Australia’s national architecture award winners 2021 – in pictures

From an off-grid astronomer’s abode to a modern-day coastal bunker, the Australian Institute of Architects have chosen this year’s best architecture from across the country

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Pink Beauties

        Hello everyone,     I took a walk around the garden yesterday and picked one last bouquet of pretty pink roses.  I am amazed that annuals are still doing well in gardens here as usually we would have a killing frost before now. I wanted to capture the beauty of my little bouquet so I added some pretty china to the mix. Delicate beauty Is there anything prettier than

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Why a glasshouse is the zenith of garden design

Growing rare tropical species in a glasshouse creates a magical world we can step into from a grey British winter

This weekend, wandering with a good mate through the spectacular labyrinth of foliage-filled corridors that are the glasshouses of Cambridge University Botanic Garden, we got to talking about a perpetual hypothetical conundrum of mine. If either of us – as tropical plant nuts – were to have unlimited funds, would we prefer to have a vast glasshouse in which to live out our horticultural fantasies or would it just make sense to get a garden in the tropics?

As someone who’s been obsessed since childhood with the mysterious, storybook atmosphere that rainforest species are uniquely able to create, my answer to this one has always been a surprise, even to myself. Despite all the limitations of glasshouses, from dramatically restricting the number and size of plants you can grow, to the limiting scope of features you can create inside them, I think I’d still settle for a glasshouse. That’s because, for me, part of the magic of tropical plants is precisely their rarity and exotic nature.

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The pandemic closed her L.A. plant shop. She's making a comeback with a holiday pop-up

Forget low-maintenance pothos and trendy fiddle-leaf figs. Yunice Kang's plant designs will dazzle you like works of art in a museum.

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Hello everyone, We have closed up our little cottage for the summer and settled in at home once again. Summer reading days at the cottage are gone until it is cottage season once again. The last week at the cottage we finally finished the front of the bunkie. We put in a bigger window on the front and shingled the front as well. It was so nice to get it done. The back room of

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Hello everyone, We have closed up our little cottage for the summer and settled in at home once again. Summer reading days at the cottage are gone until it is cottage season once again. The last week at the cottage we finally finished the front of the bunkie. We put in a bigger window on the front and shingled the front as well. It was so nice to get it done. The back room of

* This article was originally published here

* This article was originally published here

Hello everyone, We have closed up our little cottage for the summer and settled in at home once again. Summer reading days at the cottage are gone until it is cottage season once again. The last week at the cottage we finally finished the front of the bunkie. We put in a bigger window on the front and shingled the front as well. It was so nice to get it done. The back room of

* This article was originally published here