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If your perennials are on their last legs, refresh your garden or outside space with berry laden shrubs that will give colour over the autumn and well into winter
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How environmentally friendly is wallpaper? If 'not very' is the answer...which it is.. what products can be used to make our walls green and interesting company? Kay Hill investigates
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Once you get your creative thinking cap on you'll be amazed at what you can upcycle
 ..and not just for Christmas of course because poinsettias come in many other hues from cream to green to pink. But we tend to buy them as a yuletide tradition and rightly so because they are inject much needed colour at this time of year |
 Natural insect repellent brand incognito has a new product - a room refresher it says will repel insects without the need for coils or plug-ins |
 You've got weddings or civil partnerships coming up... The happy couples have eschewed a list at John Lewis, Harrods or Selfridges, saying airily that 'anything recyclable, bio-degradable or generally CO2-lite will be simply divine!' Rejoice, there's much that fits the bill. |
 New College Swindon has appointed Swindon-based Hills Waste Solutions as its waste and recycling contractor in a three-year deal, following a competitive tender process. |
 Sales of candles, particularly fragranced ones, continue to grow. And we're seeing more small artisan manufacturers bring delicious, quirky, new fragrances to the market while striving to make their products environmentally friendly
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 Heat pumps can bring household energy costs down toless than £2 a day, according to new research |
 Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the film Jaws, endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has swum around Martha's Vineyard to raise awareness of the slaughter of sharks worldwide and its devastating effect on ocean ecosystems |
 For abstract art in lovely colours, Nat Maks' prints are unique as she uses the centuries old craft of Suminagashi |
 The Design Museum in London is extending until the end of May its Tim Burton retrospective. It's proving the museum's most successful exhibition ever, with more than 170,000 visitors to date |
