Adding a touch of green to your homes is your garden space. Often however, it takes a backseat when it comes to making improvements to your home. Gardens need not necessarily mean extensive spaces with long lawns.
Even a space in the balcony of your apartment can add that touch of freshness to your home. Have a few potted plants inside your house to add a distinct charm to your interiors. You can choose plants in such a way that they require little or no maintenance. Though flowering plants need more attention, they add a colourful look to the garden.
Another popular choice is to have bonsais — but make sure the garden has sufficient direct sunlight. An interesting twist is to have a kitchen garden where you can grow herbs and vegetables. Again choose those that grow easily and do not require much attention. Gardening is an art that needs skill and an aesthetic sense of creativity. Planning a garden of medicinal plants can add value due to their culinary, Plants are green because they have a substance called chlorophyll in them. Understanding why chlorophyll is green requires a little biology, chemistry and physics.
If we shine white light on chlorophyll, its molecules will absorb certain colors of light. The light that isn’t absorbed is reflected, which is what our eyes see.
A red apple appears red because the molecule of pigment in the apple’s skin absorbs blue light, not red. Thus, we see red. Chlorophyll molecules absorb blue light and some red light. The other colors are reflected resulting in the green color that we associate with plants.
Plants get their energy to grow through a process called photosynthesis. Large numbers of chlorophyll molecules acts as the antenna that actually harvest sunlight and start to convert it in to a useful form. Here’s where the absorbent properties of the chlorophyll molecule come into play.
It turns out that eons of evolutionary design have matched the absorbance of chlorophyll to the actual color of the sunlight that reaches the leaves. Sunlight consists of primarily blue and red light mixed together, which are exactly the colors that chlorophyll molecules like to absorb. Light is a form of energy, so the chlorophyll is able to harvest the sunlight with little waste.
Plants are important to the balance of nature. For animals and people, plants provide food, shelter, useful tools, and products
Even a space in the balcony of your apartment can add that touch of freshness to your home. Have a few potted plants inside your house to add a distinct charm to your interiors. You can choose plants in such a way that they require little or no maintenance. Though flowering plants need more attention, they add a colourful look to the garden.
Another popular choice is to have bonsais — but make sure the garden has sufficient direct sunlight. An interesting twist is to have a kitchen garden where you can grow herbs and vegetables. Again choose those that grow easily and do not require much attention. Gardening is an art that needs skill and an aesthetic sense of creativity. Planning a garden of medicinal plants can add value due to their culinary, Plants are green because they have a substance called chlorophyll in them. Understanding why chlorophyll is green requires a little biology, chemistry and physics.If we shine white light on chlorophyll, its molecules will absorb certain colors of light. The light that isn’t absorbed is reflected, which is what our eyes see.
A red apple appears red because the molecule of pigment in the apple’s skin absorbs blue light, not red. Thus, we see red. Chlorophyll molecules absorb blue light and some red light. The other colors are reflected resulting in the green color that we associate with plants.
Plants get their energy to grow through a process called photosynthesis. Large numbers of chlorophyll molecules acts as the antenna that actually harvest sunlight and start to convert it in to a useful form. Here’s where the absorbent properties of the chlorophyll molecule come into play.
It turns out that eons of evolutionary design have matched the absorbance of chlorophyll to the actual color of the sunlight that reaches the leaves. Sunlight consists of primarily blue and red light mixed together, which are exactly the colors that chlorophyll molecules like to absorb. Light is a form of energy, so the chlorophyll is able to harvest the sunlight with little waste.
Plants are important to the balance of nature. For animals and people, plants provide food, shelter, useful tools, and products
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