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...smaller-growing rose whose main enemy is its cumbrous name; Debutante, a small flowered rose-pink with a long season; Ethel, whose cupped pale pink flowers are later than most to open; and white Janet B...
...More than 20 varieties of coiffed box cultivars include Buxus latifolia maculata with its big glossy leaves; B macrophylla (good for larger hedges); the beautiful variegated “Elegantissima” and, of course...
...Maria Shollenbarger travelled with Cazenove+Loyd, which tailors trips to Morocco from £6,000pp for seven nights’ B&B including private experiences (excluding international flights). cazloyd.com, riadmenaandbeyond.com...
...Other parts of the palace are used for performances too, not least the Hall of Mirrors, where Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas can be heard on April 20, and the Chapelle Royale, where Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart...
...Others travel on to the free shuttle bus to and from Orsay station and the RER (B) train back to Paris....
...Peter Smith, the head gardener, has worked for the family for 46 years. I meet him in his “office”: a walled garden across a field from the Hall entered through a mysterious door....
...B&Q, for example, plans to make all its bagged compost peat-free from 2023. Travis Perkins has already done so for its bulk-bought products....
...I’m staying at Maison 76, Matthews’ luxurious, four-room B&B set in a former 18th-century apothecary. He tells me that the golfers are fewer now....
...There’s a much longer wait for planning permissions from the mayor’s office than usual, and my B&B will open in summer 2023 and not 2022,” she says....
...Paths should meander rather than be direct routes from A to B. He uses plants that add textural contrasts and movement such as the grass Pennisetum alopecuroides Hameln....
...Celebrity gardeners such as Monty Don have been strong advocates, though retailers such as B&Q have been slow to offer alternatives....
...Britain’s gardeners can expect higher prices and a reduced choice of plants in nurseries as a result of more post-Brexit bureaucracy imposed by the UK on imports from the EU, the industry has warned....
...A bit like the BBC’s Gardeners’ Question Time, only about food. Thanks to excellent researchers, we usually found a local speciality and a guest to talk about it....
...Before the coronavirus brought business to a standstill, Charlie Murless’s first year as a B&B landlord had been an entertaining one....
...Alice B-B travelled as a guest of The Blonde Hedgehog (blondehedgehog.com), from £230....
...One would be forgiven for thinking it incidental — the hand of the gardener here has a light touch....
...But we also cater to the enthusiastic gardener. If you see Monty Don on Gardeners’ World talking about eremurus, we sell them....
...Why are gardeners squeamish about this? The weather has warmed and I am no longer working in thermal layers, hat and waterproofs....
...Most of the irises which Morris dispersed were only from his “B” list and so the best may have disappeared. Morris was a quiet man with reserved depths....
...As any gardener knows, young plants have to be watered initially....
...She has just secured a B-17 second world war bomber along with a fleet of other vintage aircraft for a fly-past at a charity event at her home, she tells me with a spreading smile....
...Accommodation can be in short supply in the small town, but picturesque B&Bs in the surrounding country are a lovely alternative. The literary festival phenomenon is a relatively recent one....
...Confiscating the keys and gaining access, they found the mass cannabis farm and the Vietnamese “gardeners”....
...Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum and in technical drawing having attended a course at Columbia University’s School of Mines, she had begun her practice in 1895 billing herself always as a “landscape gardener...
...To begin with, she says: “We just hung a B&B sign at the end of the driveway and waited to see what would happen.”...
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