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  • 1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jessica Doyle |Victoria Maw |Stephen Doig |Ria Higgins

    John Cooper has applied his 'graphic bohemia' style to a range for the British retailer. Here are the hits (and misses)For John Cooper, the winner of this year's series of the BBC1 show Interior Design Masters, creating a homeware collection to be sold in John Lewis was very much not his normal day job. It was also a first for John Lewis: its design team had not previously worked with a designer who was simultaneously juggling a full-time job as a secondary-school teacher.

  • 2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Maw |Stephen Doig |Ria Higgins |Aditi Sharma

    Wander through an English garden in May and you might be lucky enough to spot the first roses emerging, catch the sweet aroma of lilac on the breeze or watch a bee visiting the pulmonaria.

  • 4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ria Higgins |Aditi Sharma |Jessica Doyle |Jessica Salter

    A horrific accident at her home could have ended designer Vanessa Arbuthnott's career; instead, it influenced her latest collectionsStepping into fabric designer Vanessa Arbuthnott's Cotswolds house feels like a sun-drenched saunter through a very English meadow. Colours flit from soft sky blue to warm buttercup yellow... fresh air, fresh earth, fresh life. It's a tonic for the eyes and the soul, and a true testament to Arbuthnott's eye for delicate shapes and harmonious tones.

  • 1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Val Bourne |Holly Thomas |Tom Brown |Ria Higgins

    Lavender creates its own summer heat haze and the flowers attract bees and butterflies galore, because aromatic plants produce nectar that's packed with a concentrated mixture of sugars. This mainly Mediterranean subshrub has been grown here since Roman times, although it does need a sunny site and good drainage. Once established, lavenders are drought-tolerant, but they do need watering after planting because they rely on developing deep root systems.

  • 1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Connor Ibbetson |Jessica Doyle |Ria Higgins |Tom Brown

    Around early summer, your plants should start to produce flowers, which can be further encouraged with a high-potash fertiliser once a week to replace the nitrogen feed. A fertiliser that's high in potash would be a tomato feed or a comfrey fertiliser. Depending on the variety, the ultimate height of your plant should be achieved before too many flowers are produced.

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