a crop of tobacco will be grown in the empty shell of st margaret’s house on london road in edinburgh.  with its history of harvesting by slave labour in the u.s., and grown as a cash crop in 3rd world countries, exploitation and a bad smell sticks to this lush looking plant. yet, grown against a backdrop of an inner city eighty’s office block, it will provide a rich visual texture and an opportunity for urban dwellers to engage in the therapeutic activity of growing things. issues about displacement and forced migration in our globalised, consumer-driven world are further indicated in this work, as well as the ever increasing shift from rural to urban environments, and the disconnection that goes with this process. sprouting out of the top four floors of the massive empty building, that was the scottish pensions headquarters, the work will seen from the street by passers by, a very different way of ‘greening’ the city.