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  • Emergency equipment to face crisis and disasters. Water, food, first aid kit, tools and another items needed to survive. High resolution 42Mp studio digital capture taken with SONY A7rII and Zeiss Batis 40mm F2.0 CF lens

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  • Hilary Belle Walker, Mergozzo lake, Italy © Barbetta and Agostinetti

    Retro paradiso: a lakeside home in Italy is now a nostalgic haven

    A 1960s house has been brought back to its former glory, with a contemporary twist
  • Elle Hunt taking advice from B’Leaf’s Claire Bright

    The houseplant murderer: can I become green fingered in eight easy steps?

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    Floating away: warm tones and vintage details lift the spirits in a grand Parisian apartment

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    ‘The leaves fall off – but I think that’s normal’: the houseplants you just can’t kill

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  • Girl cuts or trims the bush (rose) with a pair of scissors in the garden

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  • Crawick Multiverse in Dumfries and Galloway - an aerial view of rolling hills, with large mounds in the foreground, with stone circles on top of them

    Beam me up, Scotland: a journey into outer space in Dumfries and Galloway

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  • How to garden in spring (and the best tools for the job)

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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
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    Australia’s best new sustainable homes of 2024 – in pictures

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    Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s seaside home – in pictures

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  • Wisteria-clad Grasmere House

    Homes for sale in England with great gardens for spring – in pictures

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    Colourful glass furniture from vases to lampshades – in pictures

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