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...Coton Manor’s main garden covers 6 acres with a wild-flower meadow on 3 more and a superb bluebell wood on another 6....
...Individual flowers have been bigger than usual, not just on modern varieties such as Gertrude Jekyll but on older ones too, including the pink Ispahan, once-flowering but finely scented, whose origins go...
...The deep rose-pink, heavily petalled and scented Gertrude Jekyll is an obvious choice, as I am tired of too much pale pink where my Felicia once stood....
...Le Balzar is one of Paris’s great Art Deco brasseries with leather banquettes and globe lights, wood and mirror-lined walls, tables of linen and silverware, framed paintings that might well date from the...
...Rosa Sissinghurst Castle, Queen of Sweden, Jacqueline du Pré, Gertrude Jekyll and Munstead Wood all embody fascinating women and the places that were special to them....
...There is something of the London club in its armchairs, warm wood and folded newspapers....
...Reclaimed wood. And an expansive terrace like the overhang on a multistorey car park. At night, the scene is beautifully lit and bewitching....
...Responding to a coastal bombing, Gertrude Hermes’ magisterial, enigmatic “The Warrior’s Tomb” (1941) appears at first glance like an abstraction, but actually records a view of the ocean when a submarine...
...Also, not quite a robot, but Gertrude the pig was the shy star of the sty at Elon Musk’s unveiling of the latest brain implant from his Neuralink start-up....
...Entitled “Caution”, this 1990s mixed-media collage on wood — which features an appropriated print of the painter at its centre — is by the Atlanta-based artist-musician Lonnie Holley, who, much like Van...
...In Spring one of these sections, expressing the secret desires of social-media companies, is like Gertrude Stein rewritten by Twitter — “Now what we don’t want is Facts. What we want is bewilderment....
...Munstead Wood is not at the forefront of Austin’s current list, but I find it excellent, even in dry soil. Bred in 2007, it too has a heavy scent....
...Built by Lord Frederic Eden in 1884, it was influenced by the renowned landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll, his sister-in-law....
...“Brack, Brack, is the one who put up the hooks and held the things up and ate his dinner,” sniped Picasso’s acolyte Gertrude Stein....
...In a companion bed I have chosen Gertrude Jekyll for its excellent shape and deep pink colour as well as its taller height which stands up well among border plants....
...Pink-flowered St Swithun, deeper pink Gertrude Jekyll and yellow The Pilgrim are three of the best for the job. There is no peace with wild life, except in golden age prophecies....
...Lutyens grew up in the Surrey Hills and built Munstead Wood, just outside Godalming, for the landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll....
...Like Yorkshire’s answer to Gertrude Stein, whose Paris salon featured many of the foremost artists and writers of the early 20th century, Waterman’s home has for 50 years hosted Britain’s foremost cultural...
...Why The house was built in the early 1900s by British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, whom the owner had met through renowned horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll....
...The central gimmick, however, is that the novel is narrated from inside the Gertrude-figure’s womb by her nearly due and highly loquacious son....
...Then — when Gertrude Stein agreed to sell — the massive compacted “Trois Femmes”, heads, torsos, limbs reduced to mandala forms as if bodies have turned to stone....
...The best gift I’ve given recently was a first edition of Gertrude Stein’s What Are Masterpieces?....
...“Wood End has some of the best examples of Lutyens features,” says de Mallet Morgan....
...Anna Clyne’s Secret Garden had Currie, solo on pounding drums, overlaying a recording of a fragment of text that was chopped up, repeated, inverted, as though William Burroughs had taken Gertrude Stein for...
...Meanwhile, lists of plants to be sent to the Upton garden were drawn up for Jekyll’s nursery at her Surrey home, Munstead Wood. They survive and clarify several points....
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