Garden Life

Broadly, are two kinds of places to buy plants: chic, immaculately curated stores stocked with rows and rows of perfectly aligned pots; and rambling nurseries where gardeners wander round in khaki shorts and floppy hats, dragging dribbling hoses behind them.

The vast Garden Life is a rare sort of hybrid, where it’s possible to buy a designer table alongside all the usual plants. It’s no wonder this is a favoured destination for landscape architects – and indeed, Garden Life has its own impressive portfolio of completed projects, from seaside gardens to inner-city office courtyards. Head here if your house looks lifted from the pages of a magazine, or you just wish it would and have the cash to make it happen.