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...This year my Beauty of Moscow opened double flowers of pink-white on April 12. You will have been having other flowery surprises in this spring’s fast lane....
...By mid-April, my month was going grimly....
...On April 19 it will be the 200th anniversary of the death in Greece of that genius of a poet, Lord Byron: he certainly nailed this English spring....
...At Easter they are a joy, especially on shaded banks in country lanes. However, they will be over in a week’s time, long before the season when Adams imagined his rabbits migrating in the early 1970s....
...The show runs until April 21 with open nights on March 30 and several dates in April, dreamy occasions which will lift the spirits of flower lovers trapped in Manhattan....
...On April 11 she will be running a day course at her nursery entitled Sowing Seeds. Places at £60 each are limited but still bookable at specialplants.net....
...She may be the most celebrated actress of her generation, packing out the 3,600-seat Theatre Royal Drury Lane nightly, but Sarah Siddons is not happy with her lot....
...John Burn-Murdoch’s review of America’s lethal roads goes some way towards blaming the habits of America’s drivers for the carnage (Data Points, FT Weekend, April 20)....
...In April I was vowing I would never again risk plants of marginal hardiness after the sharp winter had massacred them. I have already broken my vow....
...After two consecutive hot and sunny Aprils I was talked into using ornamental onions, or alliums, instead....
...to have targeted or hit other ships in the Indian Ocean in recent weeks, the MSC Orion attack was the first recognised by one of the international organisations working to safeguard the area’s vital sea lanes...
...They can shred its narrow leaves when they appear in April. Otherwise, Little Carlow is indestructible, unless the soil is heavy and waterlogged....
...Economic data: Mexico’s national statistics agency INEGI reports inflation data for April....
...The flowers are pure white held on upright stems in late April, a newish arrival that grows and persists without being boring....
...They are played by a stellar ensemble that includes Diane Lane — as the acid-tongued Slim Keith, who leads the campaign to ostracise Capote — Demi Moore (Ann Woodward, the woman suspected of murder), Chloë...
...On a dreary Tuesday in April, the collective brightened up Storm Studio on Holloway Road in north London, where five of its members practised for the Brick Lane Jazz Festival....
...Some audiences, you sense, prefer a war cry. ★★★☆☆ In UK cinemas from April 19...
...Markets expect the European Central Bank to start cutting interest rates this year, possibly in April, from their current record high of 4 per cent....
...Cities introduced temporary cycling lanes and imposed vehicle restrictions on some roads....
...For the first time ever, the plants of Clematis montana on my garden’s arches remained brown in April....
...Robin Lane Fox will be speaking at the FT Weekend Festival on Hampstead Heath, London on September 2....
...From mid-April onwards, its magnolias and spring-flowering shrubs are magnificent and in August, its herbaceous borders are fuller than ever, often with perennial varieties that former gardeners in Ireland...
...Investors are betting the ECB will start cutting borrowing costs as early as April....
...But the couple remained together until Ellie’s death on April 12, aged 87. Their three children would also work in the movie business....
...They went to their Riviera homes in November and left in April and early May after enjoying spring flowers galore....
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