1. The Impact of Flowers and Plants on Workplace Productivity Study was conducted by Roger Ulrich, Ph.D., Behavioral Scientist, Director of the Center for Health Systems and Design, Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. In an eight-month study, the Texas A&M University research team found that both women and men demonstrated more innovative thinking, generating more ideas and original solutions to problems in the office environment that included flowers and plants. In these surroundings, men who participated in the study generated 15% more ideas. And, while males generated a greater abundance of ideas, females generated more creative, flexible solutions to problems when flowers and plants were present.

2. Research conducted by Diane Relf of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute shows:

• People communicate better in the presence of flowers or plants, and they tend to eat more food more slowly when flowers are on the table
• Flowers restore people from mental fatigue and enhance self-esteem.
• Placing plants and flowers in a room significantly increases humidity, which reduces some of the effects of dry air such as common colds.