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Advent calendar: how to make your own

Make your own floral advent calendar

Gardens Illustrated has joined together with The Herbarium Project to show you how to make an Advent calendar for Christmas.Show more

Pressing flowers

Pressing flowers: meet the company preserving blooms

JamJar Flowers is Melissa Richardson and Amy Ireland's pressed flower company which creates pressed flowers that are not only beautiful works of art, but a wonderful way of preserving a favourite plant, a bouquet or even an entire garden. Words Natasha Goodfellow photographs Andrew MontgomeryShow more

Christophe Guinet's Sneakerium

Recycled trainers as mini ponds

Christophe Guinet, aka Monsieur Plant, uses trainers to create mini ponds and aquariumsShow more

An orange birch bolete

Magical mushroom artworks

The intricate, embroidered mushroom, fungi and lichen created by art embroiderer Amanda Cobbett are uncannily realistic and utterly bewitching. Words Natasha Goodfellow, photographs Andrew Montgomery Show more