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...The priorities here are hardy perennial geraniums, except the admirable Rozanne and its lookalikes, which will continue to send up blue flowers....
...Similarly to Hardy, Roxy Mankoo launched April’s Baker on the back of a diploma in art and design....
...Designed in an “L” shape with the front door in the interior corner, it had stone foundations and was made of hardy cedar wood with a wooden shingle roof....
...A naturalistic blend of hardy perennials and ornamental grasses, this style — made famous by Piet Oudolf and James Van Sweden, among others — is often referred to as the Dutch New Wave....
...They draw on too many varied resources, from bedding plants to dahlias and the many types of half-hardy salvia....
...Judging by the mood in the Earl of Doncaster hotel on Thursday night, they are probably right....
...Advantageous, meanwhile, offered a feminist take on sci-fi; bromance Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (which premiered to a standing ovation) took comedic liberties with the formulaic weepie; and the gentle...
...Among the American painters to descend on this pocket of northern France were Cassatt, Sargent, Robinson, John Leslie Breck and Theodore Earl Butler, who would go on to marry Suzanne Hoschedé, whose mother...
...It is entirely hardy, but she keeps it trimmed and twines its shoots to their supports so as to make a pillared, neat shape about 10ft high....
...The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury was the famous Victorian social reformer, commemorated by the statue of Eros....
...Coke of Norfolk inherited the estate from his great uncle, the first earl of Leicester....
...I have just seen two magnificent mimosas in full flower as free-standing small trees in adjoining front gardens near Earls Court....
...The earl’s face contorts slightly when asked whether, like other country estates, Goodwood bleeds money. “That’s true,” he says....
...In recent decades, it could be argued that the exuberant formal gardens promoted by people such as Rosemary Verey, Sir Roy Strong, Lord Carrington and Sir Hardy Amies in the 1980s were in some ways a reaction...
...It has been walking with provocative smugness all through the last flowers on my hardy chrysanthemums....
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