Denise Godfrey joined her family’s San Diego County business as a young adult after she realized how much she enjoys being around plants.
In the age of COVID, plants brighten indoor spaces
Story by Kevin Hecteman ∞ Photos by Rob Andrew
Denise Godfrey manufactures air purifiers. Not the kind that need to be plugged in—the kind that need to be watered. Godfrey helps her parents run Olive Hill Greenhouses in Fallbrook, fromwhich a wide and many- hued variety of plants are sent forth to help brighten homes, home offices, commercial offices and many other indoor spaces with the intention of bringing pleasure to the eye and to the lungs. Tony and Sue Godfrey founded Olive Hill in 1973; Denise, their daughter, went to work for them in 2000. “I really enjoyed being around plants,” she said. “Having met quite a few customers with my dad, I realized it was a good business and there were some really nice people.” Anthuriums and bromeliads—f lowering plants with tropical roots—are Olive Hill’s two main varieties, grown in a staggering array of shapes and colors. They can do more than just take carbon dioxide out of the air, Godfrey said. “By bringing houseplants into your home, it’s providing that nice setting where you just really feel good and have that psychological benefit of being around living things in your home or in your office when you spend so much time inside,” she said.
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