Hints and tips:
...Jasmine was trained over the balcony for privacy, while Japanese maple provides colour and evergreen azalea brightens up the winter months....
...During a busy schedule, I walked across the road past my hotel, the Asticou Inn, and checked out the Asticou Azalea Garden, now run by the island’s Land and Garden Preserve....
...For gardens placed like mine, cotoneasters have one great advantage. Unlike azaleas or rhododendrons, they will grow freely on alkaline soil, a fact of life with which I have to battle....
...Robin’s recommendations (all FT links get you past the paywall): –Robin’s public gardens, ‘the kissing fields’, are the gardens he runs at New College, Oxford....
...Robert Koenigsberger, founder of the Greenwich, Connecticut-based investment firm, told the Financial Times that distressed bonds of Chinese developers such as Country Garden, which currently trade at a...
...There are no camellias and no azaleas. Glasnevin stands on shallow soil, mostly very alkaline, the opposite of what outsiders imagine for a great Irish garden....
...Users remain in the walled garden of whichever Big Tech company owns the artificial intelligence platform....
...The New York Botanical Garden is a contemporary version of those mythological enclaves, the airy antithesis to the city that enfolds it. Inside are azalea walks and rose bowers....
...That is now in question, although Google is appealing: “The verdict knocks a big hole in the wall of the walled garden,” says Mark Lemley, a law professor at Stanford University....
...Meta could be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp; Alphabet to carve up its advertising cash machine; Amazon to change its pricing practices; and Apple to open up its walled garden....
...Azaleas tend to lose their leaves. They will last longer. Poinsettias are much easier to keep going. White jasmine doesn’t flower long enough, but is very difficult to kill....
...“If you’re a garden-variety biotech start-up with little revenue, the auditing isn’t that complicated,” said Jay Ritter, an IPO expert at the University of Florida....
...Sceptics (including your writer) questioned the wisdom of locating a property intended to compete with the likes of Claridge’s in the weird socio-demographic selva oscura between Covent Garden and Fleet...
...It is not a shrub for alkaline soil or dry gardens, so I have to admire it from afar. If you can grow azaleas and camellias in your garden soil, try this fine styrax too....
...In a limey garden give them a big pot of acid compost and water them with rainwater, not with a hose. Camellias lead naturally into azaleas and rhododendrons, those wonders of spring....
...If you have a garden with a high lime level in the soil it has never been any good trying to grow rhododendrons or azaleas. Long before Chatto’s slogan, they were the wrong plants for that place....
...The most important is that not all lilies will grow on alkaline soil, the type that is fatal to azaleas or rhododendrons....
...Beside the hieroglyphed Egyptian gate, azaleas emerge. The biodiverse woodland arboretum will soon be awash with magnolia, rhododendron, cherry blossom, scilla....
...The Grade II-listed house dates to 1827 and, like its neighbours on the garden square, was designed by master builder Thomas Cubitt....
...A brutally maimed dog climbs a hill only to die beneath the shade of a ginkgo tree; a rabid fox crouches ominously “amid the dense branches of a tall azalea”; and Prince Genji’s grandson encounters a shoal...
...Its leaves have five, sometimes seven, lobes, like starry versions of a plane tree’s: they are seen at their best on damp acid to neutral soil, basically wherever azaleas or camellias thrive....
...Their list is a treasure trove for readers with gardens in Europe....
...Although the key floral attraction is the rhododendrons on display, as well as azaleas and camellias (peak times September and October), the gardens are wilder than you might expect and you’re never far...
...Its prime time of glory is April until late May, when the camellias, magnolias, bluebells, azaleas and rhododendrons flower superbly beneath a canopy of tall trees, many of which are oaks....
...In a kitchen, dirt might be garden detritus, such as leaves and mud. In a garden, this dirt is “in place”, in Douglas’s terminology, and doesn’t need to be cleaned up. Context matters....
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