About Us
My Plant Exchange is an on-line resource for gardeners to exchange their precious plants with fellow gardeners across the U.S. This can be a beneficial opportunity for gardeners to exchange their excess plants to other gardeners who desire these plants and have other kinds of plants for exchange. This can also be an opportunity for gardeners to sell their excess plants to others who can purchase desired plants at a discount or non-retail basis. Healthy, quality plants can be costly at garden centers and nurseries and this prohibit an individual in purchasing the plants. This will provide our plants and flowers a new opportunity to reward other gardeners rather than being destroyed; and it expands our collective opportunity for our environment by going "green".Gardening can be a rewarding and satisfying activity for the young, old, novice and experienced gardener. As gardeners, we take great pride and satisfaction in planting and this can be rewarding to the gardener in many ways. The benefits we receive for our time and resources can be measured year round through the beauty of flowers, seasonal foliage and plant growth. It can also be an expensive activity as we cherish and nurture our plants with quality soil, fertilizer, insecticide, and compost with the hope of receiving benefits from the health and growth of our plants and we want to maximize the potential of our plants.
As gardeners we take great pride in nurturing our plants and flowers and are delighted when we have success with flowers and the multiplication of our plants. It can also be challenging to manage the success of our plants and flowers as they expand and produce more plants. Often these new plants end up being destroyed or end up in our compost because of limited space or the desire to maintain the size. It is disheartening to destroy quality plants that could be shared and provide a benefit to fellow gardeners.
SOME BENEFITS OF PLANTS
Environment
- Trees, shrubs, turf and groundcover trap and filter dust and other pollutants out of rain water. Plants benefit from the nutrients in this particulate matter and prevent it from becoming a source of water pollution.
- Planting landscape buffers can reduce the flow of sediments and pollutants into nearby bodies of water. As surface water runoff moves through the vegetation buffer, sediments and pollutants are filtered out.
- Plants improve air quality.
- An average tree absorbs 26 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year and releases enough oxygen each day to supply a family of four.
- Trees absorb the carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming, as well as other gases that contribute to urban pollution.
- In urban microclimates plants are useful in moderating the temperature effects of solar and infrared radiation, thus increasing comfort levels.
- Properly selected and placement of plantings absorb sound waves, and can significantly reduce unwanted noise pollution.
- You can burn as many calories in 45 minutes of gardening, as you do in 30 minutes of aerobics.
- Gardening has a calming effect for the gardener and provides beauty to our individual neighborhood.
- Workers with a view of natural elements, such as trees and flowers, experienced less job pressure, were more satisfied with their jobs and reported fewer ailments and headaches than those who either had no outside view or could only see built elements from their windows.
- Playtime in outdoor green spaces can have a positive impact on children with attention deficit disorder.