Watch the plant that has now turned into a 300ft monster
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A small plant that was planted in an office ten years ago has now turned into a 300ft monster.
The plant has filled the entire building and hangs over every desk.
The 54-year-old owner of the office, Des Brennan said he bought the ivy as a small plant to decorate the office of his company, Protective Solutions Ltd. in Stonehouse, Glos. which is a packaging company founded in 2006.
He put it in the corner of the office of his company but it has now turned into a 300ft monster after ten years.
The plant is still growing.
Des said: “It’s done really well. We put it in the corner of the office in the pot that it came in, and it just flourished.”
“I think it likes the fluorescent lights in here and the heat. In the summer, when the leaves all come out, it’s more like a canopy in here.”
He added: “It’s a very defiant plant. If you happen to catch a bit of branch in a door and break it off the plant, it seems to grow a few more shoots in its place.”
He also said that the plant is very low-maintenance and they just water it once every couple of days.
He says that the plant is quite popular and a lot of people know the office as the one with the big plant.
He said: “It’s a big talking point. A lot of people know our office as the one with the big plant.”
He has a team of eight workers in his office and he says some of the girls of the office talk to the plant.
“There’s a team of eight of us here. Some of the girls talk to the plant, but I don’t believe in all that stuff. We do get quite a few spiders hiding in the plant, but I don’t blame the plant for that.”
“We have a lot of fun at Christmas – we hang lights and baubles from it.”
He says that if the plant continues to grow like this, he will punch a hole in the roof to let it grow up on the mezzanine.
He said: “We’ve got an open-plan office, it’s about 50 foot long by about 25 foot wide. It goes around our office a couple of times and then crisscrosses across the ceiling too. It’s absolutely massive.”
”I think between the server heat, and the computers, and the nature of the people working here, and their goodwill, it’s absolutely thrived. It’s well over 300ft long – I think it calms people down. i think it’s nice to have something green, something living in the office, and I think it’s very therapeutic”, he added.
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