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...Matthew J Sánchez, the founder of LA-based scent brand Matteo Parfums, uses ingredients from third-party companies that offer independent perfumers access to a library of responsibly sourced scents: his...
...Now try this Although I am distraught about the end of Radio 3’s weekend jazz programme, J to Z, I am very happy indeed that its new schedule moves the wonderful Night Tracks an hour earlier....
...Every year, the bestseller lists feature celebrity memoirs and works by dazzling and established literary stars — but also reader-driven surprises, from Sarah J Maas’s romantic fantasy series, including...
...Other fragrant shrubs include Daphne, Sarcococca (Sweet box), Hamamelis and Edgeworthia in late winter. Dormant herbaceous perennials also offer interest....
...This green tweed has a wonderful texture that keeps your interest and keeps you warm. drakes.com J Nismes-Delclou armagnac, £230.50 for 500ml I love Armagnac in the winter....
...The top layer was made up of white-flowered Crocus biflorus, one which I bought from J Parker’s as Crocus chrysanthus Miss Vain: it is especially good because it has bright orange-yellow stamens in the middle...
...He travelled by foot, tram, “motor coach” and chauffeur-driven Daimler (he was a successful author by this time) to absorb “the lovely thickness of life”....
...Daphne’s 112 Draycott Ave, London SW3; daphnes-restaurant.co.uk Aqua Kyoto x Veuve Clicquot terrace Devour Japanese fare of rock shrimp tempura (£22) and black cod gyoza (£18) or a special pairing dish...
...“Ah,” he says, looking at the orchard, “how lovely, you’ve left it wild.” Ha! If we’d left the wretched orchard to its own devices it would have returned to being a hogweed, dock and nettle colony....
...So much has been so turbulent in life since 2019, but I find it reassuring that there are alpine gardeners who have been growing plants like the lovely Daphne cneorum pygmaea from seed sown in autumn 2019...
...Another spell followed in late January and left us with dead bedding, dead hebes, dead cistuses and, in my case, dead daphnes and a dead wisteria on an arch in open ground. Replacements are not cheap....
...After last winter my beloved Daphne odora, with a gold edge to its leaves, has blackened stems and is dead. So is the hardiest penstemon, scarlet red Firebird, which is usually a safe banker....
.... £9.99 Majestic J Navascués, Cutio Garnacha/Carineña 2020 Carineña (14.5%)Mainly Grenache with Carignan from a star winemaker....
...At the sturdier side of the market are brands such as Davy J, inflected by the trend for cold-water swimming....
...Have a lovely weekend and we’ll find each other again on Monday....
...Like Daphne mid-transformation, the tree nymphs, if that is what they are, stretch their limbs into mangrove roots, reaching beneath the surface for sustenance....
...My salmon, served with grilled fennel bulb, is lovely, but Nolan’s meal is sinful, practically pornographic....
...A garden design, lovely performances, great interaction with the audience, a delicate balance between sweet and sour — the Globe enjoyed a summer hit....
...On the sides the detail is intricately lovely: the Hotel d’Anvers with its double-storey pilasters; graceful 18th-century houses, their height exaggerated, lining the Quai Henri IV; fishing craft gliding...
...No daphnes, no mahonias: how could I? Like you, I could choose dozens more, but this list is simply here to guide and provoke you. Six of the best is never enough....
...I go to sleep in a haze of Tibetan poppies, white-flowered celmisias from the Antipodes, daphnes of the choicest kinds, blue gentians galore....
...It’s fun, it’s a lovely way of meeting people and understanding what people want and how they think about gardens.” A one-hour session is billed at £300....
...To be enjoyed with food that’s not too assertive; turkey would do it. £52.68 J&B More stockists from Wine-searcher.com....
...“It’s like… your great aunt knitting a terrible outfit for your lovely little baby, and you have to dress her up in it to keep everyone happy.”...
...From hard experience I have learnt that the small corms of the lovely Crocus tommasinianus are badger-proof and squirrel-proof....
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