Hints and tips:
...She transformed her mother-in-law’s main border, backed by a holly hedge, when she found a superb pale pink dahlia called Allan Sparkes, which now gives repeated colour, carrying other tones with it....
...In the week before Christmas my favourite varieties were far more heavily berried than old bushes of holly. I used them indoors in winter arrangements where the berries last well....
...Unless the sequel is a drought all summer, give me more of it, an extension of the flowery season and a cheering alternative to good old holly and ivy....
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...At East Ruston, a pink-flowered Albertine rose, a few holly trees and some big yellow-flowered lupins were the main features, apart from tufted grass and ground elder....
...Other choices in other research categories are less persuasive: is a holly tree really one of the best choices for a small garden? It has berries for birds but so do maluses and sorbuses....
...Joseph Ryan and his partner Holly Murdoch run The Seadog in Hastings, a charming beer-lovers pub in the centre of town that opened in early 2022....
...On May 5th 2020, a couple named Val and Holly Johnson officially make a decision that has been stewing for months....
...He’s 61 years old, and he and his wife, Holly, say that Val’s use of Johnson’s baby powder led to his diagnosis of mesothelioma....
...Their English name has nothing to do with prickly holly or horses’ lower legs. It derives from “holy” and “hock”, a Middle English word that meant mallow....
...Cotoneaster bullatus is aptly known in America as hollyberry, a semi-evergreen variety that has bright round red berries just like a holly’s. I love it....
...They will be major items for cutting and bringing indoors instead of yet more holly at Christmas. Here too a newish one is worth giving, either Mahonia ‘Soft Caress’ or Mahonia ‘Sweet Winter’....
...Then he goes on to condemn the friendship between hero Holly Martins and Harry Lime — the film’s sustaining premise — as “buggery, boys. Just buggery.”...
...Hollywood spent an estimated $120bn on original programming last year, with Disney alone splashing out $28bn to build a content war chest for its planned Netflix-killer, Disney+....
...Holly (Ilex aquifolium): slow-growing. Uncomfortable to maintain....
...This must be the work of the large dog fox who strides around the garden staring at us while we have supper. Anyone who has a soft spot for foxes should try keeping hens....
...There is much more to this Christmas than holly and ivy. The weather has been so mild in early December that gardeners are spoiled for choice....
...NH materialises, ashen-faced: “Why did you tell them to take down the holly?” This is (was) a weeping holly that framed the house and screened us from the lane....
...From a long table, looking down the main view, I admired the Gamnas’ bowls of the pink dahlia, Holly Hill, an excellent tall variety now forgotten in England....
...I even have some holly and uninvited ivy, said to be beloved by holly blues....
...Branches of prickly holly are a reader’s tip as an anti-brock defence, but my branches blew around in stormy December and the leaves were a pain to me too....
...Robin Lane Fox will be speaking at the FT Weekend Festival, September 8, at Kenwood House, London....
...They were still recalled as “fabulous” by his transgender superstar, Holly Woodlawn, before she died in December 2015....
...Todd Forrest, head of outdoor horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, confirms to me that the low evergreen holly, Ilex crenata, is widely recommended as a substitute in New York state....
...There is not a berry to be seen on my holly bushes. In some years they are prolific, in others not, so I will be relying on skimmias and red-berried cotoneasters instead....
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