Weeding and digging are perfect ways to disconnect from a life spent in front of screens, says Hugo Bugg the 27-year-old who won a gold medal at the 2014 Chelsea Flower Show.
The Chelsea Flower Show is hardly teeming with teenagers – at 27, I was the youngest gold-medal winner there for two decades and had to contend with some flirty attention from middle-aged women pleased to see a younger gardener among the shrubs.
But while I’m surprised to hear that young people have sprouted such a love of gardening – with a survey of 25- to 35-year-olds revealing that it is more popular than the cinema – the news that twentysomethings are turning their fingers green makes a lot of sense.
The Telegraph: Why young people find gardening cooler than the movies
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