Property News · September 10, 2017

How to grow a ‘house jungle’: why millennials are looking for something to nurture


Boxed in by shrinking housing and wages, young people are going potty for pot plants, with big leafy varieties like the fiddle leaf fig proving particularly popularAnnie Dornan-Smith has never counted the plants in her one-bedroom flat in Watford, but guesses there are about 30. “Some people I know have more like 300, but they do fill pretty much every window sill I have,” she says.The 22-year-old graphic designer does not belong to a demographic traditionally associated with pot plants. But she is at the forefront of a trend that is growing from catwalks and Pinterest pages on to the shelves and floors of millennial homes. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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