Round And Round The Garden

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• Home Style: Modern Outlook

  Downsizing couple Pauline and Bill chose practicality over space, but didn’t compromise on their love of mid-century style

• Blooming Times: Dahlia Mania

  Inexpensive, hardworking plants with blooms in a vast array of colours and shapes - no flower is perfect, but dahlias come pretty close, says Flo Whitaker

• Home Style: Time to Heal

  After losing her husband, Tracy Nors threw all her energies into renovating a period terrace in the pretty town of Rye

• Blooming Times: Spring into Summer

  Say the word ‘bulb’ and thoughts of spring immediately come to mind - but there are some bulbus characters to plant now for summer colour. Flo Whitaker selects a few of her favourites

• Home Style: Farm Stay

  While living in a tiny cabin on the family farm, Freddie and Katie Pack saved up to build their dream house on a plot a few fields away

• Home Style: Romantic Vision

  Tim and Jenny Backshall rescued a derelict timber-framed hall house, respecting its history while future proofing for generations to come

• Homes Extra: Dining Style

  Sara Whatley is singing the praises of the dining table and looking at different styling options for it

• Blooming Times: Spring Fever

  February is often labelled the cruellest month in the horticultural calendar. However, Flo Whitaker suggests there is still plenty of opportunity for growth

• Home Style: Forest Idyll

  Moving the kitchen became the start of a much bigger project for the Buckinghams, as it created opportunities to change their new home

• Blooming Times: What's in a Name?

  Botanical Latin may seem daunting, but it’s designed to be helpful and informative, says Flo Whitaker

• Gardening: The Benefits of Hedges

  Gardeners are a flower-obsessed lot, greedily seeking out the latest, brightest blooms. That’s all very well, but ephemeral flowers need a stage to perform on. Plant a hedge - they add structure, benefit wildlife and look good all year round.

• Home Style: Treasure Trove

  The interior of a quaint, white-washed cottage in Sussex has been transformed into a colourful home full of character by a couple of keen collectors.

• Blooming Times: Awesome Alliums

  Easy-going and beloved by bees - now’s the perfect time to plant allium bulbs for a spectacular display next year. Flo Whitaker picks some of her favourites.

• Homes Extra: Truly, Madly, Deeply

  Fall in love with your soft furnishings again this autumn and make it the season to snuggle up in style, says Sara Whatley

• Home Style: Clear Vision

  Jacqui Elliott Williams has relished bringing this elegant Victorian house back to life with confident ideas, stylish choices and creative flair.

• Homes Extra: Parasol Power

  Pretty parasols are enjoying their moment in the sun and making our outside spaces spin with style, says Sara Whatley.

• Blooming Times Garden Lore - Fact or Fiction?

  The horticultural world abounds with bad advice and old wife’s tales, but some pronouncements are scientifically sound, says Flo Whitaker, as she asks, “True, or false?”

• Home Style: Beaming with Happiness

  Lisa and Matthew Good wanted a property to add value to, sell and move on – but they ended up so enamoured with their renovation that they decided to stay put.

• Sussex Homes: Transforming a dark and unloved cottage into a Greek Escape

  Helen Robinson has transformed a dark and unloved cottage from 1837 into a bright and inviting space with a Mediterranean feel in St Leonards-on-Sea.

• Sussex Homes: Transforming a once unloved oast into a colourful and funky family abode

  Sam Fallon, who works in advertising and husband Nick, who works in publishing have transformed a once unloved oast into a colourful and funky family abode near Tunbridge Wells for themselves and their daughters Tilly and Isobel.