melbourne international flower & garden show

lifestyle

The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (MIFGS) in 2010 has attracted huge crowds, with more people attending the five-day floral and landscape fest this year than over the past few years. The show ran from March 24th – 28th.

The official crowd tally was 110,234 people which exceeded last year’s show by several thousand. ...

office plants

lifestyle

In the 1980s, the first research into the benefits of office plants was conducted. The conclusion? There’s a bunch! In the years since, further studies have been driving home the slew of benefits a little office foliage will bring to your world. Some of them are quite surprising.

Being cooped up indoors all day goes against our nature. Where were human beings 500 years ago? 1000? 5000? 10 000? 200 000? – we’ve evolved in a symbiotic relationship with our environment (spending our lives indoors is a very recent concept) so it’s only natural for us to share a connection with nature but there’s much more to it than a simple prehistoric partnership. ...