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...It’s 1968, and Joy (Elizabeth Banks) is the kind of suburban Chicago housewife who lives her life safely behind the police line, her hair perfectly coiffed in a pile of shellacked curls, while on the streets...
...Architectural Plants also specialises in balls and pillows to create “blobberies” and cloud-pruned topiary....
...If pruned early each year, it will grow about a foot and a half high, he notes, and will flower twice between May and late August....
...It flowers persistently until late October and its perfectly rolled little buds are enchanting for most of the summer. It will not grow above 6ft....
...The next day it was off to breakfast at a media company where the dapper chief executive guided me to a beautiful dining room and out to a perfectly pruned Japanese garden....
...Yearly they would be pruned down to a few inches, looking like twiggy root stocks for much of the year....
...A colleague once lost her Tobishos and discovered them a year later entombed in her compost heap — and they still worked perfectly....
...The owner pruned her furniture collection knowing it would be on display. “It’s all very carefully considered,” says Bell....
...The spreading branches can be pruned hard in winter and kept to the dimensions of a medium-sized shrub....
...Another advantage to natural ponds is that they are beautiful in all seasons, perfectly blending into the landscape even in winter....
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