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Robin Lane Fox
Six essential plants for the beginning gardener
...If you own it, grow a David Austin rose as a climber up it. Sunny walls are best, but walls overhung by trees are the worst....
March 1, 2024
Gardens
New window on the secret life of orchids
...When grown at home in a pot, they will drown if overwatered, left standing in water or planted in a potting mix that is not free-draining....
July 18, 2023
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Health and wellbeing: six ways to get back to nature
Flour power: three men and a farming revolution
...“I put these tiny things in the potting compost and saw them sprout, then six weeks later I was eating them. It sounds so simple but it was transformational for me,” he explains....
October 20, 2021
Jane Owen
Charity under lockdown begins at home
...Forget The Great Pottery Throw Down: potters on that show are anomalous geniuses who create the fantasy that potting is easy, apart from the occasional teeth-grinding moments which Channel 4 has introduced...
April 17, 2020
Gardens
The secret life of sheds
...The four sheds — clad in charred larch planks (a Japanese technique known as yakisugi) — were designed to include a potting shed, a place to house bikes, tools and, “most importantly, a small space to get...
November 8, 2019
FT GlobetrotterRide with the FT
The best bike routes in London
...A short ride out from the centre, over the past decade it has become the city’s most popular spot for a few hours of training — even some of the sport’s stars, including Fabien Cancellara and David Millar...
January 10, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
News in-depthRetail sector
Garden centres look beyond the seasons for growth
...We sell a greater range of David Austin roses than anyone bar the David Austin website.”...
April 20, 2019
Personal Finance
Divorce: dividing up the family home
...“Were it not for the fact he had a very successful business, this wouldn’t have left him with enough to buy more than a potting shed in Ascot,” he says....
September 27, 2019
FT Magazine
Why crab pasties should be the UK’s national dish
...David, at 91, is the patriarch. His family have fished this coast since 1640 and, though these days he leaves most of the pot-hauling to his sons, he’s still at work on the beach every day....
July 27, 2018
Robin Lane Fox
A rose-tinted spectacle: new varieties versus the old favourites
...Photographs: Jonathan Buckley/National Trust Images; David Austin Roses...
June 20, 2017
UK prisons
Prison service seeks top graduates with ‘SAS-style mindset’
...He cited the penchant of some offenders for “potting”, or throwing excrement at officers....
December 21, 2016
Robin Lane Fox
Garden stylist: Yves Saint Laurent’s Jardin Majorelle in Marrakesh
...In 1987 David Wheeler started to publish a “Gardening Journal” which he called “Hortus”....
December 6, 2016
News in-depthUK politics
Jeremy Corbyn victory raises spectre of party infighting
...At odds of 100-1 when he entered the contest, the potting shed seemed his most likely destination....
September 12, 2015
FT Magazine
Tim Hayward’s Food DIY
.... ——————————————- Potting Potted lobster Both lobster and crabmeat can be potted in the same way as the more traditional shrimps: by sealing in butter....
June 28, 2013
Robin Lane Fox
The best time to visit Ninfa
...I love being offered a bag of potting compost in France under the name terre universelle. Weaselly animals sound less frightful as petites ermines. The change in horticulture can be fascinating too....
February 7, 2014
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Life & Arts
Beyond the froth and jargon
...Britannia, and took time to accommodate to the wonderland where the Turner Prize had recently been won by an artist switching a light on and off, and a potter more celebrated for transvestism than for potting...
November 24, 2012
Life & Arts
The Potting Shed, Finborough Theatre, London
...Zoe Thorne is strong as James’s astute teenage niece, who is determined to ferret out the truth, and David Gooderson is touching as James’s compassionate psychoanalyst....
January 10, 2011
Life & Arts
Hot bedding
...Dark-leaved dahlias such as “Moonfire”, “David Howard” and “Bednall Beauty” add vibrancy....
March 11, 2011
NotebookWorld
United v City in unfriendly match
...“David Beckham has offered to pose in his pants if it helps, or even if it doesn’t. And Roy Keane is standing by to nut anyone who opposes us....
March 4, 2010
Life & Arts
Boogie Woogie among the bulbs
...I put them in boxes filled with a light potting compost and when a topknot of leaves has developed well from each tuber I dig it out carefully and pot it on into a 4in pot, still in a heated greenhouse....
February 13, 2010
FT MagazineDavid Pilling
. . . and now for somewhere completely different
...David Pilling is the FT’s Tokyo bureau chief...
February 15, 2008
Life & Arts
Move over, Barcelona
...“The FA accepts Sheffield FC is the world’s oldest football club,” says David Barber, the official FA historian....
October 19, 2007

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