How To Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants To Purify Your Home Or Office

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Orion, Apr 20, 2020 - Gardening - 176 pages

An illustrated guide to the houseplants you need for clean and fresh air when you're stuck at home

How clean is the air you breathe?

Plants are the lungs of the earth: they produce the oxygen that makes life possible, add precious moisture and filter toxins. Houseplants can perform these essential functions in your home or office with the same efficiency as a rainforest in our biosphere.

In this beautifully illustrated guide, noted scientist Dr Bill Wolverton shows you how to grow 50 plants that filter the most common pollutants, making it easy for you to purify the environments that impact you the most.

 

Contents

DEDICATION
THE LIVING BIOSPHERE
A GROWERS GUIDE
THE PLANTS
GLOSSARY
Copyright

Other editions - View all

How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants that Purify Your Home Or Office
B. C. Wolverton
Snippet view - 1997
How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants that Purify Your Home Or Office
B. C. Wolverton
Snippet view - 1997
How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants that Purify Your Home Or Office
B. C. Wolverton
No preview available - 2008
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2020)

Dr B. C. Wolverton is a scientist who worked for NASA researching a breathable environment for a lunar habitat. He discovered that houseplants are the best filters of common pollutants.

Bibliographic information

TitleHow To Grow Fresh Air: 50 Houseplants To Purify Your Home Or Office
AuthorB.C. Wolverton
PublisherOrion, 2020
ISBN1398701173, 9781398701175
Length176 pages
Subjects › 

Gardening / House Plants & Indoor
Health & Fitness / Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene
Self-Help / Green Lifestyle
  
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