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grab a bee nester and save the solitary bee
Words by Jessica Peace Solitary bees are kickin’ the bucket but our plants need them! To understand just how good these guys are at pollinating - a...
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Our online botanical publication.
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who’s busting my balls? (box caterpillar)
Words by Jessica Peace If your box balls look frazzled, eaten and webby, look a bit closer and you’ll find that stripy little b*stad the box tree c...
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spotted dick (nasty bits on your roses)
Words by Jessica Peace BLACK SPOT This is a bit more than a polka dot, not only will your rose drop it’s leafy kit, it will become weak and unable...
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your garden throwin’ shade?
Words by Jessica Peace So you’ve not got that ‘south facing’ gaff, who gives a sh*t? Here’s how to sex up your darker bits… OH YOU PRETTY THINGS B...
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foraging and folklore at modern barn farm
Words by Jessica Peace Since we last had a natter with Hannah Grows she’s been setting up ‘Modern Barn Farm’ in East Sussex with the Indie Farmer. ...
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get your tommies going
Words by Jessica Peace Mate, you haven’t lived until you’ve smashed your home grown tommie over your Bloody Mary on a hot summer Sunday - and tommi...
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moments in pot culture: the beech
Words by Jessica Peace Lovers have carved their names into beech bark since way back in the Roman day (not sure how we feel about this!). In Ovid’s...
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moments in pot culture: the london plane
Words by Jessica Peace It’s one of Mamma Nature’s biggest anti-pollution machines in Blighty, and although it’s giving us hay fever hell right now,...
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"feed me seymour" (which fertiliser to use)
Words by Jessica Peace It’s getting warmer, there’s pairs of shorts appearing on the streets - time to get fertilising. Here’s a little science les...
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sun worship: the sun at the science museum
Words by Jessica Peace The sun, the big yellow life giver. If you’re interested in the big yoke: space, the universe, time, mythology... OR you’re ...
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moments in pot culture: the jasmine
Words by Jessica Peace In 1930 when the loaded clientele of couturier Jean Patou stopped calling him as economic depression hit Europe and America,...
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furry fern babes
Words by Jessica Peace Is there anything cuter to a plant head than those tightly bound, furry spirals? Uhh! Snip off the rusty old fronds and have...
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moments in pot culture: the rosemary
Words by Jessica Peace In Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605), rosemary is the key ingredient stirred with some wine and salt for Quixote’s hea...
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