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Helpline for Pot Plants

Helpline for Pot Plants


Scientists have come up with a way for your pot plants to have a hot line to your mobile. What more could you want? Hannah Welham wonders whether it's really such a good thing to have your foliage calling you up every five minutes.

I don’t know about you but I can’t help but think that there’s something nicely therapeutic about house plants. Perhaps it’s their no-strings-attached, cosily comforting offer of a way to ‘get back to nature’ having just stepped off the tube. One simple donation of water gets you a freshly oxygenated apartment and some cheery leafiness next to the TV.

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