Off-mint.

This perpetual diary is ideal for keeping track of gardening tasks and what bloomed when. The book features full-colour reproductions of paintings from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library, along with black and white line drawings to colour and create your own artworks.

Spanning half the globe, from Britain and Europe, eastward to the coast of California, the map reproduced in shades of cream and grey on these textured cards dates from the era when Australia was ‘New Holland’ and India was ‘Hindoostan’. The map also lines the envelopes and covers the rigid, lidded box. Twelve cards with ungummed envelopes.

In her book The Grammar of Spice, Caz Hildebrand matches spices to patterns drawn from Owen Jones’s sourcebook, The Grammar of Ornament (1856). These cards feature the patterns for 16 different spices. The cards and white envelopes are presented in a blue and ochre card box.