Hints and tips:
...It reminds Sarah Raven of “delicate Venetian marbled paper”, but it reminds me of Paris, though April is a month when no pois de senteurs flower outdoors there....
...They preferred the more delicate flowers on species crocus from the wild varieties with subtle feathering or striping on their petals and a slender flower bud....
...Robin Lane Fox will be speaking at the FT Weekend Festival, September 8, at Kenwood House, London....
...Taking a delicate piece of tuna, I ask if writing the book was cathartic. It was a chance, he concedes, to look back at failures as well as successes, acknowledging that he has had plenty of both....
...Their movements are restrained yet fluid, their gestures delicate and their gaze disarming. I feel awkward beside them....
...It doesn’t feel like winter without a visit to Old Delhi’s crowded lanes, one of my favourite parts of the city....
...Outdoors, flowers may be battered by rain but in the society’s halls, nothing muddies the petals or reduces crocuses to a limp mess....
...A gentian, snuggled beside a tussock of grass, began unfurling at a rate of about one petal every 30 seconds. The party of 16 gathered to watch....
...Austin’s list describes it as a most delicate blush pink, fading to white, but we agree that its shape changes from a shallow cup to a round rosette as the petals age and reflex....
...I doubt if you yet know Boogie Woogie, a “sensational trumpet with huge 8in-9in fragrant flowers of soft yellow picoteed on the petal edges with salmon”....
...In our milder winters my new favourite is the pale pink Allium Roseum, so much more delicate but best in a warmer winter climate....
...The great artist and gardener Cedric Morris selected the most delicate range of colours in this variety, catching the changing tones of a summer sky....
...They have such very delicate petals.” In the Institute of Harmonious Development, in early January 1923, she was “looking for signs of spring already”....
...They had gone one stage further, condensing their surroundings to a few fluttering petals....
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