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...The ritual in which the oil will be used has its roots in the biblical world chronicled in the Old Testament, when Solomon was anointed king by Zadok the Priest....
...Italian gardens lie at the root of grand historic gardens in Europe....
...He hired his friend Alfred Parsons to lay the paths, borders and vegetable garden, where apricot, plum, pear and apple trees took root....
...Roots has three golden rules for its 1,000-plus members. First, no dig — you have to replenish the soil. Then, no chemicals, including synthetic fertilisers and all the usual “-cides”....
...‘Every house needs a hook’ Zucchini (courgette) Sculptor Grace Sachi Troxell, based in New York, made a ceramic vegetable with a golden hook for a stem Twisted dry root California-based Saif Azzuz added...
...Trees in a Roman Park” (1876)....
...As we talked, the roots of the tightly spaced trees were being precisely hydrated. Even this sophisticated operation is under inexorable pressure....
...“Often in the process of adding significant scale the goose that has laid some golden eggs tends to be starved of the oxygen it needs . . . but it’s still a good brand....
...Some hold great hunks of meat and poultry; others are filled with smaller slices, cubes and kernels, the various shapes of root vegetables, tubers, terrines and dumplings....
...Autumn into winter is the best time to plant shrubs and trees, including bare-root, while the soil is still warm and there is increased rainfall....
...It is a magnificent specimen – but it’s still a youngster by the standards of the Domaine, which has monastic roots going at least as far back as the 14th century....
...Then an insurance company decided the tree’s roots were undermining the foundations of a nearby house....
...The bankside foliage started to change, the palms giving way to mangroves, where red-capped mangabeys used the root systems like climbing frames....
...In early Christians’ visions the trees in Paradise seemed to be blossoming and bearing fruit eternally, a tree for each month, all bearing fruit at once....
...The hottest deal of the summer: loan portfolios Back in April, Blackstone president Jonathan Gray heralded a “golden moment” for private credit as US regional banks pulled back on lending....
...Its roots trace to 1980, when early private equity investors Stanley Golder and Carl Thoma left First Chicago, a loose predecessor to the modern-day JPMorgan, to start their own buyout firm, Golder Thoma...
...The air is thick with the scent of blossom: the fruit of his thousands of trees is glowing like green, yellow and golden baubles among the dark foliage....
...To one side, beneath the trees, women laid out their roots and spices, spells and potions....
...This fleshy, spiky-leaved succulent was the only fast-growing desert plant able to cope with the climate and terrain and provide root systems to retain soil and water and act as a barrier against the wind...
...The plants absorb moisture from clouds, then pass it through their roots into the soil, thus creating subterranean water deposits and lakes, making the land so fertile and biodiverse that scientists consider...
...Beyond Midnight will even grow well as a ground covering under tall trees. All are extremely easy to root from cuttings, even if taken as late as this weekend....
...Not to settle into some golden age retirement, mind you. But to begin the next chapter — although she won’t say what that is....
...A friend had laid down the challenge on Instagram with a golden view of a Tuscan cornfield. Here was one that trumped hers....
...The early decades of the last century were a golden age of housebuilding....
...“Banana trees are not going to produce cherries,” they added....
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