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...Brian Corr....
...Cedric Morris was prolific both as an artist and as a gardener, painting as many flowers, landscapes and animals as he bred variations of irises in his garden at Suffolk’s Benton End....
...Nigel worried about how to pay for Sissinghurst’s five gardeners, cook and chauffeur. That was in a country where 15m people still had no plumbed-in bathroom....
...She was a reporter and these are mystery stories based around a Japanese gardener in LA. He is 70 years old at the beginning of the first book, and ends up at 86....
...Patch [Patrick] Lichfield geekishly fiddled around with the equipment, Brian Duffy stomped about in a Che Guevara T-shirt. Wondrous Sarah Moon was always swimming....
...I asked Brian Galligan, the garden’s head of horticulture, how he got the job done. “Prisoners,” he replied....
...£79 Deadheading made easy. niwaki.com Copper verdigris pot, £65-£325 Copper allegedly repels slugs and snails. gardenbrocanteonline.com Kezia Washing, £19,950 as an edition of six Beauty in bronze. brian-alabaster.com...
...Then, Brookside threw off a variation, noticed by Brian Kabbes, the Dutch nurseryman who inspired me two years ago to go plant-hunting in the highlands of Kyrgyzstan....
...The disappointed pension savers Brian Copestick, 58, started investing when he realised his pension would not sustain the lifestyle he had expected....
...Fanny, a jealous woman who kept Stevenson on a short rein, ran the Samoan household like a Highland “clan-family”, complete with gardeners, servants and cooks....
...It did not go until early June, just in time for my dahlias with names like Brian’s Dream to move into good new loam. The removal of the old earth was no pushover....
...Ben McLannahan is the FT’s US financial correspondent Photographs: Brian Shumway...
...However skilled the gardener’s hand, climate and soil play a crucial role in the success, and the botanical content, of any horticultural enterprise....
...In 1908 brothers Hal and Robert Tubbs, both avid gardeners, discovered it after a year-long search for a retreat from New York City....
...The Marvels, by Brian Selznick, Scholastic, RRP£16.99/RRP$32.99 Part graphic novel, part prose narrative, The Marvels is a puzzle-box of a book....
...A Dorset gardener has grown the UK’s heaviest pumpkin, weighing 1,345lb or almost 700kg. That would make one scary Halloween face. brian.groom@ft.com...
...“We have gardeners coming out of our ears,” jokes Carol Mould, parish council chairman, who has lived in Rock all her life. “Letting agents, cleaners and contractors are all in demand.”...
...A mother is not a nurse, a mother is not a gardener or a security officer: she’s all of them altogether,” he said....
...“Jeez, Brian, those shoes look old enough to vote,” he said....
...There are five or six mates I have a drink with every Friday; a landscape gardener, a plumber, an electrician, a couple of policemen. They all rip the piss out of me. I have an ordinary life.”...
...The Kano scare emerged in the same area of Nigeria where Pfizer’s Trovan drug trial – associated by many with John le Carré’s novel The Constant Gardener – was blamed for 11 deaths just a few years earlier...
...Butterflies in November , by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, translated by Brian FitzGibbon, Pushkin Press, RRP£12.99 The unnamed narrator of Ólafsdóttir’s novel is a recently divorced linguist who has just won...
...After a week of hype here is one Olympic statement which gardeners will thankfully endorse. “The Olympics,” Danny Boyle has assured us, “could never be held in the country.”...
...Tim Gardener, global head of consultant relations at Axa Investment Managers, also has strong views. “Six years ago I would have said index investing was sub-optimal....
...., Bernanke received an e-mail from Brian Madigan, head of the Fed’s monetary affairs division, explaining that “as you’ve probably seen, markets have sold off again overnight” and updating him on activity...
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