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  • Elle Hunt taking advice from B’Leaf’s Claire Bright

    The houseplant murderer: can I become green fingered in eight easy steps?

  • Illustration of a woman sitting at a table surveying a messy and chaotic kitchen

    The squabbling, the vomiting, the freeloading and the noisy sex: my 10 worst house-share moments

    Across eight homes and 18 housemates, I have endured it all – from the guy who washed his clothes without detergent to the boyfriend who moved in by stealth
  • The living room's warming blend of salmon pink and bright yellow, with Alki armchairs and a Japanese chandelier from HK Living.

    Floating away: warm tones and vintage details lift the spirits in a grand Parisian apartment

    An interior decorator and furniture designer uses colour and knack for fleamarket finds to create an inviting sanctuary
  • A man holding a cheese plant

    ‘The leaves fall off – but I think that’s normal’: the houseplants you just can’t kill

  • ‘I even placed an outdoor bathtub and shower on the terrace, so I never lose the feeling of being outside’: Marcantonio.

    Take the roof off: outside meets inside in a radically artistic Italian home

  • Dale Berning Sawa with casserole dishes from M&S (grey), Aldi (pink) and Le Creuset (cream).

    Pot luck: can a £19.99 Aldi pan beat a £305 Le Creuset?

  • A clever use of lines in the bedroom, from the lights aligned with the bedding, to the curves of the headboard.

    Brushing up the past: a graceful French home has art at its heart

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Gardens

  • aerial view of various homes and trees

    Cut back your roses? Berkeley sets new rules for its most wildfire-prone areas

    Residents of California city’s high-risk areas will be required to remove plants within 5ft of homes under fire safety rules
  • A starling

    Garden birds need a hedge against decline

  • Woman shopping in a secondhand marketplace in London.

    Set alerts, use filters and buy less: everything I’ve learned about secondhand shopping

  • Poppy Okotcha: ‘Plants taught me about myself’

  • The best secateurs to save you time and effort when pruning your garden, tested

  • ‘Cheap plants are like cheap food, you get what you pay for’: meet the new generation of independent nursery owners

  • Conserving our seeds the homegrown way

  • From no-show couriers to food banks: my quest to rehome everything we test on the Filter

  • How to get your garden ready for summer: 13 things you can do right now, according to the experts

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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

  • Tube table lamp

    Light of my life: best new table lamps – in pictures

  • 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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