You’ve probably seen it all over Instagram, you might have been sucked into it yourself – people are crazy for indoor plants! But why is it such as obsession? Ash (a self-confessed plant addict) goes in focus this week on a few studies which might help explain it.
In our SNPit, Rosie takes us through some recent research investigating how bees can change the seasonal flowering of plants.


Read more about why you're obsessed with plants in the links below:

• A Study of Interior Landscape Plants for Indoor Air Pollution Abatement
• Stress-reducing effects of indoor plants in the built healthcare environment: The mediating role of perceived attractiveness
• Why more millennials are buying into 'plant parenthood'
• Put a ring on it? Millennial couples are in no hurry!
• Millennials prefer cities to suburbs, subways to driveways

Interested in bees? See below for more info on how they influence plants, and how you can help save the bees!

• Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce
• Bees force plants to flower early by cutting holes in their leaves
• 99% Invisible - On Beeing
• Save the Bees Australia: Bee the Cure

Music:

AhDah Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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