Office Planting Trends 2025

As we look forward to the new year, we continue to move away from clinical office designs and towards thoughtfully curated, organic spaces. Workspaces that feature sustainable green design and creatively bring nature into the workspace create environments that are human-centred and forward-thinking.

In this journal, we reveal 2025’s office plant trends and what the future looks like in the world of workspace greenery.

Biophilic Design

This continuing trend emphasises the vital connection between plants and people, focusing on our relationship with nature by bringing green life into our interior spaces – both through incorporating biophilia and organic design elements. It can also include maximising natural light (light-filled atriums being a recent popular choice) and featuring natural colours and shapes, such as curved walkways and seating with soft edges.

Our connection to the natural environment is innate and indisputable. Studies show that biophilia can significantly enhance employee wellbeing as well as increasing creativity and productivity. Plants also improve air quality, reducing both stress and sickness in the workplace. With all of these positive benefits, biophilic design remains a growing inspiration of 2025.

Sensory Experience

Offices will maximise employee experience and overall happiness by featuring plants that vary in colour, texture, and shape to create environments that feel inviting and increase attentiveness. This doesn’t just mean utilising maximalism in a showcase of bright natural hues and striking leaf patterns, but also a more organic design featuring minimalism and calm and thoughtful planting. Being directly inspired by nature – an innately grounding and sensory experience through sight, scent and touch – is key to creating these immersive, tactile spaces that will encourage openness and creativity.

Workplace Wellness

As the focus on mental and physical health increases, workplace wellbeing is ever more integral to office management and employee satisfaction.

Whether it’s creating private spaces for rest and rejuvenation, quiet places to focus, or fun collaborative spaces to connect with plants and people, design considerations for mental health will be increasingly crucial. Creating a workspace that fosters happiness, reduces stress, and supports overall well-being can significantly enhance the daily experience for employees.

Plants are a great way to increase mindfulness, concentration and overall positivity in the workplace. Our time spent in nature is not just for rest and recuperation, but is an essential integration to the office environment, nurturing both ourselves and our collective attitude to work.

Preserved Planting

Naturally preserved plants and moss will be more in demand than ever in 2025 as offices seek the benefits of biophilia without the stress of caring for plants. Handcrafted moss walls and artistic green frames will pioneer the future of workplace design, as new and unique green options that take up little space.

Our own preserved greenery is 100% natural and a fuss-free alternative to live planting, needing no watering and little maintenance. A great and flexible way to incorporate greenery into the office without disrupting the busy work environment.

Tiny Terrariums

In the coming year terrariums will be making a resurgence. These enclosed, self-sustaining biomes are great for adding planting to small spaces and require little maintenance – just a little sunlight! The small plant habitats are a creative way to add calm to a space. The sealed vessel creates an ecosystem that maintains itself, staying perfectly humid and needing no watering, as well as being space-efficient.

Open terrariums (not technically terrariums but we digress) are also a great alternative – succulents, cacti and airplants being popular choices. Whether your choice is open or closed terrariums, they both introduce a fun and unique way to enjoy plants.

Tip: Did you know that we run terrarium workshops, along with an assortment of other green-fingered creative classes? Join us in crafting your very own green biome, led by our plant experts!

Eco-Friendly Planting

With environmental conscientiousness increasing, sustainable practices such as repurposing plants and containers, using eco-friendly soil, and opting for local ethically sourced plants are of rising importance (check out our suppliers in Holland). Notably, the sustainable and reusable substrate vulkaponic is a great option to reduce water usage and maximise plant health, meaning that replacements are less likely.

The appreciation for native plants will also take more precedence as the cultivation of local species increases. This not only preserves biodiversity and reconnects people with their local environment, but also means that plants thrive more easily in their natural climate, making them easier to care for.

Seasonal Plant Displays

In the coming year, people will rethink the efficiency and usage of cut flowers, trading disposable flowers for seasonal perennial plant displays. Changing arrangements according to the season reflects a growing and evolving company.  In our Bloom plant  service at Plant Designs, we combine the pros of plants with cut flowers by using gorgeous flowering plants that we swap out on a rotational basis - creating much less waste whilst still being able to admire th

Bespoke Design

Design and Build will gain momentum as companies search for more ways to meticulously curate their own workspace vision and set themselves apart from the crowd. This concept features complete integration of design, architecture and practical function - directly building from the ground up rather than modifying preexisting spaces. This means that designs can be implemented and executed to exact specifics, ensuring a truly unique vision and seamless flow between functionality and creativity.

Incorporating planters with communal seating and and handcrafted preserved greenery are some of the ways to go the extra mile and do more than just a desk plant. Carefully considered bespoke design tailored specifically to the unique space and brand vision can really make a business and its workspace come to life - something we're passionate about helping facilitate at Plant Designs!

Branding

Considered corporate branding will retain prevalence in 2025 as a well-attested and reliable way to establish your business. Creating a strong brand with planting greatly enhances company identity, creating an office environment that fully reflects your brand in both look and feel. In our previous journal, we highlight ways that you can strengthen your branding with creative interior landscaping – from integrated planters to naturally preserved moss walls tailored to your space and needs. Making your brand stand out from the rest and championing innovation, especially in an increasingly saturated market, is key to your business surviving and thriving.

Colour and Visual Aesthetics

Intentional visual design continues to thrive as offices take colour and aesthetics into consideration. Cool tones such as blue and green tend to have a calming effect, whilst richer darker shades of purples and blues promote feelings of strength, creativity and sensitivity. On the contrary, brighter shades and bold patterns tend to stimulate and energise. Using careful placement of plants which consider colour and varied visual stimuli creates an ambience that fosters calm, innovation and motivation.

Tech-Enabled Plant Care

Advancing technology will make keeping our plants happy and healthy easier. In 2025 we can expect further integration of tech and plant care, including moisture sensors, smart lighting, and temperature monitoring systems. Increasingly complex AI learning will form the backbone for more automated and seamless plant maintenance.

Our top things to note from 2024 were sustainable watering systems using rainfall becoming more of an industry standard, as well as an impressive plant car wash from our EILO trip. Growing accessibility and normalisation of these new and developing technologies will ensure that indoor plants truly live to their fullest potential.

In conclusion, 2025 will be a year of bold and bespoke biophilic design that creates efficient and enjoyable office environments, significantly improving the daily working lives of employees. Maximising mental and physical benefits through thoughtful design, technology, and increasing sustainability efforts will make for better workplaces that represent the ever evolving future of office working.

Join us in the coming year on our mission to make London a greener place to work and thrive, where we'll be implementing these trends in our own green designs - we'll see you there!