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...Gardeners associate Van Gogh with sunflowers, famous subjects in his paintings, but his art has far more to offer, from almond blossom to roses, the gardens of others and the impact of trees....
...Today Friedrich’s wanderer would find himself close to a nondescript village, overlooking lawns, garden sheds and a trampoline from Lidl....
...She has that no-nonsense bravura one associates with English country dames....
...The pick is the National Rhododendron Gardens, recently rebranded as the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden, which is set across 40 hectares and offers views over the Yarra Ranges wine country....
...Salvatore called associates from other villages “clean people”. But, in Mileto, the stain that clung to the family was well known....
...And in my village Lazarivka, winter apples still hang on trees. There are also a lot of them in our garden and, because of their weight, the branches of apple trees have broken....
...N always wanted to have a winter garden with large glass windows....
...Diversity, however, is not what you’d associate with Alfriston. Or indeed much of the English countryside....
...In the winter, I gingerly slide on to the outdoor ice rink at the National Gallery of Art, encircled by glorious outsize creations in the Sculpture Garden beside the mall....
...A country bus took us around winding turns, deep into a carless quiet, to the little farming village of Ohara, 30 minutes to the north....
...Here are the names of the new hires: Kathy Reiland, former head of strategy and development at Standard Industries Jeff Livingston, former director at KKR Colin Rhind, former associate at Warburg Pincus...
...A carpenter’s son and ninth of 10 children, Gerrard Jude Robinson was born in Dunfanaghy, a Donegal fishing village....
...In May, Elric from Lyon bought a two-bedroom second home with a garden in Le Villard for his family after initially looking in Méribel and Courchevel....
...“I look at traditional menswear, something that you might have seen your parents wearing or that you can associate to a certain time in British history, but it’s brought into a new, modern place,” he says...
...Florence Barshall Model/student, studying English literature at St Andrews University T-shirt: West Side Story, opened 26 September 1957 at the Winter Garden Theatre, New YorkMusic: Leonard BernsteinLyrics...
...His latest venture, however, is Stratford’s Manhattan Loft Gardens, where the city’s rich history of garden squares has been reworked in vertical form for generation rent....
...London Helen Barrett Editor of House & Home Weary urbanites determined to buy bucolic bliss — or at least a home with a garden — with quick links to London and Paris look to the Kent and East Sussex coasts...
...“The harbour area has seen the greatest demand in the past few weeks,” says Tim Wenning, a senior associate director at the local Strutt & Parker office, who singles out the waterside villages of West Wittering...
...Andrew Nunn, director at estate agents Andrew Nunn and Associates, hopes the Conservative electoral victory could improve the market....
...“Blue light . . . is helpful when you need to work, while a warmer light is more relaxing as we instinctively associate it with firelight,” he says....
...“For a while, everything would sell at any price,” says Aymeric Sabatié-Garat, associate director Barnes Bordeaux....
...At The Common, a contemporary house in the village of East Stour near Gillingham in Dorset, this is achieved by supporting two simple wood-clad buildings on metal pillars so they “float” above the ground...
...Ours, Suite II, was a blissfully quiet one-bedroom unit, overlooking an untidy garden at the back, and so beautifully decorated it was almost tempting to stay put....
...For the 50 per cent of its buyers who do not play golf at Ombria, the “village” will offer wellness activities, hiking trails, bee-keeping, organic farming and astronomy....
...In New York’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood, Jack Scaba opened Hemped NYC in March. Around the corner is a rival store, Hemp Garden....
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