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Homes

  • Manuela PinkMartini

    Turin retreat: a home full of intimate spaces

  • A woman holding a young girl and standing in a kitchen with yellow toxic stickers on fruit in the bowl, bottles of cleaning products and saucepans hanging from the ceiling

    They’re in pans, fruit, dust – and even tap water. But can I eradicate toxic forever chemicals from my home?

    Invisible toxins that leach into the body are almost unavoidable. Could I get rid of PFAS from my kitchen, bathroom, wardrobe and more?
  • Jenny Brandt Grönberg on the stairs in her home, a wall of pictures behind her.

    Colour fast: bright paints to refresh a family home

    Whenever this creative couple feel like a change at home, they reach for the paint tin…
  • Houseplant MAY 18 Potted Peperomia Obtusifolia Variegata, Variegated Baby Rubber Plant or Radiator plant houseplant. Isolated

    Houseplant of the week: baby rubber plant

  • landscape Century plant Boophone disticha

    Houseplant of the week: century plant

  • The view from the bedroom to a ‘junglette’ balcony.

    ‘It was a one-way journey’: the couple whose flat changed with their life

  • Crassula 'Buddha's Temple' in terracotta pot

    Houseplant of the week: Crassula ‘Buddha’s Temple’

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Gardens

  • Sweet Peas May 26th - Plot Image

    A family gathering to grow – and laugh

    An annual birthday get together revolves around the best things in life
  • HRS Chelsea Flower Show, for News, London, 17/05/2024. Sophia Evans for The Observer Muscular Dystrophy Uk's Forest Bathing Garden, by Ula Maria, show garden

    At the Chelsea flower show, foliage is in. Which bodes well for small gardens

  • Lost garden Llanforda Oswestry, Shropshire

    Country diary: A walled garden that lived, died and lives again

  • Small steps towards sustainable gardens

  • Romans in togas, shepherds in saunas and the Bridgerton garden in bloom … my wild day at Chelsea flower show

  • Garden with terracotta 3D-print bricks wins Chelsea flower show green medal

  • ‘Embrace the bog’: Chelsea flower show expert champions flood-proof garden

  • Eats shoots and leaves: the problems with pests

  • UK’s garden centres hope sunshine and Chelsea flower show will help them rebound from the rain

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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
  • 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

  • The Garden by Siân Davey

    Green shoots: the garden that kept growing – in pictures

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