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A graveyard of plants for the people I love

Searching for her own ceremony to acknowledge the passing of her grandmother, Jennifer Neal turned to plants. The ritual she created was personal and loving, and celebrated life as well as acknowledging loss.

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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions

Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.

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Foraging for a taste of the past

Follow tips from a professional forager to recreate delicious 18th-century recipes from plants growing wild in parks and on urban wasteland.

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  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.
  • Buvuma, Uganda: a view of land with shrubs in the foreground. Photograph, 1902.
  • Steep grassy banks at the water's edge with shrubs and rocks at their base. Watercolour.
  • An ornate garden obelisk decorated with trees and shrubs in vases. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • A complete herbal ... / by James Newton, containing the prints and the English names of several thousand trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, exotics, etc. Many of which are not to be found in the herbals of either Gerard, Johnson or Parkinson.
  • A flowering shrub, possibly Dipelta. Watercolour.
  • A flowering shrub: woody stem with white flowers. Watercolour.
  • A flowering shrub: woody stem with white flowers. Watercolour.
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