Hints and tips:
...That seems more useful than some of Dr Google’s advice....
...“Misting a plant briefly raises the humidity around the plant, but as soon as the leaves dry, the humidity reverts to its original state,” says Dr Scott Zona, author of A Gardener’s Guide to Botany....
...Dr Lydia Medland of Bristol University finds that a farmworker in the UK would earn about £70.70 for a seven-hour day but a worker in Morocco would receive a day rate of about £5.50....
...Among the rare rose Blushing Lucy and the forgotten pink Dr W Van Fleet, I looked out to great fountains of white Purity and wreaths of pink-white Princesse Louise and realised a rose-tinted truth: the admired...
...The space was originally the head gardener’s cottage, accessed through a garden planted with wisteria, lavender and English roses....
...Instead, they suggest, gardeners should look to the east of the US and the Eurasian steppe for planting ideas....
...Websites such as Bumblebeeconservation.org and RHS.org.uk provide helpful lists of plants to choose from, with Dr Andrew Salisbury, the RHS’s principal entomologist, advising that you should fill your garden...
...house wasn’t Ike but the man he assumed was the gardener....
...It is wrong to see him as keeping this diary in order to help local farmers and gardeners match the best crops to seasonal weather....
...Monty Don, gardener and presenter “Six am one Saturday morning in 1974....
...From writers to gardeners to musicians, the salon is full of brilliant people....
...The last music I bought was Best Dressed Chicken in Town by Jamaican DJ Dr Alimantado....
...Dr Margi Lennartsson-Turner likens the use of peat-based compost in gardens to burning fossil fuels, albeit slowly....
...It’s uncertain that Dr Darwin knew the factory from the inside, but Piesse is a conscientious reporter, pointing out that Charles’s “right to roam” was “in tacit company with his father’s wealth”, while...
...“There was this real idea of connection to the past and bringing it into the present,” says Dr Louise Stewart, curator of exhibitions at the museum....
...The multibillion-euro effort the two doctor-scientists launched, codenamed Project Lightspeed, led to “the fastest development of a vaccine since Edward Jenner inoculated his gardener’s son with cowpox in...
...For instance, I heard from Dr Rory Conn, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist for the NHS, who told me how beneficial gardening has been for him: “I have a highly stressful job focused on the...
...Head gardener Dave Boyd kindly sent me home with one of the agave’s pups, and once it has gained a bit more heft, I shall plant it out in my south-facing, gravelled front garden....
...“This is speculation,” says Dr Tim Spector, lead researcher, “but the reduction might be explained by Londoners moving to second homes, reporting symptoms, then staying in lockdown....
...The invitation was from Dr Isaac Herschkopf, a prominent New York psychiatrist known to his friends as Ike....
...Many of these motifs are found in the Dr Sun Yat-sen Garden....
...In addition to his work as a GP, Dixon is a keen gardener....
...The aftershocks of the transatlantic hurricanes sent days of dry wind, no gardener’s favourite....
...Southern’s guide, How Not to Kill Your Plants, is a one-stop shop of advice for indoor gardeners....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind by Dr Yuval Noah Harari....
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