Trend Watch – Potty About Plants
LET YOUR GARDEN GROW POCKET PLANTS You don’t even need a garden to satisfy greenfingered fantasies as everything comes in a packet these days. Grow your own organic herbs from basil to lemongrass in a Pocket Garden. Just cut open the packet, add seeds to water and watch them grow. They taste [...]
LET YOUR GARDEN GROW
POCKET PLANTS You don’t even need a garden to satisfy greenfingered fantasies as everything comes in a packet these days. Grow your own organic herbs from basil to lemongrass in a Pocket Garden. Just cut open the packet, add seeds to water and watch them grow. They taste good too. £4.95; www. thepocketgarden.com SMALL WONDERS If transforming your teeny plot of land into a vegetable oasis seems a tall order, take a leaf out of the Simple Steps series from the Royal Horticultural Society. These books offer advice on everything from overhauling your front garden to easy pruning techniques. RHS: Simple Steps series (Dorling Kindersley, £6.99)
WHEN 1980s POP STAR Kim Wilde hung up her microphone to tend her garden, a renaissance began. In the same way Nigella Lawson made cooking sexy and Cath Kidston brightened up housework with her vintage print accessories, Wilde made gardening cool and fashionable. Now plant and seed sales are worth a staggering £76.8m in Britain. This is thanks in large part to dedicated followers of fashion and not just the green-fingered sorts. To tap into the styleconscious gardening generation, new accessories are springing up to make tending the shrubs as cool as mixing cocktails.
DIG IN Talking to your plants might help them grow but it’s decent tools that will keep them in shape. These stylish kits will provide you with the perfect equipment. You’ll soon have the neighbours leaning over the fence in envy. Pretty Useful Tools: kits, £19.95; secateurs, £14.95; www.bloomsburystore.com
BOOTYLICIOUS Cast off your high heels and put your best foot forward with the coolest wellies around. These dazzling ones aren’t just going to be appearing at the hippest music festivals this summer but in all the best urban garden squares, too. Whateley Wellington Boots, £39.95; www.whateleydesign. com
