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...Wend your way through illuminations around Kew Gardens, with botanical displays lit up by reflections and flames, and a light-show finale....
...In Florence I admired a different type of oak, the cork oak in its botanical garden....
...The Prado was first designed to be a cabinet of natural history, an extension of the botanical gardens nearby....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...By 2018, he had shifted his emphasis from fashion, staging an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery about the immigrant experience....
...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...The Warrior’s favourite place to source his peacoats is Peter Jones, obvs, but he’s partial to an occasional deep dive into an army surplus store now and then, too....
...suit stencilled with bluebells, botanical-print shirts layered over stiff canvas trousers and shorts, and a full-sleeved blouse under an apron-like black dress....
...I can’t seem to stop buying these design classics – my garage is getting too small and I’ve had to resort to putting a tent in the garden to keep the boat in, which my wife is hating me for....
...This pristine 20-hectare botanical garden — replete with a music venue, conference space, places to eat and its own mini railway — is sandwiched between two of Frankfurt’s most elegant districts, Westend...
...That included some midsized venues — such as Cardiff’s TramShed and The Mill in Birmingham — alongside nightclub brand Propaganda....
...For 20 years, Jones worked in marketing, taking up gardening only 11 years ago at the Physic Garden itself....
...When curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum visited, they selected, along with five other pieces, a miniature replica of the bed made for cats that will go into the collection of V&A East, which opens...
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...“At Ity, they’ve created market gardens that employ about 1,000 people, and things like that are sustainable.”...
...Patrick Glynn-Jones, head of Strutt & Parker’s Winchester office, says that a five- bedroom detached house came up in the summer and sold for about £1.5m....
...Why Access to restaurants, shops and Sheffield Botanical Gardens....
...The prime minister, who addressed the Irishman as “Mr de Valer-era”, was inclined to make asides in Welsh to his secretary, Tom Jones, to which Dev (his name to most of Ireland) responded by speaking Irish...
...”, “Limestone Wall”); palms overhanging concrete remnants, dwarfing tiny figures (“Grace Jones”); new hotels shooting up, bright cubes on cobalt skies (“Higher Heights”)....
...Climate-change sceptics are refuted by the markedly reduced season for snow in the high European mountains, where records have been kept by botanical gardens for nearly a century....
...Levete predicts that future offices will house more diverse, engaging spaces leading onto a terrace or garden where people can be more sociable....
...What really makes it stand out is the setting, a floor-to-ceiling glass window looks out on to the city’s Palmengarten, Frankfurt’s botanical gardens....
...Getting out of the studio and into nature is an important part of my work process, and when I’m in Lisbon, I go to the botanical gardens....
...The best souvenir I’ve brought home recently is Himbrimi, an Icelandic amber gin with great botanicals – it’s beautiful....
...Gye also owned Vauxhall Gardens in London, albeit after Canaletto’s 1751 painting of the gardens, which hangs here alongside his picture of the rotunda at the city’s Ranelagh Gardens....
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