R.e.a.d e-knjige How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green
Space in Your Home and Heart
By Summer Rayne Oakes
Potted plants aren't mere decoration; they offer a rare opportunity to find joy by
caring for another living being. Summer Rayne Oakes keeps over 750 live
houseplants spanning 400 species in her Brooklyn apartment. She's an
environmental scientist, an entrepreneur, and (according to a New York Times
profile) the icon of wellness-minded millennials who want to bring nature
indoors. She even installed a sub-irrigation system and helpful watering hacks,
such as a 150-foot expandable hose that connects to pipes under her kitchen
sink, so she only has to spend about a half-hour a day tending to her plants--an
activity that she describes as a "moving meditation."This isn't an interior design
book about hanging ivy on your window sills. It's about the real reasons that it's
good for you to bring plants inside. Most people think that the common potted
plant is just a decorative object, but there's also a strong psychological benefit to
taking care of plants as a path to mindfulness.
