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Figures | vii | |
Plates | viii | |
Acknowledgements | xiv | |
Introduction | xv | |
Part I | Background and Built Examples | 1 |
1 | Historical background to exotic planting | 3 |
2 | Evolution of an architectural context for indoor planting | 6 |
3 | Twentieth-century greening of internal spaces | 14 |
Conservatories and winter gardens | 14 | |
Conservatories | 16 | |
Winter gardens | 20 | |
Buildings for active leisure pursuits | 23 | |
Leisure pools | 23 | |
The Sanctuary, Covent Garden | 28 | |
Arcades and shopping centres | 32 | |
Atria | 34 | |
The hotel atrium | 34 | |
Sheraton Skyline Hotel | 36 | |
The office atrium | 40 | |
Coutts, The Strand | 50 | |
Post burolandschaft | 63 | |
Public buildings | 65 | |
Newlands School | 65 | |
Barbican Arts Centre | 67 | |
4 | Benefits and rationale for interior planting | 80 |
Part II | Practical Recommendations | 87 |
5 | Environmental requirements | 89 |
Lighting provision | 89 | |
Varying requirements and responses | 89 | |
Assessing available natural light | 91 | |
Supplementing daylight | 92 | |
Importance of acclimatization and shading | 97 | |
Air quality | 99 | |
Relative humidity | 99 | |
Supplementary moisture | 100 | |
Pollutants | 104 | |
Contribution of planting to improved air quality | 107 | |
Preferred temperatures | 110 | |
6 | Physical requirements | 115 |
Growing media | 115 | |
Composts and loamless media | 116 | |
Soil-less culture and inert media | 120 | |
Effective support of planting | 126 | |
Permanently integrated planters | 126 | |
Free-standing or hanging planters | 139 | |
Sealed environments | 143 | |
7 | Maintenance requirements | 148 |
Plant healthcare | 148 | |
Routine maintenance tasks | 149 | |
Identifying causes of defects or failures | 150 | |
Treatment for insect or fungal attack | 153 | |
Water and nutrient supply | 156 | |
Varying demands | 156 | |
Automatic watering systems | 161 | |
Semi-automatic watering systems | 165 | |
Nutrient provision | 169 | |
8 | Guidance on plant specification and selection | 172 |
Specification | 172 | |
Selection | 176 | |
Part III | Index of plants | 183 |
Bibliography | 373 | |
Index | 375 |
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