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Drought-resistant plants like hummingbird sage and rosemary are the ideal addition to Southern California gardens.

Samantha Brick speaks to women who have gone to great lengths to ensure their babies are born in September, after several studies point towards their academic abilities to be better in the future.

Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve is an oasis in the hills near Ojai with a backstory as lush as its landscape

Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve is a (semi) secret garden near Ojai that should be on everyone's "Go!" list.

AMONG the many people to have disparaged Bournemouth over the years is James Bond. In Ian Fleming’s 1954 novel Live and Let Die, the character of Solitaire is heaping contempt on St Petersburg in Florida as a place full of “oldsters” who go to bed at 9pm. “It sounds rather like Bournemouth or Torquay. But a million times worse,” says Bond. That image of Bournemouth as a retirement destination has persisted. The 1990s sitcom Waiting For God was set in a Bournemouth retirement...

Meet the families doing Christmas completely differently this year Covid restrictions have inspired many families to ditch the self-inflicted pressure to create the ‘perfect’ Christmas and try something new Anna, her father Neil, and her three children – Benny, Aggy and Alex Credit: Clara Molden I have spent the past seven years trying to recreate my childhood Christmas Day – and falling short. I grew up in a tiny farming village in Nottinghamshire, and on Christmas morning my brother a...