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Vibrant fruits and berries are now starting to keep our gardens bursting with colour – but many come with myths and secrets!

Although it’s now a beloved breakfast staple, the divisively delicious blood sausage has had a chequered and visceral history, reveals Patrick Galbraith

These fab plants deserve to be in every garden

Nature’s spiky deterrents–thorns, spines and prickles–may be quick to catch us out, but they can also prove to be a useful ally, discovers Laura Parker

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities