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28 September 2025

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Jess Elliott Dennison

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28 September 2025

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A few years ago I listened to this podcast and later bought Tin Can Magic, Jess’s first cookbook, then her second, then her third. I followed her on Instagram and always found the dispatches from her cafe and later studio in Edinburgh inspiring because they struck me as so personal

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30 August 2019

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Late August

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30 August 2019

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Late August, and the seasonal barometer prevaricates daily between high summer and early-onset autumn. It has been a month of workshops at Aesme, with three wonderful groups of florists visiting from Seoul, each for a three-day intensive class on garden-inspired floral design

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16 July 2019

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A London heatwave

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16 July 2019

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It is currently 37 degrees in London, stifling and still, pollen drifting slowly in mid air. Landing back at Heathrow last night, it was barely cooler than Italy, the same humid blanket of heat and haze spreading across Western Europe.

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5 July 2019

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A June masterclass

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5 July 2019

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June flew by. We are at our most productive now, in these summer months, moving from one project to the next but poring our hearts and minds into each one, always searching out the most beautiful plants, the perfect shade of this to go with that, how to bring the freshest…

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10 June 2017

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St John Bread + Wine

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10 June 2017

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And really this is the wedding that sticks in my mind when I ask myself why we do it. We do it for this, these flowers, these people. For me, the photographs here are testament to the endurance of love and friendship. I love that our work is a part of that.