Plants: now cool enough to wear their shades indoors…

Professor Green helped open this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Kelly Brook is This Morning’s new gardening correspondent, while the Royal Horticultural Society’s student membership has swelled by 1,300%. Proof that a pastime once reserved for your grandpa is now as hip as fermenting vinegars in jam jars. “Getting up close and personal with soil is also proven to have a significant effect on mental health,” says Jo Arnell, a garden designer beloved by the fashion set. (Turns out there’s a bacteria found in it called mycobacterium vaccae, which stimulates production of the happy hormone serotonin.)

Not got a patch of your own? Try a multi-sensory window box instead. For a fragrant, edible display that lasts all year, Arnell suggests mixing frothy bronze fennel with purple-tinged Thai basil and variegated pineapple mint, finished with the tiny trailing mauve flowers of lemon thyme. Just maybe don’t put them all in the same salad…