London
In the newspapers and weekend colour supplements everything has gone green - adverts, features, news. Not green in the political sense, but verdant.
Summer has arrived. Adverts for the Dunlopillo mattress are set in a fern-floored copse, Kolher bathrooms get a green makeover in a primeval forest, while even tins of Ronseal eco-floor varnish are stacked among moss-covered pines.
Fashion shoots are all outdoors, in flowering meadows, blooming gardens or under pergolas ripe with trailing purple wisteria.
Even if the torrential rain drenched outdoor prospects for the Whitsun bank holiday, the Evening Standard declared the onset of summer in the capital - confirmed last week at Chelsea, the Royal Horticultural Society's flower show.
Established in 1862 as the RHS Great Spring Show in nearby Kensington, it moved 50 years later to the Royal Hospital. For five days its lawns - 17,000 square metres of which are relaid each year - play host to 600 exhibitors from Zimbabwe to Australia to Sri Lanka. About 157,000 visitors quaff 49,000 glasses of Pimms and 5,000 bottles of champagne.