Magic Gardens

Building a bridge between man and mother nature one plant at a time.

San Antonio, TX, 78223 United States

(210) 332-7545

With more than 30 years of gardening experience, Magic Gardens is specialized in providing high quality interior and exterior plant design and maintenance by using a host of organic plant growth and development techniques.

NASA Research Focuses on Living Plants

September 03, 2014  /  Magic Gardens

We all may be breathing a lot easier thanks to promising NASA research on a most sophisticated pollution-absorbing device:  the common office and house plant. The Interior Plantscape Division of the Associated Landscape Contractors of America has joined with NASA in a two-year program to study the effectiveness of popular office plants in cleaning indoor air.  NASA research on indoor plants has found that living plants are so efficient at absorbing contaminants in the air that some will be launched into space as part of the biological life support system aboard future orbiting space stations.  Dr. Bill Wolverton, a NASA research scientist, believes that NASA's findings about indoor plants have some down-to-earth applications for cleaning dirty indoor air.  He estimates that 5 to 20 Golden Pothos and Spider Plantscan clean and refresh the air in the average 1,800 square-foot home.

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