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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jane Perrone

Putting down roots: meet our new gardening columnists

two women, one with veg, one with basket of flowers
Claire Ratinon (left) and Alice Vincent in Bonnington Square Garden. Photograph: Carlotta Cardana/The Guardian

Claire Ratinon and Alice Vincent sit shoulder to shoulder, chatting about recipes for cauliflower, the joys of reversible jackets, and why the heady scent of a house full of paperwhite narcissi is essential for getting through winter.

Despite the chill of the late winter day, the atmosphere of this photoshoot – held in south London’s Bonnington Square Garden – is warm and relaxed. A little way across the Thames from Westminster, this wartime bomb site was turned into a lush community space in the 1990s with the help of designer Dan Pearson. Saturday magazine’s two new gardening columnists punctuate collected moments for the camera with biscuits and gusts of laughter.

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