[ Leave it out ]

Dressing your alfresco table with lush leaves is a favourite styling trick in the tropics. Sacrificing your fruit salad plant may be a step too far, so Mydrap’s place mats and napkins are the next best thing. Rather like kitchen towels, they come on a roll or pad of sheets and can be torn off for easy outdoor style.

Mydrap Monstera Leaf cotton napkin, left, £12 for a roll of six; and Tropical Monstera Leaf paper place mat, £24 for 12 (pipii.co.uk)