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Guide To Decorating Your Living Room

Decorating a living room is like giving it a quick makeover or a facelift.  Remove the old, bring in the new and give your...

‘Houseplants make me happy’: Jamie Song’s urban jungle

There’s a lush who’s who of houseplants in the vintage retailer’s Insta-friendly home Of all the dozens of plants in Jamie Song’s home, it is...

Get set, sow – it’s time to start growing vegetables

It’s not too early to start chillies, tomatoes, leeks and more Ready, steady, grow. It is time to start sowing. There’s no rush just...

Cabin fever: the garden shed that became a stylish guesthouse

Plans for a simple timber building grew into this Swedish-inspired Hackney hideaway The exterior of writer and editor Alex Bagner’s new-build timber and glass...

Timeless moss gardens are springing back

An ethical solution if you want to grow moss indoors Iam fascinated by cultural differences in gardening. In Japan there are more than a...

Gardening tips: mulch your border flowers

Then plant Corsican hellebore for evergreen foliage, and volunteer to help map an orchard Plant this I’m a sucker for a green flower in winter,...

The joy of growing extinct plants

Some plants can no longer survive in the wild, but hand-pollinated seeds allow them to live on in your home patch There is something...

In the cold, there’s hungry birds, thick ice and frogs to liberate

The pond ice was an inch thick, so Allan Jenkins broke through with a heavy hoe and launched Operation Free the Frogs Perhaps it...

Green house: inside a plant-filled London home

A forest of house plants plus rooflights and glass sliding doors cleverly merge the outside with the inside in this Georgian townhouse The greening...

Plant jerusalem artichokes now for a plentiful supply

Our gardening expert on the divisive tubers Jerusalem artichokes tend to divide people. To some they are the devil’s work, whereas others can’t get...

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