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April 16, 2017

New love: my fiddle leaf fig (ficus lyrata)

Fiddle leaf fig | Growing Spaces

As birthday presents go, this was a parcel that was hard to beat – a huge box, with a few tantalising leaves poking out of the box – inside was the most gorgeous fiddle leaf fig tree (ficus lystrata). It…

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November 6, 2016

Urban Jungle: Living and Styling with Plants book review

Urban Jungle Bloggers book review | Growing Spaces

Trust me when I tell you that Urban Jungle: Living and Styling with Plants by Igor Josif and Judith de Graaff (the founders of Urban Jungle Bloggers) is an absolute joy to read. Whether you’re well along the path to plant addition,…

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August 2, 2016

String shelving display

String shelving display | Growing Spaces

Still in France. Still doing daily battle with 3G. I am currently sat in the nearest McDonalds with a strong black coffee so I can get a quick bit of work done, so apologies for the brevity of this post!…

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May 17, 2016

Styling the Seasons: May 2016

May Styling the Seasons | Growing Spaces

The month of May has meant a lot more time spent outside. The weather has been kind to us, we had our impromptu weekend away in Dorset, plus we’ve been hard at work in the garden – an ambitious project…

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April 21, 2016

How to create a wall of plants

Wall of hanging plants | Growing Spaces

We recently decorated our hallway, stairway and landing – finally ridding the house of its last areas of beige and magnolia, and painting everything a fresh, bright white. Obviously this meant taking everything down off the walls, and I’ve taken…

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February 24, 2016

Jungle animals: Urban Jungle Bloggers

Wild animals and plants with Urban Jungle Bloggers | Growing Spaces

Did you hear that 2016 will see the publication of the first ever Urban Jungle Bloggers book? So exciting and very well-deserved! I know Igor and Judith are already busy beavering away, and I can’t wait to see what they…

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February 4, 2016

DIY painted plant pot ideas

After my post about ways to give terracotta plant pots an update, I decided it was time to get out the paintbrushes and have a go myself. A lot of of my houseplants needed replanting into larger pots, but I…

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January 24, 2016

Decorating with air plants

Decorating with air plants | Growing Spaces

I’ve been trying to decide where to hang my ceramic wall dot vase from Collett & Holder for so long, and then I realised that our en suite bathroom was well overdue a bit of love and attention, so I…

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January 21, 2016

Kitchen plants | Urban Jungle Bloggers

kitchen plants for Urban Jungle Bloggers | Growing Spaces

This month, Igor and Judith asked all the Urban Jungle Bloggers out there to show off the plants that live in our kitchens. My kitchen window sill is like my little plant nursery – it’s where my babies or poorly…

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May 24, 2015

My plant gang | Urban Jungle Bloggers

String shelves full of indoor plans | Growing Spaces

This month’s #urbanjunglebloggers challenge from Igor and Judith was about grouping plants together to celebrate their diversity – combining sizes, shapes, colours and textures. I decided that the String shelving system in my office was the perfect spot to show…

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