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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. Words Sonya Patel Ellis and photography Andrew Montgomery
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 Montgomery
Recycled trainers as mini ponds
Christophe Guinet, aka Monsieur Plant, uses trainers to create mini ponds and aquariums
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