Hints and tips:
...The real fern on my staircase reaches for the sun. Every so often, I turn it round, like a dance partner, to stop its leaves growing unequally....
...Mesmerising photographs by Uýra show the Brazilian transgender artist and drag performer caked in white mud and crowned with ferns while wading in pristine blue waters....
...You might be — as one of my friends was — the person who spotted the potential of Harry Potter while you could still buy all your nephews and nieces a first edition from Blackwell’s....
...The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyondby Chris Blackwell with Paul Morley, Nine Eight Books £22/Gallery Books $28.99 Chris Blackwell cuts to the chase in his vividly told memoir: “There is no two ways...
...On a sunlit August afternoon, the 2,100 sq metre space is in full glory, with its palms, ferns, blossoms and hanging vines....
...I’m taken with the selection of well-aged lowboys, which would smarten up a landing or L-shaped entryway dressed with a lamp and a tray or potted fern....
...Alisha Blackwell-Calvert has experienced similar treatment. Based in Missouri, she’s well on the way to becoming only the fourth ever African-American Master Sommelier....
...The Saghro is a heaven for fossil-hunters....
...The result is a cloud forest ecosystem with mosses, orchids and ferns clinging to every surface....
...In 1872, when the Victorian adventurer and botanical artist Marianne North stayed at Clifton, she was enraptured by its gorgeous lilies, ferns and hummingbirds, and the steep hillsides covered with coffee...
...They envision themselves as hunters and the lost house as their quarry. In response, they have entitled their book on their major works Landscape of Dreams....
...more recent guide, Alys Hurn, who writes for the magazine Gardens Illustrated, recommends Alys Fowler’s Plant Love (“more scientific than the hordes of other houseplant books”) and blogs such as The Plant Hunter...
...At least the latter has a use, as part of a programme of hunters donating food for those in need. So the dispossessed eat venison, albeit the tough, end-of-season sort....
...The overwhelming desire to find a rare fern led the hunter or huntress to lean over fast-flowing rivers, descend precipitous ravines, wade through bogs, and scale rock faces and waterfalls....
...I began to understand why he is writing a book on the great plant-hunters. The greatest finds of the greatest hunters are still in the long grass all around us....
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...“So even when companies were struggling, as a percentage they were spending more on digital services as a communications method,” says Nigel Hunter, executive director....
...This gentle approach to the outside world is a delicious contrast to the time in the early 19th century when the RHS commissioned plant hunters to engage in what would now be called plant piracy in China...
...In time, there will also be a gallery, a meeting room and a library chosen by Philip Blackwell (of the bookselling family) but, at the time of my visit, the ministry of culture was still vetting his selection...
...Adam Afriyie Henry Angest Peter Baker Grahame Berkeley Sir Michael Bett Julian Blackwell John Blundell Jamie Borwick Keith Boyfield Iain Breese David Briggs Simon Camamile Paul Carter Stephen...
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