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The following planning applications have been made to South Downs National Park Authority between December 3 and 10.

While walking around the yard clipping some greens for holiday decorating, I found a few gifts in the form of bird nests ...

Thank you for addressing my problem of rabbits eating my dwarf Burford hollies. I had actually considered using chicken wire ...

From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

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“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...