Bottled plants from the brand Slow Pharmacy

Enjoy the Benefits of Nature with Bottled Plants from the Slow Pharmacy Brand

Enjoying the beauty and benefits of plants without worrying about their care is what the Korean brand Slow Pharmacy offers.

Indoor plants have many virtues, including reducing stress and improving concentration, but they are not always easy to maintain. To address this sometimes challenging aspect, the brand came up with the idea of putting various plant varieties in bottles. Thanks to this ingenious system, it is easy to add a touch of nature to your living or working space, creating a true haven of peace.

The Slow Pharmacy Brand

“Plants make you happy,” this slogan perfectly sums up the philosophy of Lee Gu-rum and Jung Woo-sung, the couple behind Slow Pharmacy. Whether for their beauty or medicinal properties, plants have fascinated humans forever. The brand’s founders are also convinced of the calming power of plants and want to enable as many people as possible to enjoy their benefits.

Lee Gu-rum shares that she grew up spending a lot of time in nature with her family, especially since her mother ran a flower shop. Yet as an adult, her work as a graphic designer kept her so busy that she spent all her time behind a screen, far from nature. Fortunately, she had several indoor plants nearby that helped compensate for this lack of nature. It was through plants that she found the calm and serenity she no longer had time to seek outdoors.

This awareness of the calming power of plants motivated them to found Slow Pharmacy. Now working constantly with plants, Lee Gu-rum and Jung Woo-sung want to share their knowledge and allow people to access the benefits of plants as well.

Their plant creation shop in Seoul, located in the heart of the inspiring and lively Seongsu-dong district, known as “Seoul’s Brooklyn,” is where Lee Gu-rum and Jung Woo-sung help customers reconnect with nature. More like a greenhouse than a shop, it offers a wide variety of plant species. Every customer receives personalized advice to find the plant that suits them and learn how to care for it… much like picking up medicine at a pharmacy.

This studio is also where they work on various conceptual projects around plants, such as the “Arche” project, which imagines moving all nature into an ark to save it from earth contamination. The brand also creates many plant-based decorations for TV series sets, events, and international brand stores.

Knowing plants inside out, Lee Gu-rum and Jung Woo-sung are well aware that caring for plants requires effort and that not everyone has a green thumb or the desire to get involved so much. To allow more people to benefit from plants’ advantages, they had the original and brilliant idea to put plants in bottles.

Bottling Nature

While getting plants to decorate your interior isn’t very complicated, maintaining them can be difficult and sometimes very demanding.

Each plant is different and requires specific needs: some need lots of light, others a certain temperature, not to mention watering… Even with the best intentions, caring for a plant can be a delicate task that discourages many people. To avoid giving up on having plants at home, Slow Pharmacy came up with the idea of bottling plants.

Slow Pharmacy’s bottled plants are not artificial but real plants. Each plant is carefully selected in Seoul, dried, then delicately hand-inserted into a bottle containing a special oil that promotes growth and preservation.

The bottles are transparent, with a very clean design, and contain only a few inscriptions. The liquid is also very clear, allowing you to perfectly admire each plant in detail. For example, looking at the leaf of the tabaria fern, you can admire its perfect symmetry. As for the fruits of the capsella bursa-pastoris, they are so translucent that you can see the seeds inside. Each plant is fascinating, and it’s quite amazing to be able to admire species you don’t usually see so clearly.

Since these are real plants, each bottled plant of the same species has a different size and shape. Among the available plants, the brand has carefully selected species varied in shape and color. Rose lovers might choose peacock grass or gypsophila elegans, those wanting to add a touch of green to their interior might go for the tabaria fern or adiantum tenerum, and those seeking originality will turn to the translucent fruits of capsella bursa-pastoris… No two plants are alike, and it’s impossible not to fall in love with one of them.

Bottled plants come in two different sizes: a compact 7.5 x 3 cm format with 30 ml content, and a taller 21.5 x 4.5 cm format with 200 ml content. These two sizes complement each other perfectly, and you can arrange both compact and tall bottles on a shelf according to your taste.

A Soothing Herbarium and a Beautiful Decorative Object

With their simple and original design, reminiscent of glass bottles used in scientific experiments, Slow Pharmacy’s bottled plants make excellent decorative objects. Just place one of these bottles on any piece of furniture to instantly add a touch of elegance. When several are placed on a shelf, it feels like stepping into one of those 18th-century cabinets of curiosities. These cabinets gathered rare objects, often from around the world, including stunning herbariums showcasing unique plant species. Slow Pharmacy’s bottled plants are a modern version of these herbariums, and when you see a bottle on a shelf, you just want to pick it up and observe it from every angle.

Beyond their obvious aesthetic appeal, being able to look at plants is also a great way to recharge. Having a plant near your desk and looking at it helps concentration and allows for a genuine moment of reflection. Just spending a few moments with a plant makes you realize how wonderful and simple nature is, which has a calming effect. By placing these bottled plants at home or work, you create a true little haven of peace, perfect for recharging. Moreover, as the day progresses, the light changes and reflects differently on the plants, giving the impression of seeing them from a new angle.

Slow Pharmacy’s bottled plants are not meant to replace indoor plants; on the contrary, they complement them perfectly. They offer several advantages, such as being able to go into darker rooms, like a bedroom, where indoor plants struggle, making them an excellent addition for plant lovers. Bottled plants can also be enjoyed year-round, summer and winter, and reduce the environmental impact of regularly buying plants. They are also the ideal solution for those who love plants but don’t have a green thumb, as well as a perfect substitute for the traditional bouquet of flowers given as a thank-you gift for an invitation. As you can see, Slow Pharmacy’s bottled plants are the perfect solution for anyone wanting to add a touch of nature to their environment without having to care for indoor plants.

Not only will these plants beautifully decorate your interior, but they will also help reduce your stress and offer a refreshing break. The creators of Slow Pharmacy hope that through plants, the world will aspire to a calmer way of life.