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...The entrance hall to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of...
...The route takes you past the Georgian Squares of Bloomsbury, past the bottom of Charles Dickens’s old street in Clerkenwell and, as it heads into Shoreditch, in view of the towering glass and steel skyscrapers...
...“We had visited Cannes, Antibes, St Tropez, all the way up to Grasse — but the houses were just too close together,” he says....
...After a failed first year, he learnt about yellow rattle, the spreading roots of which combat vigorous grasses and are essential to most meadows’ success....
...It will have just 12 individual bungalows constructed from local and reclaimed ironstone and ethically sourced kiaat timber, their roofs planted with grasses from nearby grasslands....
...The garden is high with salvias and grasses, the house is wreathed in climbing roses....
...Since lockdown started, Charles Allen and his family have been cooped up in their three-bedroom flat in Monaco, the sovereign city-state on the French Riviera....
...In his article, Richardson quotes Julian Bannerman, designer to Prince Charles at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, lamenting the “amoebic pools” of Oudolf’s Hauser & Wirth design....
...In his 2004 book, Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses, Charles Seabrook describes the largest and most southerly of Georgia’s Sea Island chain as a place blessed with empty white-sand beaches and...
...Chapeau then to the Scottish National Galleries in Edinburgh for stealing a march on other British institutions by mounting a show devoted to the influence of Charles-François Daubigny on the Impressionists...
...On the last day, we had barely walked two miles when we were met by Charles Gerbeir, a 60-year-old father of eight and our final host....
...Like all successful power brokers, Charles Pasqua made as many enemies as friends....
...The combination of lyricism and factual clarity make Mabey as much an heir to the “peasant poet” John Clare as he is to Charles Darwin....
...The property was once lived in by Charles II. Handel is also believed to have performed at the house. Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.com, tel: +44 20 7861 1080 Photographs: Andy Scott; Homem Cardoso...
...Using bold athletic brushwork, Benson expresses his models’ freedom and confidence through the dazzling contrasts between intense marine blues, hazy, green-gold grasses and the lustrous arctic whites of...
...Below Stow, I cooed on Monday morning as hundreds of fragrant, spotted and pyramidal orchids poked up through the grasses in turf on limestone. Then, there was a butterfly moment....
...They were great clothes for wafting around a field of waving grasses, but not so great for making a point. In fact, what was Ferretti’s point?...
...Charles Mann is admiring a couple of his prize Aberdeen Angus cattle when the subject turns to badgers....
...The first time Francis Mwangi’s Kikuyu family tried to bury him beneath the green grasses of Kenya’s Rift Valley, they were ambushed by Kalenjin men who claimed the land as theirs....
...Then Richard Alston’s cunning Dutiful Ducks, using Charles Amirkhanian’s dada-esque words as score for what was originally a solo by the young Michael Clark....
...Its taller green stems and grassy green leaves were thought to mix well with feathery ornamental grasses....
...I am waist-high amid rough dun grasses when Charles Frewen begins to shout. Gesticulating excitedly, he points to a gnarled bush of waving tendrils, its tallest branch barely a metre from the ground....
...Among the practical titles I like the calendar format and good pictures in Charles Dowding’s How To Grow Winter Vegetables (Green Books, £14.95)....
...“You want things with a dynamic to them, such as grasses that rustle and water reflecting light,” he says. “It’s all to do with the air we breathe and the sunlight.”...
...Available alone or now as pre-mixed, peat-free compost, the wonder material is biochar, a charcoal-like substance produced through the oxygen-free, slow burning of woody biomass garden cuttings, grasses,...
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