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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

callicarpa has plentiful purple berries which birds love to eat!

If your perennials are on their last legs, refresh your garden or outside space with berry laden shrubs that will give colour over the autumn and well into winter

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

 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

Roderick Thackray and Zee West, founders of Algreen

London-based start-up Algreen is developing bio-based plastics to replace fossil fuel-derived plastics and it's thrilled to be nominated for a prestigious Earthshot Prize 2024

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