Hints and tips:
...Dark blue monkshoods, or aconitums, are flowering near it with red Penstemon King George, another near-casualty of last winter....
...When I visit in late October, heaps of orange and yellow dahlias and dusky pink astrantia are giving a terrific late-autumn display....
...By then, she had been propositioned by the King, George II, who had tried to put his hand on one of her breasts....
...Dahlia tubers may seem like another culinary dead end, but here I was updated by one of my fellow visitors....
...I could have picked memorial bunches of pink and yellow dahlias, blue King George daisies, no end of pink nerines and green and black Salvia discolor, whose leaves smell of blackcurrants....
...Since George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, there has been wider recognition of the lack of diversity in the UK publishing industry....
...The lotus flowers and dahlias are in full bloom in the botanical gardens of Villa Taranto in Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy....
...The most famous of Ellroy’s novels, LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia, were also turned into Hollywood pictures, each of which he denounced....
...To make the most of your flowers, think seasonally — feathery tulips in spring, peonies in summer, hydrangeas and dahlias in late summer....
...In 1833 a superb vase, now in Edinburgh, includes lilies and dahlias....
...It used to fizzle out in the third week of the month after a final flurry of flowers on daisies and dahlias....
...In front of them, the latest-flowering of the healthy Michaelmas daisies reinforces the blues, the unstoppable old Aster King George....
...His best friend the statesman Georges Clemenceau, visiting the artist in his final weeks, arrived to find him ecstatic about a box of lily bulbs from Japan that “would produce beautifully coloured blossoms...
...In Britain, class-conscious gardening no longer derides dahlias as fit only for the lower classes or pesticide-free gardening as a middle-class fantasy....
...Above all, there are dahlias. If you left yours in the ground for last winter, you surely lost them all in the cold....
...Clouds of blue-flowered Aster King George have never looked better beneath them....
...Blue Dahlia, Black Gold : A Journey into Angola, by Daniel Metcalfe, Hutchinson, RRP£20, 368 pages At the end of his powerful new book, The Last Train to Zona Verde , Paul Theroux flees Angola in despair...
...After the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush cut taxes and exhorted Americans to go shopping to show their patriotism....
...In late October I will still be swamped with good blue daisies for picking off the unsurpassed King George....
...Asters such as King George or White Ladies or any of the tall hybrids all need staking too, always as discreetly as possible....
...Crûg Farm is packed with plants from all over the world: are towering tree dahlias from Guatemala, Japanese alpines and Chinese Beesia with its heart-shaped leaves....
...“You’re all in bloody denial,” erupted one exasperated MP, George Mudie, at one stage. Well, quite. And we were left wondering what was served at the RBS board dinners. Three-week-old scotch from Lidl?...
...The autumn of her entry to the institute, 1922, had been a “marvellous” year for dahlias: “big spiked red ones, white ones and a little bright orange kind – most lovely”....
...George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead also spins its web of media borrowings (blogs, newsreels, surveillance tapes), with a Wobblicam, too, much in use....
...From a veteran who we had thought was vanishing up the cul-de-sac of his own thriller fetishism (Femme Fatale, The Black Dahlia), here is a dazzling renewal....
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