Doniczkowa utopia? Rośliny pokojowe w Warszawskiej Spółdzielni Mieszkaniowej

Abstract

The paper discusses plant breeding in the flats of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative during the interwar period. The author analyses the articles offering advice on potted plants, raising the issue of greenery in the estates and the importance of nature in the lives of residents of urban estates, and attempts to reconstruct various meanings attributed to potted plants, practices associated with them and the ways in which they became part of a larger modernization and educational project.