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The world's ugliest plants: Green and unpleasant ugly plants
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Ugly or intriguing? You be the judge in this battle of the aesthetically challenged to find the world's ugliest plant. Published: 7:30AM BST 12 Jun 2009 RHS experts have scoured the planet to produce a list of the world's 10 ugliest plants. Their choice

Leonardo DiCaprio sells Malibu home that was listed for $7,999,000
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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has sold a bluff-top contemporary in Malibu that had been listed at $7,999,000. The main house has two bedrooms and two bathrooms in 2,374 square feet. Walls of glass frame ocean views in the living room, which has a fireplace and

What's Your Decorating Challenge?
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As long as you are in love with decorating, you will always have your share of decorating challenges! It makes it more fun, in a way, and sometimes you also learn much more after you've overcome a challenge in your decorating project. You might be

Find Storage Space in Your Home
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Ideally, everything you own will have its own place, and the clutter will be almost non-existent. But that is ideally... In reality, many homes are craving for more storage space, while the closets are stuffed to the maximum. Of course, if this is the

How to Pick a Contractor: Getting Bids and Evaluating an Estimate
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Sometimes you come upon a home repair project that you decide to tackle with a checkbook instead of a hammer. You may decide to hire a professional contractor for a major roofing project or exterior home painting or any number of possible projects.

Pruning: the summer snip
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Lightly prune summer flowers to help prolong the growing season Val Bourne Published: 5:07PM BST 11 Jun 2009 Summer snip: Geranium 'Johnson's Blue' is among the spring and summer flowers that benefit from a light prune Photo: Andrew Crowley Ten minutes

North Texas Water Garden Society's Tour of Ponds features pastoral Garland property
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Some guys build a house. Kent Wagner built a pond. A pond can take longer. Kent Wagner's whimsical property is on the North Texas Water Garden Society's pond tour Saturday and Sunday. '>Photos by LOUIS DeLUCA/DMNKent Wagner's whimsical property is on the

Where the wild things are
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Can common newts climb sheer metal walls? Please tell For the past three visits to the allotment, I've found a hole dug in the path between Mary's and our plots. In exactly the same place each time. Dug by what we can only imagine is a fox. Usually I

Love Alters the Landscape
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The artist and garden designer Paula Hayes?s postage-stamp-size garden proved to be a space where the bromeliads, and her own love story, could flourish.

A Cheap Date, With Child Care by Ikea
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Over-stretched, money-conscious parents are using the stores supervised play area as their personal baby-sitting service. Member ID orE-Mail Address: Password: Remember me on this computer.

No More Mildew!
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Stiff scrub brush, bucket, rubber gloves, and cloths Vacuum with soft brush attachment Mild soap Furniture polish Baking soda Biggest Challenges 1. Spotted towels, clothes, and outdoor gear 2. Blotchy bathroom walls and curtain liner 3. Stained, musty

10 things you never knew about Father's Day
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We're celebrating Father's day with weird and wonderful facts 1) Father?s Day was invented by American Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd who wanted to honour her father, a veteran who had, as a single parent raised his six children. The first Father's Day was

Peter Seidler sells Los Feliz home for $4.6 million
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Peter Seidler, the grandson of former Dodger owner Walter Francis O'Malley, has sold his home in the Los Feliz Oaks area for $4.6 million, making it the highest-priced sale on record so far this year in Los Feliz. The four-bedroom, 4 1/2 -bathroom

Second-hand news
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Dancing to LPs playing on my parents' '60s-era stereo cabinet is one of my favorite childhood memories. Troll the many secondhand furniture shops in San Francisco's Mission District and you're bound to discover items that stir your own fond

Plus: OSB sheeting substitute not worth it
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Q: A while back, you wrote a column about replacing a wood shake roof with asphalt shingles. You said it was necessary to install new plywood or OSB (oriented strand board) sheeting over the 1-by-4 skip sheeting to provide a surface to nail the asphalt

It's Hurricane Season: Advice About Protecting Your Home
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Never mind the heavy rainstorms of the past week: Hurricane season began June 1, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a near-average year. That means a 70 percent chance of having nine to 14 named storms, four to seven of

Bookcase Buys
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Bookshelves have undergone a mod metamorphosis in recent years, with way-beyond-the-English-manor looks including ladder-like models that slant against the wall, such as Pottery Barn's Studio Shelf ($299 each, http://www.potterybarn.com), and Brave

Tips for Artful Storage
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You can judge a book by its cover when figuring out how to store your volumes and make a space look swell. Here are some tips: -- Alternate placing books vertically and horizontally on shelves to add interest. Older volumes should stand upright. 'Laying

The best of British cut flowers
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As buying British cut flowers becomes more popular, farmer Lance Whittingdon reveals how he's working with Marks & Spencer to produce flowers for fabulous bouquets Sarah Raven Published: 3:51PM BST 10 Jun 2009 British cut flower producer Lance

BUY OF THE DAY: Penguin Book Deckchairs from Bloomsbury
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Perfect for lazy days in the summer Naturally, this week's weather has not been my ideal choice for June. However, I've decided not to be disheartened - in fact, I'm going to be optimistic and invest in a deck chair so that I can bask in the summer

Home Theater Term of the Week - HDTV
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HDTV stands for High Definition Television. HDTV refers to both a series of broadcast standards approved by the FCC for consumer use and the high definition television hardware needed to display HDTV images. The two main standards used in HDTV

The Truth About "LED" Televisions
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There has been a lot of hype and confusion surrounding the introduction of 'LED' Televisions. Even many marketing representatives and sales professionals that should know better are falsely explaining what an LED Television is to their prospective