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On nature cures and taking the waters

When chilly outdoor swims began to chip away at her depression, Jessica J Lee was drawn to a closer study of the complex natural world around her.

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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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Notes upon arrival

In an effort to feel at home back in the country of her birth, poet Bhanu Kapil recognises the small revelations of nature in a chilly UK spring as a way to reconnect.

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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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  • A large renaissance water garden with angels in the clouds above. Etching.
  • A Chinese lady looking at herself in a mirror (right); outside, a water-garden (left). Gouache.
  • A Chinese lady seated leaning on a tea table; right, a water-garden with ducks. Gouache.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: children being sprayed with cold water in the roof garden. Photograph, 1921.
  • An ornate garden obelisk with water cascading down its sides. Etching by J. Goeree after S. Schynvoet, early 18th century.
  • The Physick Garden, Chelsea: viewed from the river, showing water gate, mooring posts and steps. Wood engraving by W. J. Palmer.
  • The Physick Garden, Chelsea: viewed from the river, showing water gate, mooring posts and steps. Wood engraving by W. J. Palmer.
  • A Chinese lady in a blue dress, seated, right, looks out of a window at a water-garden, left; trees in blossom in the foreground. Gouache.
  • Leipzig: medical historians posing in a garden with watering cans. Photograph, 1929.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis L. Lamiaceae Rosemary. Woody perennial. Distribution: Mediterranean. Quincy (1718) commended the flowers for epilepsy, apoplexy, palsies, uterine obstruction, jaundice, gout, and syringed into the ear with warm water for dislodging wax. It is licensed for use in Traditional Herbal Medicines in the UK (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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