However, he did have form in the horticultural gifting department. When Virginia Woolf met him in 1939, he famously (and possibly rudely) gave her a narcissus. When I dug into his history – something I’d avoided doing for so long – more plant-based activity emerged. Despite growing threats, Sigmund stayed in Vienna until 1938, at which point he and his wife were taken to London. Had he stayed longer, he may have ended up dying in the camps like all four of his younger sisters. It’s documented that among the possessions he brought with him on that final, life-saving journey were his famous couch and a zimmerlinde plant from his Vienna apartment, from which cuttings were taken and shared. It was later immortalised in my uncle Lucian Freud’s painting Still Life with Zimmerlinde, which sold for nearly a million pounds in 2018.