The place where I worked in has comfortable air conditioning all day long where the air temperature is much cooler (22 to 25 deg C) than our ambient room and outdoor temperatures. For most of us, we are simply not willing to turn on our home air conditioning all day to achieve that – imagine the hefty power bills we need to pay at the end of each month?
Hence I took the opportunity to grow some cooler growing plants there. This is not surprising as I have noticed quite a number of people have realised this and started to buy such plants to grow them in their similarly air conditioned offices.
Because I cannot grow plants inside my biological laboratory where I worked, I have them growing on the sunny window ledge that was located near the pantry. Below is a picture of my flowering pelargoniums. I also had fuchsias, miniature roses and African violets too. All these plants do very well in the air conditioned environment where they flower non-stop!
But, such a colourful sight cannot be witnessed anymore on the same window ledge for more than a year already. As work has caught up with me in the lab daily, I have decided to give gardening in the office a miss!
