Community: HomeGardening

There are the boring and the colorful flowers, plus the ones that don’t look acceptable at all,  just like when you see the uninviting smiles of a Venus Flytrap. But there’s a flower that’ll be nice enough to meet you or maybe kiss you with its luscious red lips. These lips belong to a plant with the scientific name Psychotria Elata, or commonly known as the Hooker’s lips. ... Yes, you’ve read it right.
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Fresh out of high school, I found a job cleaning the elegant home of an older couple. Among other duties, I had to dust their many imported carvings and petrified collectibles, as well as pick up after their pets.

One day, I was astonished to find two ivory fossils lying on the floor beside the bookcase. I quickly picked them up, and put them back on the shelf. The next week, the same thing happened.
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That afternoon, my employer came into the parlor, her faithful dog behind her. Looking around, she eyed the bookcase. "Nya," she asked the dog, "how in the world do you keep getting your bones up there?"
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A DUNKIRK “little ship” now converted into a three-bed home is on the market for £300,000.The former coal and flour transport was one of 700 vess

A house has gone on sale for around £475,000 that looks pretty unassuming from outside, but once through the doors some potential buyers might be put off by what's inside

These carnivorous plants generate tiny magnetic signals when they clamp down on insects.

YOUR home is your castle – and nowadays it is the office, gym and children’s classroom as well. With increasing demands on frazzled parents to help teach and work from home, how are we ever suppose…

“The original firehouse was built in 1836,” says Julian LaVerdiere, production designer and artist. “We wanted something that would have felt like it worked its way into the original architectural history.”