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Human Response to Window Views and Indoor Plants in the Workplace

Plant selection and landscape design needs to be considered with the view outward from windows just as much as with the aesthetic view around the outside of buildings.

Chang, CY, Chen, PK

HortScience, 40(5), Aug. 2005, pp. 1354-1359

In general, the study found that a window view resulted in more positive effect in an office workplace than indoor plants and that a window with a view of nature has more effect than one of a cityscape. However, a window with a view of nature plus indoor plants produced the most positive response.