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...Her earliest memories were sensual: the song of the skylark, the scent of flowers, the shadow cast by her body as she played in the gathering dusk....
...They flower longer and resist mildew....
...Eminence Marine Flower Peptide Eye Cream, £69 for 30ml; theskinsmith.co.uk....
...And, no doubt, the many FTSE 100 chief executives at the Chelsea Flower Show this week deem these efforts blooming marvellous....
...Absolute Flowers & Home, 12-14 Clifton Road (020-7286 1155; absoluteflowersandhome.com). Maguro, 5 Lanark Place (020-7289 4353; maguro-restaurant.com)....
...A week after picking up the People’s Choice Award at Chelsea Flower Show for the Welcome to Yorkshire garden, I stood down as managing director of Clifton Nurseries in Little Venice, London, and set up my...
...It is May once more, and for much of the horticultural industry that means one thing: Chelsea Flower Show....
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London Photographs: David Steele / Alamy; Alamy; Steve Pridgeon/Alamy; Susanna Masters/Alamy; Arco Images/Alamy; Bob Gibbons / Alamy; Ray Wilson...
...Starting this summer, I’m going to get them to grow Dracunculus vulgaris, the stink lily, a plant that exudes the ripe stench of rotting flesh when in flower....
...I perhaps owe it to flowers that I have become a painter.”...
...By midsummer it is blooming, the flowers opening from the bottom to the top of the flower spike over weeks, during which time they will be visited by droves of pollen and nectar-loving invertebrates....
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London Craigieburn Garden near Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, is open to the public from Easter to October Photographs: Val Corbett; Frieda...
...She first encountered the plant in the early 1970s, a poor specimen without flowers or buds....
...In flower, it is a beautiful little thing, with blooms of pink, white or blue reminiscent of the sweet pea, its ornamental sibling....
...He’s still there — I’ve named him Clifton....
...Catalpa fargesii f. duclouxii Summer flowering tree with large leaves and foxglove-like flowers in mid summer....
...In the corner of a field on our flower nursery my father had made an earth berm to contain the water from a small ditch that trickled languidly in summer and flowed more purposefully in winter....
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London Photographs: Alamy; Getty Images/Flickr RM; Redux/Eyevine; AFP/Getty; Robert Mabic/GAP Photos Letter in response to this article: Bees’...
...For almost a decade I worked for the Royal Horticultural Society, organisers of the Chelsea Flower Show since its inception more than a century ago....
...And until recently the form of the most elaborate and elegant — from Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge to the Sydney Harbour Bridge — was determined simply by what engineers believed to be the most effective...
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London Photographs: Matthew Wilson; Humphry Repton...
...honda.co.uk Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London, and designer of this year’s RBC garden at Chelsea Flower Show Main photograph: Rick Pushinsky...
...Later this year my Chelsea Flower Show garden for Royal Bank of Canada will be recreated in a new permanent location....
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries, London Photographs: Sven Torfinn; Steve Forrest; Rachel Warne; Dieter Telemans...
...I grew up on my parents’ nursery in Kent, where huge glasshouses were flower factories, controlled environments that could be manipulated to advance and retard growth and flower bud initiation....
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