Good Earth Plant Company Tips

The horticultural experts at Good Earth Plant Company have years of experience caring for plants and creating exceptional designs to enrich peoples’ lives with plants. Our experts generously share their advice with readers who want to improve their plant care methods to be more successful in helping their plants thrive and stay healthy.

Our website contains an extensive FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions section. The most common questions asked by clients are included in each section.  If you don’t see your question answered, we invite you to contact us.

Our award-winning blog page discusses new topics weekly. Our most popular blog posts share our best tips on plant selection, plant care, and interior design.

There are several simple design changes easily made in workspaces and homes. Call us biased, but the easiest, quickest, and most cost-efficient way is the addition of plants into your environment. Natural light, plants and vegetation, living walls, natural textures and materials, and views of nature  all provide a positive impact.

With our advice, anyone can learn the basics about taking care of their own indoor plants. We want everyone to enrich their lives with plants, whether or not you ever become a Good Earth Plant Company client. Their benefits are too great not to share. Living and working in an environment that includes plants reduces carbon dioxide levels and lowers stress.  Long-term benefits include increased productivity and reduced healthcare costs. More benefits are being discovered through research every day. When we learn about them, we promise to share our newest tips and advice with you.

Green Wall Business

| November 19, 2012 | Categories: Good Earth Plant Company, Good Earth Plant Company Tips, Living Walls
We’ve seen a major shift in inquiries for green roofs projects to opportunities for living walls. Thankfully  we’ve been trialing and demonstrating living walls here at the office for the past four years. The lessons, tricks and idiosyncrasies we have learned are invaluable and have allowed us to not experiment at a client’s location. As such, I am not willing to install a new system that we have not sufficiently worked with to understand all of the possible challenges associated with that particular system.  I’m of the opinion that nearly anyone can install a beautiful green wall, only a select few of us can keep it looking that way for years.… Read More

Selling Plantscaping to Upper Management

| July 23, 2012 | Categories: Architecture and Design, Case Studies, Gardening, Good Earth Plant Company, Good Earth Plant Company Tips, Indoor Plants, Plantscaping, Sustainable Living
6 Keys to Getting the Green-light to Green-Up Your Office As the Facilities or Operations Manager, your job is a delicate balance of keeping the company running smoothly and managing what seems like tighter and tighter budgets. Upper management expects you to ‘do more for less’ year after year and at some point, a priority needs to be made on the company workspace aesthetics and sustainability. After all, a well-heeled reception area and conference room can project an image of a company that prospects want to do business with and employees want to work for. Interior and exterior plantscaping is not just the “living art” that beautifies a space, it can also create a work environment that improves air quality, reduces absenteeism and increases both productivity and employee morale.… Read More

4 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Plantscaper

| July 16, 2012 | Categories: Biophilic Design, Good Earth Plant Company Tips, Indoor Plants, Plantscaping, Sustainable Living
What you don’t know can really cost you the green! No matter where you stand on the great outsource-insource debate, it is abundantly clear that most businesses in San Diego, don’t want to add interior plant design and plant maintenance to their list of in-house services—much less add it to the job description of an employee who may turn your greenery into compost! Some things are just better left to the professionals—especially those with a green thumb! But how do you know which professionals will give you the best green for your green? Good Earth Plants services many clients in San Diego and southern California who have shared their stories of plants gone wild, or more accurately, splash and dash companies masquerading as plantscaping companies.… Read More