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Confident pruning is the secret of splendid shrubs

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:58:00 +0100

NOVICE gardeners are often scared of pruning, but really it's very simple.

Plant of the week: Wisteria floribunda

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:52:00 +0100

EARLY summer is wisteria season, when the foot-long sprays of flowers drape down dramatically from their parent vines.

Mindy gets swept up with enthusiasm only to have a brush with disaster

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:31:00 +0100

MRS Stone age, I should imagine, swept out her cave with a tree branch. So when her husband came home one day with a bunch of twigs tied to a stick she must have been delighted. But that's where sweeping technology stopped for the next million years, to the great inconvenience of horse-lovers everywhere.

Golden moments sorely missed

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:01:00 +0100

SOME would think pilgrimage is a sacrilegious word to use in the context of journeying to see a bird.

Sorry to see the back of game’s biggest icon

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

WHEN David Beckham announced he was to stop playing football the news cascaded around the globe.

Kit doesn’t suit John Terry

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

EDEN HAZARD, who was ruled out of the biggest match of his young career through a cruelly-timed injury, was wearing a suit as he hobbled up the steps among his Chelsea team-mates when they collected the Europa League trophy last week.

Wigan still a big success

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100

THE relegation of Wigan last week, three days after their magnificent triumph in the FA Cup Final, was accompanied by a surprising amount of negativity from neutral observers.

The real tragedy of the 'bedroom tax suicide'

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:39:00 +0100

A SUDDEN death in the family can often trigger a slew of questions and sometimes an uncomfortable sense of guilt. Could you have done more, should you have visited more frequently, possibly even why didn't they say they were in trouble?

Race fears let down ‘white trash’ victims

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:39:00 +0100

AT A TIME when a town cannot fly the St George’s flag for fear of offending Muslims, I can understand why no one is saying it.

Angelina Jolie's femininity in no way dimished

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:33:00 +0100

HOW reassuring to hear that Angelina Jolie doesn’t feel any less of a woman after having a double mastectomy, saying: “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”