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rosey cheeks

Words by Jessica Peace ROSE WATER (the easiest one) You’ll need a bunch of roses, a kitchen and some sterilised glass jars Nip off your petals and ...

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an extraordinary place

Words by Jessica Peace BRINGING THE WORLD TO FOREST HILL … and an EXTRAORDINARY world The Horniman Museum is too. It’s another story of one of tho...

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plant porn: wintersweet

Words by Jessica Peace This sexy bush brings the ruckus. NAMECHECK Its posh name is Chimonanthus fragrans and it literally means ‘winter’ (Chimo) -...

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keeping it wild in peckham

Words by Jessica Peace Fancy knowing a bit about wildlife gardening? You’d better get yourself down to Peckham - you heard. PECKHAM WILD STYLE Wha...

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get your chillies in (while it’s chilly)

Words by Jessica Peace Chillies take their sweet time so getting planting now! Grab yourself some seed compost so you don’t burn your chilli seeds;...

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moments in pot culture: the daff

Words by Jessica Peace Dalí’s, ‘Metamorphosis of Narcissus’ (1937) taught us all to get over ourselves. The Greek yarn sees young Narcissus becomin...

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back to the roots at the natural history museum

Words by Jessica Peace We put our blinkers on and trampled right past those dinosaurs and piles of bones, heading straight to the ‘Red Zone’ to gee...

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staying power

Words by Jessica Peace You might be grabbing an extra posie at the till whilst you’re waiting for your bulbs to spring up. Here’s how to give’em so...

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...life in the old dog yet

Words by Jessica Peace Well last week we poked our plants about to see whether they’d actually kicked the bucket or not. But if there’s still life ...

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moments in pot culture: the palm

Words by Jessica Peace You might know it from the mouth of Barry Manilow, ‘Goodfellas’ or ‘Raging Bull’, but you can’t think of the 1940’s New York...

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kickin’ the bucket?

Words by Jessica Peace Will a bit of a water do? Or is it in the green waste bin for your pot plant? Has your plant already kicked or can we save i...

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moments in pot culture: the snowdrop

Words by Jessica Peace E.A. Bowles (1865–1954) the horticulturist, artist, writer and Lord of the Manor at Myddelton House was nothin’ short of a G...

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fashioned from nature at the v&a

Words by Jessica Peace This has got to be one of our favourite exhibitions of the year - it’s got frocks, politics and is environmentally woke. It’...