Meristem’s tips on urban greening, office planting, parklets, living walls, plants and biophilia
Humans need plants to survive, whether it be for a food source, reoxygenating air for us to breathe, or helping our mental health and well being, with its calming properties (where biophilic design came from)People have always intuitively sensed that contact with plants and nature is a calming restorative tonic for the body and soul. Not only do plants provide a sense of calm but as you all know, they are a significant part of what we eat with just 15 crop plants providing 90 percent of the world’s food energy intake.
There is a rising trend for on-street Parklets popping up across the world, in the US there are over 3,000 of them, with Canada and Australia not far behind. In the UK their growth has been slow until now, however in the past year over 40 on-street Parklets have been installed in London alone with 100’s more in the pipeline.
