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It's been a wonderful year for vegetables in the garden but you need to make sure you're keeping up with their development! The grower of courgettes will have to cut them daily, searching among the rasping foliage, to prevent the fruits turning, apparently overnight, into monster marrows, which make for an occasional novelty, but are not always a welcome gift. French and runner beans also need to be rigorously looked over each evening, if possible.
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Listen up puffins, peregrines and seal pups — Big Brother is watching youThe Wildlife Trusts have installed more than 25 video cameras around the country that live stream activity from barn owl nests to popular puffin sites.
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The 'Rose Labyrinth' of Coughton Court, where 200 varieties come together in this world-renowned garden in WarwickshireVal Bourne finds the award winning-roses flourishing at Coughton Court in Warwickshire, where the historic garden is now in the hands of the latest in many generations of the same family. Photography by Clive Nichols.
