Interior Landscape Management and Design

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Interior Landscape Management and Design

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Introduction

• The need for plants
• Value of foliage plants
• The future
• Kinds of plants used
• Where to use plants

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The need for plants

• Integral part of contemporary design
• Necessary

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The Need for Plants

• Green Plant Revolution
• Fill a psychological need
• Enhance environment
• Satisfying hobby
• Additional factors

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Fill a psychological need

• Primal need
• Humans and a close association with plants
• Natural environmental harmony
• Greencolor of peace
• Humanizing effect
• Care for living things

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Enhance Environment

• Improving personal environment
• Aesthetics
• Warmth
• Color
• vitality visual
• Sculpture or living art
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Enhance environment

• Functional
• Directing traffic
• Screens
• Controlling views-directing the eye
• Softening harsh architectural surfaces
• Reduce large areas to human scale
• Sound buffers
• Give off oxygen, absorb gases

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Satisfying Hobby

• Exercise and relaxation
• Mental and physical well being
• Sharing interests

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Additional Factors

• Increase in personal income
• Readily available
• Related products also available
• Advertising by media
• New plant introductions
• Plant development and technologies
• Emerging related businesses

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Value of Foliage Plants

• 1300 increase in wholesale value between 1971
  and 1994
• 1971 37.6 million
• 1994 487 million
• 2000 574 million
• 2001 585 million
• 2003 623 million
• 2004 616 million

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The Present, The Future

• Increase in household incomes
• Increases in homes
• Increase in businesses
• Formation of subsidiaries from larger companies
• Government regulations
• Future growth

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Kinds of Plants Used

• Tropical
• Subtropical
• Flowering potted plants
• Cacti and succulents

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Where to Use Plants?

• Anywhere the environmental requirements are
  satisfied.