Hints and tips:
...Botanist scented candle, £225 Maison Pichon Uzès earthenware Louis XVI side plates, £186 for set of four, abask.com Roger Feraud 1950s wood and wrought-iron coat-hanger stand, €1,210, vntg.com Philips Iris...
...recommended by the Royal Horticultural Society to tolerate temporarily wet soil as well as dry include Sambucus nigra cultivars, Cornus sanguinea “Midwinter Fire”, Hydrangea “Annabelle”, Crocosmia “Lucifer”, Iris...
...Our guide, Greg Smith, an almost movingly enthusiastic man in a raincoat and one of the unfashionable kinds of bucket hat, made the move to Coll from Wivenhoe, Essex, three years ago....
...Their catalogue is published in March, with the bearded iris supplied during dormancy, spanning mid-June to the end of October. The choice, quality and value for money is impressive....
...Smith. “It’s my opinion that there was an acute intoxication with the heavy metals producing a seizure.”...
...It’s easy to see how Zadie Smith, writing for the New Yorker, finds in Taylor’s “restless” style a metaphor for black history, “the way many black people actually experience it: as simultaneous change and...
...Among them were Antonia White (Frost in May was the first of the series), Vera Brittain, Stevie Smith and Rosamond Lehmann....
...When John Smith calls us from London, I don’t know and don’t ask if he’s arriving with Barbara or with Brandon.” So said Leon Avigad, who co-founded Brown Hotels with his husband Nitzan Perry in 2010....
...From archaic statues of Dionysian revels to David Smith’s postwar steel abstractions inspired by choreographer Martha Graham, sculpture has always found in dance a strange alter ego....
...Enlarged to billboard scale on the Hayward’s exterior is a statuesque black-masked woman posed against a golden ground, staged like a fashion shot, from Lina Iris Viktor’s collage series “A Haven....
...As Katy Hayward and Tony Smith wrote this week for UK in a Changing Europe: “Although it may seem counter-intuitive, ‘taking back control of borders’ is necessarily an exercise in collaboration....
...The private equity group founded by US billionaire Robert Smith has agreed to sell a 50 per cent stake in a UK software company whose clients include British Gas, Virgin Atlantic and the NHS, for about £2bn...
...Things change when a mute seven-year-old girl, Iris (Caoilinn Springall), appears....
...Here I have three favourites: the sturdy blue Iris Lady Beatrix Stanley, the cheaper blue Iris Harmony and electric blue Ipheion Rolf Fiedler, which flowers in late March when 6in high....
...Iris Pang, greater China chief economist at ING, said export orders were important to ensure the nation’s factories kept busy in June....
...Iris Pang, chief China economist at ING, said Beijing might choose to delay a targeted cut to banks’ reserve requirement ratios, which could funnel more liquidity to businesses hit by the crisis....
...Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, told Moral Money that the Covid-19 crisis has made it clear that companies need to “solve more than one problem at a time”....
...Model Stella Tennant has taken the pledge and taken part in a shoot to promote the campaign, alongside Iris, her 16-year-old daughter. Will you join?...
...Next year, it will be an extraordinary contemporary garden designed by Stuart-Smith....
...My style icon is Iris Apfel. She shows that the older you are, the more fabulous you can look. Her bold clothing and jewellery make her a true individual....
...Other customers included actors Dudley Moore, Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams, who visited with his mother, novelists Frederick Forsyth, Iris Murdoch and the first female Booker winner Bernice Rubens,...
...Iris ‘Comme un Oeuf’ Iris grower Cayeux always create a captivating display at Chelsea and this year it has eight new bearded irises....
...Loosemore is relinquishing his chairmanship of IRIS Software Group to focus on his obligations at the troubled software company. More here....
...Just 13 out of 41 sectors saw profits improve month-to-month in October, leading ING's Iris Pang to call the squeeze among Chinese manufacturers "severe."...
...Although the IRI, which promotes democracy overseas, and the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think-tank, have ties to Republicans, both have been critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin, a sign...
International Edition