On a bright weekend morning in London’s Shoreditch House, Botanique founder Alyson Mowat, is showing a group of aspiring indoor gardeners how to nestle the roots of a baby fern into a tightly packed ball of soil, moss and leather cord. It is a messy business for inept green fingers, but Mowat is all smiles and encouraging words.
She calls these balls of moss, Kokedama, inspired by Japanese bondage or 'Kinbaku', popularized by the erotic photography of Nobuyoshi Araki. These moss…
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