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...Pierre Hardy leather 400 boots, €795. Necklace, Samer’s own. Emily wears Bottega Veneta shearling coat, £18,000, and denim-printed leather skirt, £3,290. Miu Miu cotton tops, £690 and £580....
...With his background in classical Greek and Latin studies and chemistry, Marco Panconesi gives his pieces in 18k gold, crystals, semi-precious stones and pearls a molecular, interstellar look....
...In my fridge you’ll always find cold beers – sometimes from local breweries such as Hattie Brown’s or Cerne Abbas....
...There’s a tartare of lamb flavoured with nectar from the cabuya cactus and crunchy kañiwa, a quinoa-like grain so hardy it’s able to germinate at five degrees celsius....
...It was she who suggested in the late 1950s that Hardy Amies, who was to be her dressmaker for more than three decades, move away from pastels into punchier hues as she matured in her role....
...About 30 years ago Choisya Aztec Pearl came along, a more elegant shrub with thinner and finer leaves and finely cut little white flowers....
...Otherwise, try choisya Aztec Pearl, one with delicate flowers and also a repeating season. Choisyas used to be called semi-hardy but in London especially they are now quite safe....
...Giovanni Raspini silver and pearl Anemone ring, £170....
...The skirt suits and pearls of Margaret Thatcher in the ’80s, for example, or Angela Merkel’s use of vibrant, solid colours took more than a leaf out of the Queen’s style book....
...Pearl Mirato is a paler and softer shade of pink and so I prefer it....
...Omnēque’s finds include a gorgeously plump ruby diamond ring (£655,000) and a conch-pearl necklace (£280,000). But there are plenty of treasures available to buy directly from the website....
...He grew them very well in Jersey, he told me, but was wary of many of them, except for the hardy Headbourne hybrids, as they were unsafe in British winters....
...Similarly to Hardy, Roxy Mankoo launched April’s Baker on the back of a diploma in art and design....
...My personal favourites do not persist in grass, the heavenly Blue Pearl and its pair, Cream Beauty, and the charming etruscus from the Maremma region of west Tuscany....
...I lost supposedly hardy varieties of chrysanthemums and most of the half-hardy salvias....
...Lake’s words open each of the first two books of Ellroy’s second LA Quartet — a prequel that opens with Perfidia, which is set against the backdrop of Pearl Harbor....
...Read Hattie Garlick’s “A Year in Chicken Soup” plus see the full recipes on Talking of Food, talkingoffood.com/tags/Comfort food|Hattie Garlick.html Illustration by Aart-Jan Venema...
...Joanna Hardy has a deeper insight into the demand....
...You could never have had hardy hippeastrums or Pearl lilies which will flower for a month. Gardening is getting better, so get on with it. Photographs: De Jager; Chris Burrows/Getty Images...
...Crocuses have to include the exquisite duo, Cream Beauty and Blue Pearl, perhaps my favourite flowers....
...Two are exceptionally valuable and have proved hardy for the past 15 years....
...In summer and autumn, there are some of the usual suspects: purple-blue salvias, asters, phloxes and hardy geraniums....
...Most of these hardy ones flower in September and all of them are superb when cut and brought indoors....
...We got lost on the misty, twilit highlands and developed an admiration for the hardy bairns who tramped over them to the schoolhouse and back in all weathers....
...Thirty years ago they were often classed as marginally hardy....
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