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Shelley Kramer started Creative Environments in 1974, Creating Tropical Paradises with Interior Design Elements specializing in interior plants, trees, floral arrangements and artwork in homes, offices, restaurants, and clothing showrooms in the LA Clothing Mart. Lawyers, Celebrities, entertainment industry.
I create these tropical paradises and then maintain them with weekly, bi monthly or monthly services including fertilizing, cutting and dusting leaves.
I also create floral arrangements for parties, weddings, Graduations, Bas/Bar Mitzvahs, office parties..
In 1978 I was featured on the 6pm NBC News, 2 nights Tuesday and Thursday, (3 mintes each) on the David Horowitz Consumer guidelines show as a Professional Plant Interiorscaper with before and after renditions of how plants can brighten up rooms, see video https://youtu.be/UGLLO0N57B4
In 2003 I was then on TV for the the UK on BBC, Sky 1,as flower and plant Lady to the Stars. Titled "English Chars to the Stars” Show Service People to the movie stars. Video coming soon.
I started gardening early in my life.
Samples of Floral arrangements
Mom and Me at my wedding My first Bridal bouquet, with orchids, stephanotis, queen annes lace and cedar.
I am a founding member of the California Interior Plantscape Association
Sigmund Freud: "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions or conflicts."
"Plants give fresher air to the environment and something for people to keep their eyes, body and mind busy."
Sigmund Freud
The Plantscape Industry has made many compelling plant benefit claims:
| Plants decrease employee stress and enhance productivity by 12% |
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| Plants contribute oxygen in "Green Building" programs |
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| Plants in the workplace help attract and retain today's selective employee |
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| The aesthetic value of plantscaping is the primary ROI for plant investments |
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| Plantscaping helps create energy efficiency without Sick Building Syndrome |
| Researchers found that one potted plant per 100 square feet of floor space can help | ||
| clean the air in the average home or office. In more sophisticated approaches, new building designs can incorporate plant-filtering systems built into atriums, lobbies and walkways. |
| "Low levels of chemicals, such as carbon monoxide and formaldehyde, can be removed | ||
| from indoor environments by plant leaves alone, while higher concentrations of numerous toxic chemicals can be removed by filtering indoor air through the plant roots surrounded by activated carbon. |
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The carbon absorbs large quantities of toxic chemicals and retains them until the plant | |
| roots and associated microorganisms degrade and assimilate these chemicals." |
| According to the EPA, "Employees who work in buildings of man made materials inhale | ||
| over 300 contaminants every day." |
