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People love plants. They love green spaces and forests. If you are honest with yourself, you can tell that when you are outside in a beautiful space of plants, you can feel the change. That’s why we cultivate plants at AVK. We grow landscape and native plants, and curate cultivated plants to help make the outdoor spaces even more various, floriferous, fragrant, and edible. It contributes to the ineffable sense that something is right. It contributes to the reduction of stress. The post-modern person is stressed. We are just not very aware of it. It is well documented that green spaces contribute to general health and well-being. It reduces stress as mentioned above, reduces anxiety (we seem to have an epidemic of that stuff now), reduces fatigue and generally gives you a happier disposition and clarity of vision. And it’s not even a pill or a dietary supplement. There are few, if any negative effects. The other aspects of the general good of the outdoors, is that one doesn’t often just take it sitting down. Hiking, running and playing come naturally in big open spaces. This, of course can help keep you physically fit and thereby confers the benefits of fitness. That can be as diverse as a good sense of self, to having an ability to reduce disease. Activity can help regulate mood and encourages the proper levels of chemicals in our body that regulate our wakefulness and sleep cycles. If you haven’t thought about this, it wasn’t that long ago that every person, worked outside every day. You could almost say our hardware was made to run on that kind of activity. However, in this age we’re in, many people work indoors and are physically inactive. Like me writing this. A beautiful landscape is a joy to look at. To create something like that is a great feeling and is truly an accomplishment. Every plant has its own best feature and place that it wants to be in the world. It’s sun exposure and temperature zone must be considered. The ultimate size, texture and colour of the plants must be thought of. When you stand and look at one of these creations, it can be a real moment to breathe in and enjoy. And while you are breathing in, the plants are breathing out the oxygen we need to live. What a marvel!  AVK Nursery started, like many enterprises, by someone who really enjoyed the plants and wanted to work with them every day. This grew into a large business where many people work to create plants that hold the potential to become the next great landscape work. It has the potential to change millions of spaces. Green spaces create plant oasis and AVK Nursery enjoys being part of that and working with the many wonderful people in the industry.