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dalston eastern curve garden

Words by Jessica Peace THE RIGHT TO GREEN SPACE Eight years ago this Hackney sanctuary was just a train track and a pile of rubble; Marie Murray an...

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moments in pot culture: the strawberry

Words by Jessica Peace In Shakespeare’s play ‘Othello’ (1603 - ‘they’ think), the handkerchief that gets Desdemona into all that trouble is covere...

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moments in pot culture: the poppy

Words by Jessica Peace In 1915 Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae wrote the poem, ‘In Flanders Fields’ where he gestures to poppies that grow over sold...

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think winter veg now

Words by Jessica Peace Is it depressing to read the word ‘winter’? Soz. But it’s NEVER sad to chat veg… Basically, if you succeeded with your tat...

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seth banks, language and big plants

Words by Jessica Peace WHO IS GILBERT?Gilbert is not just your average Cheese plant. My parents brought him into their home 39 years ago - before I...

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moments in pot culture: the cactus

Words by Jessica Peace In 1937 plant hero Frida Kahlo paints the still life ‘Cactus Fruits’, critics argue the deep red fruits reference her own su...

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getting the snip

Words by Jessica Peace If you’ve not experienced the intense satisfaction of snipping stems (correctly), my, my are you in for a treat?! Here’s a ...

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the barbican conservatory

Words by Jessica Peace A few of our G&T mates keep making noise about this place, Vevolution hang out there and Cléo Ferin Mercury sits for hou...

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moments in pot culture: the acanthus

Words by Jessica Peace Right back to the Romans and the Greeks, the floppy, unfurling leaf of the acanthus has been chiselled into pillars using p...

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a bit of art in hyde park

Words by Jessica Peace We LOVE our plants but we like a bit of arty too, so we took a stroll down Hyde Park to have a gander at this year’s Serpen...

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moments in pot culture: the buttercup

Words by Jessica Peace ‘...the sky is summer-blue, /And meadows full of buttercups, /Are spread abroad for you’ whispered Cicely Mary Barker’s blon...

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summer cuttings: grow mint in your drink

Words by Jessica Peace One for you, one for me... Pour a glass to make your plant baby and pour one for yourself because making cuttings root in wa...

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we can be (plant) heroes: frida kahlo

Words by Jessica Peace ‘I paint flowers so they will not die’, Frida Kahlo - well that’s one way of not killin’em. Kahlo, you wore’em, painted’em,...