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Quilted Velvet Garden wins gold at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2009
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See the winning garden Take a look at the gold medal winning show garden from 2009 RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. Designed by Tony Smith, the garden consists of a rich carpet of over 30,000 minature oak trees surrounded by imposing oak structures. In the

10 popular summer gardening questions
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Barb Pierson, Nursery Manager, White Flower Farm With so much in bloom, summer is a great time to be working in the garden, but you might encounter a number of puzzling issues. Here are answers to . 1. Can I save seed from my tomatoes and start my own

Budget (and Beautiful!) Art for Your Home
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Looking at bare walls can be boring. Even the words look kind of similar - bare and boring - don't you think? If your finances have been blown on a move, wedding, furniture, or other necessities, you have to get creative and make some of your own budget

Despite Economic Doldrums, Samsung Strikes "Gold" with "LED" TVs
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Bucking conventional wisdom that making a profit in the television market is getting harder and harder as prices fall and the economy stagnates, Samsung's television profits are up, mostly due to their new higher-priced 'LED' TV line. With aggressive

Chief Bratton lists his Los Feliz home at $1,875,000
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The Los Feliz home of L.A. Police Chief William J. Bratton and his wife, Rikki Klieman, has come on the Multiple Listing Service at $1,875,000. The one-story house, built in 1964, has four bedrooms and three bathrooms in 2,716 square feet. Described as

Pests on French lavender
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Readers' letters: how to tackle minute bugs on French lavender Helen Yemm Published: 1:18PM BST 09 Jul 2009 French lavender (Lavandula stoechas) can be more tricky to grow than English varieties Photo: Julia Mortimer has written in about a French

It's weird and wacky: the Future Gardens show has barely a flower in sight
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A surreal new conceptual gardening show, Future Gardens, is a delight Tim Richardson Published: 12:25PM BST 09 Jul 2009 Nest, one of the surreal displays at the new conceptual design show, Future Gardens in St Albans Photo: HELEN FICKLING Future Gardens

When to cut back delphiniums
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Readers' letters: how to cut back delphiniums after they have flowered Helen Yemm Published: 11:23AM BST 09 Jul 2009 Delphiniums planted en masse. Cut them back after flowering to about half their height to avoid leaving a hole in the border A reader

How to grow cherries
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Enjoy the cherry harvest while they're in season RHS Advisory Team Published: 11:00AM BST 09 Jul 2009 Cherries are delicious in summer. Photo: The traditional signature of summer is here: the cherry. Pick over the trees two or three times in the season

Gardening Tip of the Week
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Watch for striped or spotted black-and-yellow cucumber beetles on young cucumber and cantaloupe vines. The beetles transmit a bacterial disease that can cause sudden wilting as the vines reach their peak in a few weeks. Use an organic pesticide labeled

Summer House Horrors
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Leeches, mice and mold ? experts share the lowdown that can save you from a real summer rental nightmare.

Art and Life Meet at the Ideal Spot
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A North Carolina couple collaborated on a home they call Cassilhaus, a residence for themselves with a separate gallery for their art collection and a studio for artists in residence.

How to Water Well? It Takes Some Strategy
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Everyone knows how to use a hose: You turn the spigot and the water comes out. Watering a vegetable garden, I figured, couldnt be much harder. There is the tricky matter of attaching the hose to a bold new technology called a sprinkler. I may be an early

How fog colors a palette
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As diverse as San Francisco's streets and homes are, there is one thing they all have in common: the fog. Although the sun may peek out sooner in some neighborhoods, the misty haze is familiar to everyone. For designers who work in the city, the fog and

Easy Crafts for Summer
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Long, slow afternoons and summertime road trips can yield surprising materials for modern DIY projects. Turn moody vacation snaps or beat-up maps into mementos far more personal than anything you can find in a souvenir shop. Or use blooms of the moment

How to Wash Paintbrushes
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I'm planning to spend the weekend painting my house, and I'm not sure what to do with the brushes and rollers when I'm done. It took gallons of water to clean them the last time we painted, but maybe that's better than using the cheap, disposable kind?

Blog Watch: Table settings, design books and more
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Our picks to click this week: -- Laura Casey Interiors (http://www.lauracaseyinteriors.com/blog) provides a primer on table settings with diagrams from Emily Post. -- Alkemie (http://alkemie.blogspot.com) discusses 'staple' interior design books and

Helping Homeowners Make Less of a Mess
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Don't be fooled by Trish Suhr's honey-soaked Southern twang. The peppy, Kentucky-born co-star of the Style Network's 'Clean House' is ruthless when it comes to ridding people of their clutter. Last week, Suhr, Niecy Nash and the rest of the 'Clean House'

Is It Time for New Finials?
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Is your drapery treatment fine but the drapery hardware old and tired looking? Instead of changing out the whole window treatment when it's in good shape, freshen up the look by changing out the finials on the end of the rods. Many homes have a simple

WOOD: An exhibition of ethical homeware
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Wedge Car by Gitta Gschwendtner 'Can be enjoyed by adults and children ... The car playfully hints at having ended up wedged underneath a door accidentally, telling a story beyond pure function' Get a sneak preview of WOOD, a new exhibition at the Oriel

Property gallery: Old and new
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Historic home: Devon. Beyond the Tudor door of this longhouse in Strete is an ancient inglenook fireplace with two bread ovens. The utility room is an old smokehouse with a domed cobbled stone ceiling and there are ruins in the garden of a 15th-century

Claire Ptak's perfect strawberry cupcakes
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The California cake queen's favourite summer recipe Take perfectly ripe strawberries that are shiny, plump, and with robust green calyxes. Eat them at room temperature dipped first in a bowl of light brown sugar and then into a bowl of crème fraîche.