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...Many of those villas are steeped in pine gardens so thick you can’t see where one estate ends and the next begins....
...The random selection of hornbeam, cedar, Aleppo pines, hollies plus conifers so tatty I haven’t the enthusiasm to find out what they are, lack the collective charm of Walpole’s vision but their odd sizes...
...I like a garland made from fir or pine, and into this I’ll weave holly and ivy, maybe some eucalyptus....
...In the powder blue 1830s drawing room exhibit, holly was neatly tucked behind the gilt frames of modest paintings....
...Smith brings a new purpose to her family heirlooms every year, turning an inherited serving dish and cups into decorations by filling them with pine cones, lights and sprigs of ivy and holly....
...There are colourful orecchiette salads with basil, pine nuts and cherry tomatoes; sculptural heaps of spaghetti with meatballs on gleaming trays; chunks of roasted veal in skewers arranged artfully on the...
...Julia Donaldson’s The Christmas Pine (Alison Green Books, £12.99) began life as a poem commissioned to recognise Norway’s regular winter gift to the UK of a huge Christmas tree to stand in Trafalgar Square...
...I’ve seen pine branches hung above a dining table, which I very much like the idea of....
...For Holly Wade, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Business, this is just the latest way in which Amazon squeezes “mom and pop” employers....
...When I finally capitulate, as happened this Tuesday, it’s “a holly, jolly” bloody Christmas every day....
...How can I dress the table, beyond holly and pine cones? Well, holly is certainly an excellent start. Good greenery is the very foundation of Christmas decorating....
...Meanwhile, phytoncides (the organic compounds released by trees such as cedar, oak and pine, known as the “aroma of the forest”) were found to significantly boost immunity, while helping us relax....
...Boxwood, yew and holly were all used, as well as the firs and pines we now associate with Christmas....
...At the centre of the dining table, a candelabra is covered with pine branches, oranges and pears, dangling above a stuffed black swan: a feast of Christmas past....
...The Japanese developed a form of cloud pruning and applied it to to everything from azaleas to pine and Japanese holly....
...A cedar, hornbeam, hollies, thujas, 10m pines, 9m walnut and yews cast long shadows....
...with orange slices, pine cones and holly berries. libertylondon.com Reindeer Games set of 4 ceramic tidbit plates by Juliska, $88 A set of ceramic plates with red painted illustrations, perfect for pre-dinner...
...Holly Wreath Double Oven Gloves by Emma Bridgewater, £24.95 Holly wreaths, oranges and pine cones make for a festive design, which also appears on a matching tea towel. emmabridgewater.co.uk Copper Snowflake...
...Foliage such as blue pine and Scots pine scents the air and reminds me of the chilly outdoors while I am warming my toes beside the fire with glossy leaved holly and mistletoe berries glistening in candlelight...
...The holly bushes and cedar trees in his photograph are still there....
...In addition to oak, the wood hosts a scattering of rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) and much smaller numbers of eared willow (Salix aurita), hazel (Corylus avellana), hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) and holly (Ilex...
...Nobody was said to have brought flowers, holly or ivy to the first Christmas. Frankincense and myrrh are not hardy in an English December....
...Ralph Bowmaker, an interior designer and treasurer of the Pugin Society, lives in a mini gothic revival village in north London called Holly Village....
...It isn’t neat and symmetrical but lavish, ethereal and wild – holly, ivy and fir are dotted generously with hawthorn berries and crab apples....
...There are countless myths and legends as to why we place a pine tree in our home and hang wreaths on our doors during the winter season and it is impossible to nail most traditions to one story....
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