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  What is a Plant Designer?

Interior landscape professionals are called plant designers, plantscapers, interiorscapers, or in less formal settings 'scapers. Most often this person is called a plant designer.

Designing with live foliage requires a combination of horticultural and design expertise. Plant designers make decisions on the planter style, plant variety, scale, and light conditions. On new construction projects plant designers usually work under the direction of the architect, interior designer, or general contractor. Plant designers often have educational backgrounds in design or horticulture.
 







 
Articles


Helping to Heal: Therapeutic Garden Design
Specifies Speak: Why Greenery is Good
Planting for Stars
Planters or furniture? New ideas to display plants.
Biophilia, Selling the Love of Nature
Green Buildings and Plants: An Introduction

Research


Indoor Plants Increase Worker Productivity
Indoor Plants Clean the Air
Health Benefits of Gardens in Hospitals
Plants Create a Consumer Habitat

  Case Studies:
Budco World Headquarters,
Robert Bosch Corporation

Resources

Space planning with Plants, a pictorial guide.
What is interior landscaping?
What is a plant designer?
What is a specimen plant?
How interior landscapes contribute to green building design.
Do plants harbor mold?

Resource Links

Botany and Plant Pathology Research Institutions
Horticultural Societies
Midwest Landscape Architecture Schools
Midwest Botanical Gardens
Office Furniture Dealers
Industry Links

 
Planterra: Integrating nature into office buildings, hotels, hospitals, shopping centers, and homes.



Planters or furniture? New ideas to display plants.
Biophilia, Selling the Love of Nature
Green Buildings and Plants: An Introduction






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