The Love Of Animals On The Flowers

If you want your pet to be able to appreciate the smell but not the flavor for your kitty, you can always place in the house preparations based on essential oils. Perhaps you would never have imagined it, but it is not only human beings who are fascinated by flowers and above all by their perfume. Even animals love to smell the fragrances released by daisies, roses and the like.

These Romantic Shots Collected On The Web Demonstrate This.

If more and more of us are adopting the reflex of eating in season and less meat, or limiting the use of water and electricity, there are areas where we do not immediately think of the impact ecological of our gestures, even benevolent. Giving flowers, for example, is one that needs to be thought about.

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For example, have you ever thought about the ecological impact of the pretty bouquet you are about to buy? Because it is true, we do not always imagine that before ending up in the sublime composition that is before you, the flowers were sometimes cultivated in the greenhouse, treated with pesticides by workers often exploited, sprinkled with liters of and transported by air. In other words, bouquets of flowers are not always a gift for the planet.

How To Choose Flowers?

However, you should not deprive yourself of all the pleasures! There are therefore a few simple gestures to please and have fun by offering flowers, without this being synonymous with a disaster for the environment.

Seasonal Flowers Or Imported Flowers

As with fruits and vegetables, most flowers are found everywhere, all year round. Out of season, horticulturalists use greenhouses that are heated and permanently lit, which greatly increases the carbon footprint of their production.

The Solution For Choosing The Right Flowers

The vast majority of the flowers you buy come from countries in the South: this is the case for 90% of roses, orchids and tulips. Most of the cut flowers sold come from the Netherlands, but also from Central America, South America, Africa especially Kenya and recently from Asia with India which exports more and more.

Today in Europe, it is estimated that:

• 80% of the roses come from Kenya, Ecuador and Zimbabwe
• 91% of orchids come from Thailand
• 71% of gladioli come from Colombia

Since the flowers are fragile and perishable, they must be sent quickly, so by air: the ecological balance is increased.

Flowers Imported By Air

The energy balance linked to air transport is 570 to 1,580 g per ton of flower and per kilometer. In comparison, the results are a little less bad for the road: the flowers transported by refrigerated truck use 800 g of CO 2 per kilometer. Roughly speaking, a bouquet of 12 roses from the Netherlands produces 8 kg of CO 2, the equivalent of 2 liters of fuel, which represents 45 km traveled with an average car.

Fragrance

Dogs have a highly developed sense of smell so they can prove particularly sensitive to pleasant smells for us. Not being able to predict which ones are most unpleasant for our animals, it would be better to avoid the more intense ones and avoid them near their rest area. In a study conducted on kennel dogs it has been shown that the diffusion of essential oils based on chamomile and lavender has calming properties, unlike those based on rosemary or mint.