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  • Chocolate pieces

    9 April 2020

    From bean to bar: How to make chocolate

    Hannah Button, Ellen McHale
  • Bluebells at Wakehrst

    8 April 2020

    Mindfulness in your home

  • Coronation Meadow at Wakehurst

    6 April 2020

    Keeping sight of this environmental ‘Super Year’

    Richard Deverell
  • Cacao pod growing in the Princess of Wales Conservatory

    6 April 2020

    Cacao: The fruit behind your chocolate bar

    Ellen McHale
  • Close-up of botanical artist painting a tree

    4 April 2020

    Inspiration for isolation

    Katie Avis-Riordan
  • Windowsill plants

    3 April 2020

    Best vegetables to grow on your windowsill

    Hélèna Dove, Ellen McHale
  • Blackbird eating berries on a tree branch

    1 April 2020

    How plants hitchhike on animal poo

    Katie Avis-Riordan
  • A terrarium close up

    30 March 2020

    Make your own terrarium

    Meryl Westlake
  • Tropical Nursery

    30 March 2020

    Watch: Behind the scenes at our Tropical Nursery

  • Three seeds with orange hair like tufts

    29 March 2020

    Deceiving dispersal: Lying for a living

    Pablo Gómez Barreiro
  • Coronation meadow Play

    28 March 2020

    Watch: What is a brush harvester?

    Katie Avis-Riordan
  • Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula

    27 March 2020

    Venus flytrap: The creepy carnivorous plant

    Grace Brewer
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