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  • Affectionate couple kissing each other while sitting on the floor at home

    Living apart: is this the secret to a happy, lusty sex life with your partner?

    One in 10 long-term couples keep separate homes – and they have much more sex than those who cohabit. But there are some unexpected downsides
  • Cozy interior with burning candle and dry flower decor om small table in the living room. Home comfort, coziness, aromatherapy.

    Six interior styling tips to make your home feel warmer

  • Dunstan Low outside his six bedroom manor house in Melling, Lancashire.

    ‘I didn’t sleep for 45 days’: the people who raffle off their homes

  • Paper house with a solar panels on the roof.

    Our NSW council banned street-visible solar panels. What can I do?

  • illustration of a bird on a speaker in a garden

    Readers reply: should back gardens be sacrosanct, or are loud phones and speakers OK?

Gardens

  • Butterfly feeding on cream melaleuca flowers

    Gardening in a climate crisis: how to be a green thumb when old rules no longer apply

    Unpredictable conditions and changing plant behaviour underscore the need to alter our gardening and landscaping choices
  • Hydrangea petiolaris - climbing hydrangea around blue door in archway in brick wall. The Garden House, Ashley, June

    10 of the best climbing plants for your garden, from honeysuckle to sweet pea

  • Change By Degrees composite for gardening in small spaces

    No backyard required: I tried growing vegetables on a 20th-floor balcony – here’s what I learned

  • Blackbird with worms

    Birdwatch: Britain’s dry springs put beloved blackbird under threat

  • Small aloe vera houseplant

    Houseplant clinic: why has my aloe vera gone floppy?

Pictures & video

  • two people picking up invasive grass and black mustard in a park

    California gardeners plant native species in parks to prevent wildfire spread – in pictures

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  • A six-seater table with an integrated wooden storage unit and wine cooler on onside and floor to ceiling glazing on the other. On the other side of the glass it a large blocky table with wood-topped benches

    Homes for sale with stylish interiors in England – in pictures

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  • Holocene House in Manly, by CplusC Architects Builders, is one of 16 properties shortlisted in the sustainability category of the Houses awards.

    Australia’s best new sustainable homes of 2025 – in pictures

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  • 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

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