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Homes

  • Zen zone: the outdoor dining space awash with gentle greenery.

    Inner peace: from clutter to calm at a house in southeast London

  • A composite image of a grid of pictures all on a mint green background: a vape, a cucumber, an electric Lime bike, a pint of Guinness, Austin Butler, a Stanley cup, a Bic lighter, a brown bra and a bottle of La Vieille Ferme wine

    The year in stuff – from chicken wine to cucumbers and mini mullets

    Did you make and trade a friendship bracelet? Invest in a Stanley cup? What we wore, used and shared in 2024
  • First impression: design ideas to transform your hallway

    Making an entrance: the experts share design ideas for your hallway

    It is often a neglected space but the hallway is the backbone of any property and can set the mood for the whole home
  • Open house: the iron-framed windows and balcony that inspired the design of the apartment.

    Finding beauty in Brutalism: a flat in Milan provides a haven for creativity

  • Ficus alii (Ficus maclellandii)

    Houseplant of the Week: banana leaf fig

  • Vanessa Branson and her home for OM

    In the frame: hotels, tattoos and family with Vanessa Branson

  • A woman sits by a swimming pool.

    The £35m starter home: why the super-rich are queueing up for a phenomenally pricey pied-à-terre

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Gardens

  • Fig leaf gourd (cucurbita ficifolia) growing in vegetable garden at RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate.

    Fig and almond trees thriving in UK thanks to fewer frosts, RHS says

    Society to retire plants no longer suited to UK’s changing climate after 14% fewer days of ground frost recorded
  • flower box with petunias and gardening tools

    Bedding plants to make way for more eco-friendly options in 2025, predicts RHS

  • Host of ABC's Gardening Australia, Costa Georgiadis

    Costa Georgiadis: ‘People ask, how much to shave your beard? I’ve got a price: $34m’

  • Chelsea flower show garden to champion Britain’s endangered rainforests

  • Today is the winter solstice – a moment to pause and reflect on your gardening year

  • Houseplant of the week: potato plant

  • Final call for festive shopping! Tick off the last of your Christmas gifts with the Filter

  • Why an apple tree is a perfect Christmas present for the gardener in your life

  • I’m dreaming of a green Christmas: how to reduce your festive tree’s carbon footprint

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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