-Y SOIL. HAVE PROPER DRAINAGE.
Or you can just use fake plants my fellow gamers
I cant found the apps 😔 any other suggestion?
Or judt buy ikea fake plant
Will someone tell me where is the CPU?
Footcandles? Jesus, americans could you meas stop with the stoneage measurements
“This is your sad lifeless desk”
I bring life by constantly scream and swear at my monitor. If that doesn’t count as life I don’t know what does
I’ll just get a fake plant
save yourself time search YouTube for biophilia and watch that video instead
What the heck is she wearing?
Bonsai?
Office plants
HEY @WallStreetJournal @WSJ how about you bring someone on who knows these plants and how to take care of them, not just what looks pretty. If the roots absorb the water and nutrients from the soil, why are you going based off the soil and not the roots?? For those about to spam a comment saying "well it has to be completely dry" or something like that its all in the leaves. Feel the difference in between when your plants need water and when they’re firm and full of body, thats the only way to gauge, cleaner than touching soil on an office desk too.
Surprising video, full of almost no information. Should have like 3,4 suggestions of plants, and which ones to use in what sort of lighting conditions..
I have a sanseviera and a cuctus on my desk 🌵🌱 #plantwhore
Who takes weekends off? 🙄 Lazy young adults
plant mom tip: every now and then, poke aeration holes in the soil around the plant with a chopstick- this helps the soil from getting too stuck together, and will make sure water goes all the way to the plant’s roots.
150 ft candles? Do candles that tall even exist?!
This is a very bad video
How do you choose an office plants that can withstand cold AC? Sansevieria & even pothos has perished within a month.. I watered them once a month as the soil were moist & cold but dry on the top at the same time… Help!!
Really? There is nothing new. Didn’t your parents teach you how to care about plants? Does tomatoes grow on Walmart shelves?
Easiest and laziest way is to plant a Pothos. Thrives in medium lighting condition and versatile in either soil or water potting for its semi-aquatic attribute. Just have a transparent half cut plastic bottle, fill it with water and place the plant stem in it. Give groundnut shells as added nutrients. You get to see the water level and fill it when needed. Finally watch it grow.
For an even low maintenance plant, get a Tillandsia (air plants). Sits nicely on a wire spiral or terrarium. Only needs to be fed with a spray or two of nutrient mix water from a misting bottle.
Fresh air, sky lights, Windows that open really help in offices,
wsj now needs plants too?
For stress relief in my office, I prefer my bottle of vodka hidden under the desk.
buys an Ikea plant instead
This is common sense – not a very good video
Just plant cannabis lol
Its a ad
why can it reduce stress?
There is a biophile that just moved into my neighborhood
The desk has no mouse?
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is it a good idea to a have a cactus on your desk?
What about the light itself? How do you know if the plants will grow under fluorescent lights, LED lights?
Not sure the demo office is medium light, more like low light to me
Ikea fake plant is good enough for me
Where are the plant names? Didn’t see them written in the video or description. Hard to make out the names when she says them 🤷♂️
Bad audio. Good contents.
Her eyes are sooooo beatuiful
Horrible sound quality
The last time I remember my boss was putting plants in her office with no air conditioning and in our country it’s 32°C outside, even when watered they still die… Amd there little to no amount od sunlight just heat…