First, there is almost no advantage to being rich with staff for this stuff. But I love the great twofold levelling it represents. Why is it so pleasing? You could be disappointed to discover your edgy idols’ clay feet are now ensconced in arch-supportive German slippers as they browse auction sites for rare Welsh blanket patterns, or contribute to fly fishing forums. Maybe it won’t be a thing when gen Z celebs reach middle age, since they already crochet up a storm and love their plants, but so far, we have always had a good swathe of enfants terribles becoming sensible grownups. It’s inevitable, I suppose: either you die, or you get really into slip-casting pots and making chutney. Former hard partier Rupert Everett prefers gardening to sex, apparently, and Damon Albarn monitors his local wader population.Įvery generation has them: the 60s rock gods turned trout farmers and detectorists, stamp collectors and model rail enthusiasts. Ball’s erstwhile carnage-wreaking companion Sara Cox is now Instagramming her sunflower seedlings. Recently, I have enjoyed Zoë Ball’s sequel to that famous wedding day Jack Daniel’s, cowboy hat and fag shot: her veg plot planning notes and colour-coded seed storage tubs. The conversion needs to feel authentic – they can’t just be cosplaying a normie – but when it does, there is nothing better.

One day it’s cocaine, Pete Doherty and getting a police escort for calling an easyJet pilot a “ basic bitch”, the next it’s looking over the Sarah Raven catalogue and calling a trip to the garden centre for peat-free potting compost and a poke around the hardy perennials a “treat”. OK, they are €1,523 (£1,300) walnut and “saddle-stitched” leather gardening tools, but I am delighted to discover that even Moss likes a nice secateur.Īh, the passage of time. She said as much on Desert Island Discs last year, but this list confirmed it, featuring a lovely watering can (dark green, copper trim), boots “to walk the dogs, do the gardening” and gardening tools. I pored over the list, clucking lustfully at Hermès yak blankets, ivory silk pyjamas and peacock cashmere socks, and my main takeaway is: Kate Moss gardens now. Moss’s tight-lipped discretion has loosened recently, because she has a wellness brand to promote, which is fun, because we are almost exactly the same age and there is something fascinating about celebrity twins. The latest person to showcase their exquisitely expensive taste is guest editor Kate Moss, who shared 32 things she can’t live without.

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