Gen Y is embracing gardening, with growing plants and herbs indoors becoming a popular pastime for urban dwellers. Whether to boost wellbeing, bring a sense of calm to urban spaces or simply for its ease of maintenance, gardening is brushing off the soil of its previously stuffy image.

With Gen Yers squeezing into ever smaller spaces in cities, it may seem like an unlikely time for a gardening boom. But there’s a whole generation of well-heeled and house-proud urbanites looking to make the most of their outdoor areas, and London-based Patch is helping their gardens grow.

Parsley Health in NYC is has taken it upon itself to revamp the stuffy doctor's office, designing it with more holistic, natural biophilic elements in mind. Parsley is tapping a trend that sees people reconnect with nature – a trend that is postively impacting upon people's productivity.

The Pantone Color Institute announced ‘Greenery’ as its colour of the year for 2017. It’s a selection that reflects the fact that, after millennia spent living in the outdoors, people now spend roughly 90% of their time indoors. This lifestyle has been associated with negative effects on health and wellbeing, and with two-thirds of the world’s population set to live in cities by 2050, people are looking for ways to restore their connection with nature. But instead of venturing into the wild, they’re bringing the outdoors inside.