Hints and tips:
...As I divided my blue-leaved hostas this week, I paid mental tribute to their Odesan kin. Hosta tardiana Halcyon is a free-flowering blue and white and is a first-class choice for pots in semi-shade....
...But its walkways, cycle paths and car lanes are empty; concrete slabs and international peacekeepers block most traffic....
...figures US, Federal Open Market Committee minutes from its last rate-setting meeting US, September producer price index (PPI) inflation figures Results: Barratt Developments trading update, Ikea FY, Kin...
...Genetic studies based on DNA have begun to reorder plant genera, lumping unexpected kin together. Should a physic garden be dug up and rearranged?...
...Pointing to the biodiverse brainpower who were eating at the same table, he told me that we shared a common ancestor and were all related as kin....
...The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich Allen Lane, £20, 680 pages James Crabtree is author of ‘The Billionaire Raj’...
...Wondrously, magnolias and their kin have appeared on earth, pre-glacial beauties that put a dinosaur to shame....
...Kin + Deum 2 Crucifix Lane, London SE1 3JW; 020 7357 7995; kindeum.com Dinner for two with a cocktail each £65 If you are a subscriber and would like to receive alerts when Nicholas’s articles are published...
...With no next of kin, the final scene is May’s funeral at the high point of the cemetery, attended only by the ghosts of his former cases....
...JD Taylor, who is 27 and has “no Oxbridge credentials and well-connected kin”, has written an account of the four months last summer he spent exploring Britain....
...The first came at an unprepossessing site in San Francisco, where Pim Techamuanvivit’s Kin Khao serves what I think is the most authentic Thai food outside Thailand....
...nicholas.lander@ft.com Kin Khao 55 Cyril Magnin Street, San Francisco; +1 415 362 7456; kinkhao.com Manresa 320 Village Lane, Los Gatos; +1 408 354 4330; manresarestaurant.com Tasting menu US$198 per...
...After a few years he had made enough money to open a cafe on Drury Lane in the early 1970s, when Covent Garden was still a wholesale market....
...Bred by Bill Radler, its kin have become bestsellers, totalling nearly 12m plants at the till in the past eight years. Knock Out is certainly disease-proof but are its flowers sufficiently refined?...
...Never accept an unnamed autumn-flowering helianthus as they are all kin to the rampant Jerusalem artichoke whose tubers are so hard to eradicate....
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