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I took an ice cold bike ride out to 25th and 5th Ave in BK to photograph the Weir Greenhouse. It’s a landmarked but very dilapidated victorian era commercial greenhouse. The photos are for my The Field Guide to Office Plants. Though it is now in the possession of Greenwood Cemetery it retains the atmosphere of …
One day in the 1960s this man, Cleve Backster, a polygraph expert, decided to see what would happen when he hooked up his lie detector machine to the Dracaena in his office. He found activity registered on his machine when the plant was watered. Activity was also registered when he lit a match. That …
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They are everywhere:
Here’s to the internet! While researching for my “Field Guide to Office Plants” booklet on Sansevieria, I found a digital copy of Plants of the coast of Coromandel: selected from drawings and descriptions presented to the hon. court of directors of the East India Company by William Roxburgh. (1795) On page 184 is a beautiful drawing …
I’ve been working on and off on this. My day job is in an office. We have some office plants that never see natural light.