Feeling blue? Stifled? Here's a plant.

The Trib's got it ... an article on how bosses buying plants makes for happy employees.

I'm a big fan of what Costa Farms is doing to promote plants as good for you -- its O2 For You campaign. And they have a Facebook group for the project. That's doubly good. They're contacting the right demographic with the right medium. Nice.

Automation Magic

We are way in the middle of production of our July issue (it's HUGE), but I had to take a break and post this. I wrote a story for this issue on automation and was looking through some stock images we have to go along with it.

Stumbled across this short video I took of the packaging automation at Dummen in Germany. The breeding facilities in Europe are also the young plant growers, so they need to move product. I visited this facility more than a year ago, now, with the National Floriculture Forum. We were all hypnotized. Pretty cool.