J ust beyond the front door of the Montessori School at Five Canyons, a square glass-walled foyer is brimming with verdant houseplants in clay pots. Garden sculptures and glazed ceramic art are interspersed throughout. Above it all floats the looped sound of softly chirping birds. This lush tableau provides a fitting transition between the world outside and the carefully controlled atmosphere w...

This paper provides a structural empirical analysis of Dutch auctions of houseplants at the flower auction in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. The data set is unique for Dutch auctions in the sense that it includes observations of all losing bids in an interval adjacent to the winning bid. The size of this interval is determined by the speed of reaction of the auction participants. The data on losing...

An experiment was carried out during July 2022 to December in Shade net, Department of Horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj, Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with different Monocot Ornamental plants replicated three times. This houseplants that are also known remove harmful chemicals from the air, formaldehyde being its chemical choice air. Different used this experment were Philodendron ceylon, w...

This article looks at interest-driven and informal social media practices that have flourished in the pandemic period its ensuing renaissance of domesticity. It investigates how tending plants discussing them on serve as a particular site for connecting around loving taking care plants. Its focus is discursive means with which posters – guided by algorithms rhetorically co-construct morally acc...

In this study we investigated by means of the "same-different" decision task the process of comparing visual stimuli (schematic faces, familiar objects, houseplants, and nonsense figures) when presented for 100-150 msec to the right or to the left visual hemifields. The analysis of incorrect "same" responses showed that the addition of a common component (e.g., glasses, buttons) to a pair of no...