In honour of the Chelsea Royal Flower Show taking place this week, we though we’d dig out a little list of the most colourful gardens in the world to give you some inspiration for your own home, inside and out!

Up first we have this beautiful candy pink moss that grows round the base of Mount Fuji in Japan and creates a wonderful contrast with the blue skies above.

Mixing earthy neutrals with vibrant shades, this mind-blowing shot of rice fields in Yuanyang County, China shows of the wonder of nature in all its glory.

Everybody knows about Holland’s famous tulip fields, home to over 7 million flowers and a whole host of vibrant shades.

Japan again and this time purple and white Wisteria flowers covering this inspirational tunnel in the Kawachi Fuji Gardens.

Finally, for the more adventurous of you, these wild flowers found only in Namaqualand, Namibia turn an arid desert into a blossoming canvas of colour each and every spring.

Ever sat down and thought; ‘I really fancy a good read’, only to realise all your books are packed away in a box in the attic because you had nowhere to put them.

So you pick up the remote control and flick over to a repeat of the 2009 Great British Bake Off quarter final – the one where Beryl makes a Victoria sponge.

Well, thanks to ‘Nobody & Company’ – maker of beautiful designer furniture, this need no longer be a problem since they’ve come up with the fabulous ‘Bibliochaise’.

It’s a comfortable, throne-like chair with a built-in bookcase surround. The funky and functional design can house up to 300 books – the equivalent of 5 metres of regular bookcase!

So not only do you get a chair that looks great and is incredibly comfy, it also saves on storage space and gives you access to hundreds of other worlds, right at your finger tips. It even has wheels to move it around!

Now, where did we leave our copy of the latest Danielle Steele…?

Buying a new sofa is great but nothing beats the feeling of an old, worn in couch with the faint outline of your own posterior embedded into the seat.

This idea of couch potato was taken on by designer Charlotte Kingsnorth in 2009 for London Design Week and has been recently updated and expanded into vintage chairs.

The result is the strangely fluid and fluctuating “At One” couch that marries sofa and sitter into one hybrid creation.

An interesting concept but a little creepy. Maybe this one is better left in the exhibition hall than in the home.