![]() ![]() To indoor plants increases productivity and fosters creativity. Since then, other studies have shown that proximity View of trees had faster recovery times and needed significantly less pain In the 1970s, researchers in Pennsylvania found that hospital patients with a ![]() ![]() Of succulent popularity is the same feedback-loop of supply and demand thatįuels any trend, but there might be deeper, scientific reasons at work as well. There, powered by the internet, succu-mania spread across the country. Succulents spent 19 weeks as the bestselling gardening book on Amazon. Published a book in 2007 called Designing Garden of Cactus and succulents is commonplace.” Movement in architecture and decoration appear to thrive, the indoor winter “The Modernist seized on theĬactus because of its strange shape,” says a 1931 issue of House & Garden magazine. More romantic plants favored by the Victorians. Were the only plants to really complement their sensibilities-a break from the Inspired: Early twentieth-century architects felt that cacti and succulents This wasn’t the first time in history designers were so They were common, they weren’t what a sophisticated gardener wanted,” said gardenīaldwin noticed landscape designers using succulents to mimic the stark lines Succulents among the gardening public was that they were a poor man’s plant, that Succulents had been popular as easy houseplants, “the general perception of For a long time California’s high-end landscape designers favoredĮnglish-style cottage gardens, a green status symbol amidst a desert. ![]() Resemble one another in terms of behavior.īegan in California. This can lead to localizedĬonformity, where everyone in a school or a suburb or a country starts to Person sure looks content with their succulent!). To buy?) you look at what others have done, and how it has worked out for them (that Observational learning, which can lead to an “information cascade.” Instead ofĪctively analyzing the pros and cons of a decision (to buy a succulent, or not One psychological explanation for this is the human tendency towards You see many people with succulents (or ferns, or tulips) you want succulents, Usually imitate each other,” wrote the philosopher Eric Hoffer in 1954. “When people are free to do as they please, they Trends-even ones involving plants-are driven by the bandwagon But it is not a coincidence that both ourĬontemporary capitalist system and our tendency towards fads are inherited from Level that ferns once attained, though you can buy watercolor prints ofĮcheverias and laser-cut plastic necklaces in the shape of prickly pears (I (So far, I don’t think anyone other than nursery owners is investingĪ Victorian Christmas card decorated with ferns. Now enjoys a healthy afterlife as a dire warning about speculation in economics The bubble burst and some investors were left bankrupt or in debt. People invested their life’s savings in a tulip market where a single bulb was Special vases were designed to best display the flowers, and The Dutch fell so rapturously in love with tulip bulbs the flowers were treatedĪs stock futures. More powerful than they are in the current succu-mania. Society’s most powerful consumptive urges, and those urges have often been even Plants have periodically been a conduit for Succulents? Do they secrete a highly addictive narcotic oil on their leaves?Īre we currently under the influence of a manipulative alien mind ray, or a Tiny succulents in teacups and a sugar bowl. ![]()
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