Indoor Gardens is an Australian interior plantscaping company that is very open about the MONA sub-irrigation systems they use. This is what my company did back in the 1970's and it was very well received in the marketplace. Customers and prospects viewed us as a progressive and client oriented company.
We used both MONA and Planter Technology systems. MONA was a Swedish company and the system was already mature technology in the '70s. How is it that we have so many people who think these systems are a recent invention that many view as new and untested? It's yet another reflection on our horticultural education.
Incidentally the MONA system is over-engineered in light of present day plastic molding technology. It could be produced much more economically today. Furthermore, the prices would come down dramatically if it were a consumer product. Some day, we will have a system like this available at retail but it's going to require a big step forward in our education.
If I were in the interior plantscaping business today, our company marketing would be heavily linked to use of this technology. It would be embedded in the company website and a major feature of social networking (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.)
Customers can relate to green practices. In this case, they improve quality, reduce client premise intrusion, conserve fuel, and conserve water and mark the company as environmentally aware and forward thinking.
Instead of promoting green business practices, most U.S. companies are still peddling the largely unproven air cleaning qualities of plants. This is in spite of the fact that higher executives in most companies view it as junk science.
The majority of U.S. interior plantscaping companies who use SIPs keep it a “trade secret”. I view this as a major missed opportunity that has contributed significantly to the decline of the industry.
via www.indoorgardens.com.au
Improve the appearance of your workspace or commercial office environment with living plants hired from Indoor Gardens. We are one of Perth’s most established living plant hire companies and are highly experienced in providing beautiful, lush plants for organisations around Western Australia.
Indoor Gardens makes it easy and affordable to create a more inviting business environment, enhance your company's image, boost employee morale, attendance and productivity, help reduce employee stress levels, and filter out airborne pollutants and odours with the expert use of live foliage.
We provide a full maintenance service for long-term rentals to ensure your plants are kept clean and well watered. All of our plants are installed using the Mona sub-irrigation technology from Europe, which requires top-up only every 3 weeks. As part of the maintenance service we conduct thorough quality control to ensure that the plants in your office environment are of the highest standards to keep your place of work bright and green.
Our plants come in attractive pots that can be matched to suit your office décor – we use lechuza, cottapot, ceramalite and fabulous foliage. Indoor Gardens range of planters are mostly Volatile Organic Chemical free, sub irrigated and in most cases 100% recyclable.
In addition to our long-term rental service, we also offer a short-term hire service for special functions throughout the metropolitan area, and can also convert your rental into permanent ownership should you decide to purchase the lush greenery we have provided for you.
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