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  • Pile of fallen leaves is collected with a rake on the lawn in the park

    The 9 best garden tools to make light work of autumn jobs

  • Brown Hen stands on a chair.

    The pet I’ll never forget: Brown Hen, the eggless hero who loved us – and outsmarted all her predators

    As our flock of chickens dwindled, she truly came into her own, adopting us as her flock and miraculously avoiding death-by-pine-marten
  • Ringing the changes: a wood burner in the centre of the living, dining and kitchen area.

    To the rescue: transforming an old ambulance station in Sussex

    This tired municipal building in Rye has been transformed into a lovely home
  • Kelly Hoppen with blond curly hair, standing against a pale green background, wearing a black waistcoat with nothing underneath and red trousers

    Kelly Hoppen: ‘I’d rather have more sex, because I’ve got money and fame’

  • ‘The furnishings are in constant flux’: the living room, with its modular sofa.

    Changing rooms: an ever-evolving apartment in Denmark

  • John Lewis x Collagerie.

    Come together: 14 of the best homeware collabs for autumn

  • An illustration of a woman with a storage box under her arm facing a mountain of clutter, books, hairdriers, a lampshade, etc, etc

    The cult of storage: is tidying really the fast track to a happier, healthier life?

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Gardens

  • A Dobbies garden centre

    Garden centre chain Dobbies to shut 17 stores as part of restructuring plan

    Closures will affect 465 jobs and retailer will also try to reduce its rent bill at nine sites if creditors approve its strategy
  • Kowhai Sophora plant in red pot

    Houseplant of the week: dwarf kōwhai

  • Brightly coloured flowers growing from the grass

    Flower show: the best bulbs to plant this autumn for a blooming good spring

  • Saving seeds from your garden is more satisfying than buying them in packets. Here’s how to do it

  • I love gazing at my garden as summer melds into autumn. Then I start to plan

  • Houseplant of the week: weeping fig

  • Crystal Palace’s radical gardeners

  • And so farewell, it’s time to say goodbye to my gardening column

  • Pickle that can bring peace at Christmas

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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