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...The design of The Douglas, a boutique-style hotel from the Autograph Collection (an upscale group under Marriott’s umbrella) that opened in 2017, aims to tell this story from the get-go....
...White-flowered Rambling Rector was flowering all over the conifer hedges on the boundaries of my Old Vicarage; Treasure Trove, a seedling of the rampant white Kiftsgate, was covered in cream-apricot clusters...
...The driver took us above the cloud line, between high ridges of dark conifers, then, quite suddenly, pulled off the road into the overgrown car park of a derelict golf club....
...Or they cover it with non-native conifers, which some might argue is worse.”...
...The company plans for almost three quarters of the trees to be conifers, which are an outside species....
...These can be sold for cash to a growing group of companies seeking to offset their emissions....
...Speed and direction is different for different types of trees: the conifers are mostly heading north, while broad-leafed and flowering trees, such as oaks and birches, move west....
...After that, a management plan will guide community groups and local authorities on how to care for the woods, while signs will help people to navigate between the surviving pockets of the wood, providing...
...They cleared brush, launched fire-awareness campaigns and set up WhatsApp groups for reporting blazes....
...Brilliant red bushes of euonymus are set off by not-so-dwarf conifers, pruned so as to remain light and open....
...Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice, by CJ Schüler, Sandstone, RRP£16.99, 344 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe....
...White-fronted and cushioned by a conifer plantation, it’s an inn that has, for as long as I’ve known it, felt like it’s struggling to catch up....
...Environmental groups say that forest owners are at least partly to blame for the current malaise — and point to the widespread planting of profitable but vulnerable conifer trees in recent decades....
...He expects to attract family groups or close friends with a taste for activity, though anyone who fancies a day off will hardly suffer....
...January is full of depressing post-Christmas sights: the streets lined with discarded, denuded conifers; the TV shows you recorded interspersed with festive adverts; the supermarkets’ December trading statements...
...I do, however, recall recounting it to a seminar group comprising property developers, designers and architects....
...The Wealden Iron Research Group has identified more than 800 sites where iron ore has been smelted....
...In the west of Ukraine, about 160km south of Lviv, Bukovel is set between five mountains thickly clad with conifers....
...Concealed behind the conifers, a dozen Moroccan men gathered in an abandoned concrete building that was once a border customs booth and waited for nightfall....
...By then the conifers on the slopes of Mount Annupuri are buried under about 15 metres of the stuff. Hardcore skiers describe a sensation of floating....
...As he showed off his unusual prize to a group of dinner party guests, one of them – the noted barrister and Benthamist Charles Austin – remarked that the hard, very prickly leaves and their unusual overlapping...
...One of the very best groups of roses for Mediterranean or semi-tropical climates, like that of Bermuda, are the Tea Roses (not the hybrid Teas)....
...The famous Exbury hybrid azaleas are bred here and are shown in stunning colours, but there are also superb big rhododendrons, including lovely members of the Hawk group....
...During the 1980s, forestry companies drained a sixth of the Flows – about 160,000 acres – and planted them with non-native conifer plantations for timber....
...The Propagation of Trees, Shrubs and Conifers dates from 1965 and its author Wilfrid G. Sheat is described as a “Horticulturist, Ministry of Transport”....
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