Turning a new leaf

We’ve found our green fingers again. After many years of dusty cheese plants abandoned in the corner of our living rooms, we’re on a houseplant growth spurt. From careful selection to growing babies, sharing tips online to booking in plant sitters while on holiday, we’re doing things that, well… we never thought we would for our houseplants.

Beth Chapman, founder of Leaf Envy (), believes we’re looking for a way to balance our fast-paced and digital-led frenzy of urban life. ‘Millennials and Gen-Z are looking to counterbalance this and be closer to nature,’ she says. ‘Our love of plants goes far beyond aesthetics: in fact, this innate attraction to nature is ingrained in our DNA and has been built up over hundreds and thousands of years of living in agrarian environments. This concept is called biophilia, and biophilic design has become very relevant in architecture and interiors to connect this biological human instinct