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Gardening: Slugs – how to ‘prevent, kill or deter’ them from Gardener’s World’s Mark Lane

Ask any gardener and slugs always come out enemy number one, but to understand how to prevent slugs, kill slugs or simply deter them off your prized vegetables and ornamentals, it’s important to know a little bit more about this creature. Most land slugs live beneath the surface, protected from predators such as birds, amphibians, and gardeners, away from the …

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Living colour: how Mark Rothko found light in his dark final years | Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko’s final decade is typically thought of as a journey into darkness, when the American abstract expressionist’s furnace-bright hues of the 1950s all but vanished. His canvases, huge as stage curtains, grew doomy with maroons, browns and blacks. The great smouldering Seagram murals, commissioned for a corporate dining room but withdrawn by the artist and donated to galleries, were …

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