For those millennial couples who didn’t flee to the parents’ roomy manors in the Home Counties just before lockdown, the four walls of your (just about) one-bed flat might by now feel like they’re shrinking with every passing day. The solution: feng-shui your joint with some new plants, which will breathe new life into your prison.
Garden centres are back in business, baby — though for those who didn’t even realise they existed, try one of these online emporiums that will ship your money plant straight to your door.
Make Patch your first stop: its eclectic collection of plants have Christian names to signify their important role in your household (Chaz and Rick look pretty friendly). You can sort by filters including size, type, room and light availability to limit the likelihood that yours withers and dies (like your soul). You can also buy pots, watering cans and shears (patchplants.com).
Cult New Cross bijou boutique London Terrariums is shipping its extraordinary terrariums in bell jars, conical flasks and globes. It’s doing gardening equipment, too (londonterrariums.com).
Bloombox Club has an eclectic collection of greenery, from languid hanging plants to smart potted numbers (bloomboxclub.com).
