Posts Tagged ‘decorating with plants’
Decorating with Plants: Ethan Allen & Elvin McDonald’s Green Inspiration
Take a Plant to Cope with Stress On this day, Ethan Allen and Elvin McDonald of House Beautiful (ww.housebeautiful.com) gave an inspiring presentation called “Decorating with Plants.” McDonald revealed many new decorating-with-plant ideas. Keep in mind; this was three decades before Instagram. Otherwise, McDonald would have no doubt share photos of the over 300 plants…
Read More“Take a Plant, Not a Pill”: The Revolutionary Garden Therapy of 1977
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 10, 1977 On this day, the horticultural world witnessed a most audacious declaration that plants—yes, mere foliage—might serve as an alternative to pharmaceutical interventions for one’s mental distress. One can hardly contain…
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