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...I live on a beef farm in East Sussex and once had a pet cow called George who I helped deliver. He was huge, and his mother was a first-timer and rejected him....
...Adapting George Orwell on the imperishability of donkeys, I can say I have never seen a dead bergenia. White-flowered Bressingham White is strong, spreading and free-flowering....
...Dark blue monkshoods, or aconitums, are flowering near it with red Penstemon King George, another near-casualty of last winter....
...In the National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, Dublin, plants of lacteus were raised from seed sent from Yunnan by its first collector, George Forrest....
...The actor may be hoping no one realises it’s him, having merely lent his voice to a C-3PO-type robot with flowers around his head....
...There was also something at the Chelsea Flower Show and an incident with orange confetti at George Osborne’s wedding....
...Ute Lemper’s UK tour begins on April 24 at Bristol St George’s. ‘Time Traveller’ is out now, utelemper.com...
...England is a shallow grave marked by dead flowers in a jar” (the omnipresence of a large, crudely painted flag of St George is a bit of a giveaway)....
...Expect Three Sheets’ bestselling twist on a Dirty Martini, and its signature French 75, a sparkling blend of Moscato, gin, lemon, verjus and orange flower water....
...Hong Kong Flower Show, Victoria Park The theme of this year’s show is “Floral Joy Around Town”, with the angelonia (Angel Flower) as the star bloom....
...the misery of those bleak years when a terminally ill Orwell, laboriously crafting Nineteen Eighty-Four on the remote Scottish island of Jura, diverted his journeys back to London so that he could place flowers...
...“I decided I’d do something which couldn’t be killed by freak weather so I began making things that looked like trees and plants and flowers,” says James in a 1978 film presented by George Melly, the English...
...The American artist incorporates materials such as flowers, straw and thread into her generally abstract work and, aged 83, has recently experienced a surge in public prices....
...The ceiling, in keeping with its Anglican history, still displays in intricate detail the four flowers of the UK’s nations. In the war-torn Puritan England of 1644, Christmas was officially banned....
...For inspiration, see the garden cabin designed by architectural salvage superstars Adam Hills and Maria Speake of Retrouvius for presenter George Lamb....
...My beauty gurus are the hairdressers at George Northwood. Whenever I am in London for a work thing, they literally have to comb brambles out of my hair, and never say anything about it....
...Flowers knows the story well — he was its majority investor before selling the company to UK-based buyout firm Cinven in 2017....
...You’ll be hard pressed to find anything similar in the city in terms of the selection of flowers they have and intricate arrangements they create....
...His pantry is stuffed with jars of fermented vegetables and flower syrups, including wild camomile, fireweed, meadowsweet and rosehip....
...So long as it is clipped regularly, its dark leaves and highly scented but discreet flowers make dense shapes with clean outlines....
...“It’s kind of like when you have a burnt forest and you start to see the flowers poke through,” he quotes one teacher saying....
...John Dauth, 76, a former press secretary for King Charles and Australian high commissioner to the UK, had set out his table with a plastic union flag cloth and bouquet of red, white and blue flowers....
...When Greater Manchester’s leaders were negotiating their trendsetting 2014 devolution deal with the government (in a “levelling up” enterprise dreamt up long before the term was coined), then-chancellor George...
...Additional reporting by George Parker in London and Adrienne Klasa in Paris...
...Its delicate paintings and pastel drawings, he says, “begin to look like flowers”. Brecht wrote that to speak of trees is almost a crime, a silence about injustice....
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