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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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Our online botanical publication.
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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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eww it’s white and sticky: tell powdery mildew to f’off
Words by Jessica Peace It’s gross, white and sticking all over your plants, here’s how to tell powdery mildew it to F’off… WHAT IS IT? It’s a fungu...
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how to garden when you’ve got no f’in space: no 1. bonsai
Words by Jessica Peace You can’t afford a garden, or a balcony and you’ve got no space for a window box - we feel your pain!!! Do not despair, figh...
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shinrin-yoku (take a splash in a green bath)
Words by Jessica Peace Like baths? Like parks, plants and stuff that grows green? You need to get into Shinrin-yoku mate. THE DEETS While we were d...
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moments in pot culture:the cherry blossom
Words by Jessica Peace ‘Hanami’ is Japan’s festival celebrating the ephemeral beauty of the cherry blossom (sakura), and reminding themselves of ‘m...
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plant hero: vivienne westwood
Words by Jessica Peace She made punk, rad outfits and now is saving the planet with her protesting, spreading the word and a bit of gardening. Rai...
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