Aries: Arri’s cactus

Tough, spiky and impossible to kill, which matters, because Arri forgets to water anything. He’s charged into it three times. The cactus is fine. Arri is less fine.

Taurus: Taur’s tomato plant

A plant you can eat? Taur has never loved a plant more. He’s grown 400 tomatoes this year and eaten 398. The other two are being saved for a special occasion. Tonight.

Gemini: Gem & Eye’s spider plant

It keeps growing little baby plants that dangle off the sides, so one spider plant soon becomes a crowd. Gem & Eye named every single baby, and they chat to all of them.

Cancer: Canny’s mother of thousands

A plant that grows tiny new plantlets all along its leaves, ready to start families of their own. Canny pots every one of them up and gives them away with a homemade card.

Leo: Leo’s sunflower

Tall, golden and always turning to face the sun, just like Leo always turns to face the camera. Leo’s sunflower is the tallest in the street. He measures it every morning, then measures himself next to it.

Virgo: Virgo’s bonsai tree

A tiny tree that needs patient, careful snipping to keep it perfect. Virgo trims one leaf a week, with special scissors, after a lot of thought. The bonsai is flawless. It’s also 1 centimetre tall.

Libra: Libby’s flamingo flower

A real plant, honestly. It’s pink, it’s elegant and it’s literally named after her. Libby has forty of them, arranged in perfectly balanced pairs.

Scorpio: Score’s Venus flytrap

Mysterious, snappy and with jaws that close when you least expect it. Score and her Venus flytrap have a lot in common. Mainly, nobody pokes either of them twice.

Sagittarius: Sagg’s dandelion

Blow on it and the seeds float off on the wind to somewhere new, which is basically Sagg’s whole life. Sagg’s dandelion seeds have now been spotted on three continents.

Capricorn: Cap’s oak tree

Slow-growing, strong and built to last hundreds of years. Cap planted it as a long-term investment and has a 300-year growth plan pinned to the shed.

Aquarius: Aqua’s air plant

It doesn’t need soil. It just lives in the air, doing its own thing, which is very Aquarius and very Aqua. She keeps hers in a glass bubble she designed herself, with a tiny weather system inside.

Pisces: Pike’s water lily

Floating peacefully on the pond, flowering beautifully and not worrying about a thing. Pike spends hours lying underneath it, watching the light come through the leaves.

Which Astrominal are you? Whatever your sign, every plant needs light, water and a bit of love. Except Arri’s cactus. That just needs Arri to look where he’s going.