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Planted: new zero-waste design show

Planted, the first contemporary design show aimed at reconnecting people and spaces with nature, promises an impressive line-up of sustainable brands to sit alongside programme of inspiring talks, so if you like design and you care about the environment, well don't miss this show if you're in London between 23-26 September.   

Jungle in Town: pop-up plants for Londoners

Jungle in Town  brings pop up plants sales to big cities including London. 

B&Q announces Gardener of the Year competition

The first B&Q Gardener of the Year competition should come as a relief to everyone who's lamenting the postponement of the 2021 Chelsea Flower Show until September. Gardening has proved a godsend to many over the past year and the country is benefiting from this industriousness in the form of many spruced up front and back gardens, plus the addition of millions of very beautiful window boxes that make our streets look so much more tempting.

Salad days with Acqua Tower

Interest in gardening, or more particularly interest in helping people with limited space to garden, is, thankfully growing as fast as grass and ivy do in summer.

Whether it’s prettier pots for indoor and outdoor plants, herbs for the windowsill or hydroponic LED kits so you can grow herbs and salad leaves on your kitchen table, it’s good to see that the garden sector is acknowledging that far more of us have little to no outside space than have rolling lawns and abundant herbaceous borders at our disposal.

Today we love: sculptural Alonsa LED pendant light

Beko looks at homes in a post pandemic world

Beko's report in collaboration with The Future Laboratory explores the long-term impact of global lockdowns on how we'll live in the near future.
 

Wild Week at Heligan

Heligan is poised to take on the challenge to create an enormous, World Record-breaking, insect hotel. Insects are crucial to life and Cornish bugs need a new hotel to provide them with a safe place to shelter and hibernate. The current World Record stands at 81.26m³ (2869.66 ft³), so the team will need help from as many Heligan Wild Things as they can.

AntikBar original vintage poster auction

Always a great opportunity to buy a fascinating piece of art, AntikBar is holding their next Original Vintage Poster Auction on Saturday 17 April. This online auction has over 500 lots featuring motor racing  - find the perfect gift for the car enthusiast in your life - as well as vintage posters covering cinema, propaganda, travel and sport.

View the auction catalogue and register to bid:

— Invaluable at www.invaluable.com/catalog/vc3yj2qz2v  

Today we love: Qwillow from Ikea

Plant clinic - keeping your plants fighting fit

Keep plants in full bloom is never that easy... despite our best efforts, plants can all too easily get out of shape. So if you want to learn how to care for them, Miracle-Gro is offering free virtual Plant Clinic appointments with gardening expert Kate Turner.

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