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Homes

  • zebra basket vine

    Houseplant of the week: zebra basket vine

  • Sugarloaf Mountain from the window of Isabela Capeto’s apartment.

    Carnival of colour: fashion designer Isabela Capeto’s Rio apartment

    This 1940s Brazilian home, filled with items reflecting the eclectic taste of its owner, is as breath-taking as the view
  • Granny’s carriage clock, two sepia paintings from a junk shop and weird reptiles feature on the fireplace of the author Valerie Grove

    ‘A set of clues to who they are’: artists and authors on their marvellous mantelpieces

    Fascinated by the objects on his mum’s fireplace and what they say about her, Orlando Gili embarked on a project to capture creatives’ collections
  • SUSTAINABLE THE PAPIERI, ZURICH - Andri Mengiardi and Martina Isler

    Switched on: a Swiss apartment with its own hydro plant

  • Tim Dowling illustration

    Tim Dowling: my sisters are home alone – in my complicated house where nothing works

  • Elegant yellow Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’ shares a window box with a ‘Thumble’s Variety’ oregano, purple spikes of Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’ and silvery Artemisia stelleriana

    Forget marigolds and busy lizzies: how to give your window box a twist

  • Home of Medina Grillo - bookcases in the living room

    From temporary wallpaper to injections of colour: giving a rented home a makeover

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Gardens

  • Woman gardening

    A gardening club is a collective way to grow food, flowers and friendship

    Getting dirty hands in the garden is a private act in some ways – but also an environmental gesture in the face of climate change
  • sowing French beans in homemade paper pots

    Slugs got your beans? Don’t despair – it’s not too late to sow again

  • The sun through the leaves of an orange tree

    On winter solstice the oranges on my tree reach their peak – but I always leave one fruit hanging, past its prime

    Andrew Herrick

  • Stanley Dunlop obituary

  • Country diary 1924: the never-ending war on ants

  • Long summer days in Denmark remind me of Devon

  • Azeem Rafiq talks racism, cricket, and leaving Britain; Philippa Perry offers advice on a painful crush; why Rory Stewart quit politics; and the big British bamboo crisis – podcast

  • It’s feeding time: why plants need more than sunlight and water to thrive

  • Houseplant of the week: crocodile fern

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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