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The Luca letterbox flowers from Bloom & Wild

Lots of us are buying flowers fairly regularly because well..they look lovely and cheer us up. But they are an expense, so if you've got room, start growing flowers in your garden. And to avoid the annoyance of them wilting in a few days, we have some maintenance tips

Insideout Garden Art

Not familiar with outdoor art and don't think pictures belong in the garden? well, Yorkshire's Insideout Garden Art begs to differ. So if you look out on an empty wall or fence, turn it into a gallery space!

make urban areas in the UK pesticide free

If Paris can do it...so can we. The Pesticide Collaboration is urging us to join the campaign the end the use of pesticides in urban areas

Eco weddings deserve eco gifts

You've got weddings or civil partnerships coming up... The happy couples have eschewed a list at John Lewis, Harrods or Selfridges, saying airily that 'anything recyclable, bio-degradable or generally CO2-lite will be simply divine!' Rejoice, there's much that fits the bill.

 Travel Things Museum London Design Festival 2024

September is a great time to visit the capital because it's design festival month. The city offers a riveting panoply of design events covering craft, furniture, interior and multi disciplinary design. See lovely things, hear interesting people give talks, get inspiration.

Houses need to stand out from the crowd when they're being sold

If you're selling your house you need to make it stand out from the crowd...but in the right ways

Forget pilates, yoga's the exercise of the moment. And it's all the better when performed on an environmentally friendly mat made from natural rubber and recycled plastic

lamp with base from used umbrella mechanism

The designers at anti love to reuse and recycle - and they've homed in on discarded umbrellas as the base material for their first collection of lamps. Here they explain their ethos

Miscanthus bale house in west Wales under construction

A house in West Wales has been built using carbon negative Miscanthus bales in a project aiming to evaluate the benefits and viability of using the plant in construction

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