The Dirt: A rose by any other name is…David Beckham?

Some of our favorite news from the recent RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London: An English shrub rose debuted, named after soccer (or football, as the Brits say) star Sir David Beckham. The brainchild of Beckham’s daughter Harper and David Austin Roses, the bloom — white tinged with pale pink and possessing a heady scent — marks the legend’s 50th birthday. Who’s ready to grow it like Beckham?

On the topic of England, it can be your destination if you want to try out the WFF vs. WFH trend. That means work from farm: partaking of the farmer’s life fantasy while working remotely. If you head to Paradise Farm, a Restaries retreat in Suffolk, you’ll have alpacas and pygmy goats roaming nearby instead of chatty coworkers. There may not be a break-room coffeemaker or a row of vending machines but worry not: You can always pick up fresh snacks at a nearby farm stand.

Need something to read while you’re traveling? May we recommend the latest book by MIT environmental historian Kate Brown. Each chapter of Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City shares fascinating stories of urban agriculture — such as the over-supply of horse manure in Parisian streets that (as fertilizer) helped feed millions or the garden allotments that enabled working-class Londoners to make ends meet in hard times. It’s also a call to action: Of her own local gardening efforts, Brown writes that to really get to know her community, “all it took was to be out with a shovel in my hand.”

But no matter where your garden grows, you may have to contend with hungry critters. Florida gardener @_albafrinet_ on Instagram was tired of seeing her homegrown veggies get chomped. Her solution: to cover every eggplant, tomato, or bell pepper with one of those organza gift bags. Her reasoning: “I’ll be danged if I let critters call first dibs.” Did it work? Join the 400,000+ people who’ve taken a peek, and prepare to be impressed.

If your nails could use a little TLC after working in the yard, you can literally have a green thumb with a new polish collection called Deadly By Nature from Mooncat. The six shades (among them: Black Widow, Deadly Nightshade, and Death’s Trumpet) are named for things you might find in the garden but wish you hadn’t. Our pick is The Manchineel Tree (aka “The Tree of Death”), a chartreuse-y neon green.