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    Touching distance: an apartment in a Brussels brutalist block

  • Devil's Tongue Barrel (Ferocactus latispinus)

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  • Studio Rey - BC15 Brockley home.

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  • Brown Hen stands on a chair.

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  • Ringing the changes: a wood burner in the centre of the living, dining and kitchen area.

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  • woman planting a heuchera in a bed

    Plant a new flowerbed now and everything will look rosy by spring

    Plan your layout, choose hardy perennials and stick to a colour scheme for a cohesive look that will come into its own next year
  • A Dobbies garden centre

    Garden centre chain Dobbies to shut 17 stores as part of restructuring plan

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    Houseplant of the week: dwarf kōwhai

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  • Houseplant of the week: weeping fig

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Pictures & video

  • Visitors holding umbrellas or in raincoats with hoods up stand at the other side of a rope that separates them from a garden at the show

    A hardy bunch: visitors at wet Chelsea flower show – in pictures

    Torrential rain did not stop garden lovers – or Guardian photographer Sarah Lee – from enjoying the 2024 Chelsea flower show on Wednesday
  • Fish River House in Mount Olive, NSW

    Australia’s best new sustainable homes of 2024 – in pictures

  • Derek Jarman’s home at Dungeness

    Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s seaside home – in pictures

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  • Wisteria-clad Grasmere House

    Homes for sale in England with great gardens for spring – in pictures

  • Eclectic Candle Holders

    Colourful glass furniture from vases to lampshades – in pictures

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