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...Van Gogh also describes two paintings of Gachet’s garden, one with cypresses and aloes, which I cannot grow in mine, the other with “white roses, vines and a white figure in it”....
...Robin Lane Fox travelled as a guest of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on X or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...Interesting, topical article on lessons on Mediterranean planting by Robin Lane Fox (House & Home, July 29)....
...Prune them off too, keeping in mind the image of a well-pruned or spurred vine in a vineyard, cut back to its hard older growth and checked from becoming too green and sprawly....
...What used to be a two-lane highway is now a freeway with a constant, noisy stream of commuters doing their best to get somewhere with more somewhereness than these housing tracts....
...In the winding lanes of the citadel, I came upon St Mary’s Church, now a museum of the paintings of Onufri, one of the great 16th-century icon painters....
...This is why a narrow lane outside that flagship store sees a line of tents every freezing February for up to four weeks as wine lovers, or perhaps opportunists, queue up in anticipation of the annual arrival...
...Even the once dazzling yellows, blues and reds on the flower-and-vine detailing on gate catches, chairs and pillars had faded or been washed away by rain....
...Lee, whose recent collection Gnostic Vines draws from another faith by featuring elements from Kabbalah, is interested in different cultures....
...“Hawkhurst’s Water Lane restaurant and kitchen garden is a favourite, The Cloudberry restaurant in Cranbrook another.”...
...At its height, up to 40,000 visitors crowded the village’s cobbled narrow lanes, people told me either in awe or horror....
...The traps couldn’t keep up thanks to several 7-metre box-caterpillar-infested box trees in the lane beside our garden....
...It was a trip down memory lane for Smith, who, in 1991, had been sent to exactly the same place for training, when it was an Oddbins....
...of Garnacha vines is relatively high....
...This relationship with Russia, with the unwitting assistance of global warming, is helping extend China’s BRI through Arctic shipping lanes....
...Wildman is stressing old vines because they are increasingly valued in the wine world....
...They grew “vines, fruits, herbs and flowers so glistening and so well kept that I have not seen anything more fruitful or elegant anywhere else”, More wrote....
...I found the entrance off to the left of the Ma-10, a country lane winding down through groves of ancient olives to a grand old Mallorcan mansion sitting prettily above its own gently curving bay....
...Several miles further south-east, in a less-trod part of the island, is Poderi Crisci – a bit of a drive down a bumpy, semi-paved lane, but if you’ve come all this way already, trust me, just commit....
...On sunny walls, facing west or south, town gardeners, especially in warm London, should grow the white climbing potato vine, Solanum jasminoides album, and on high walls, some mimosa, Acacia baileyana, as...
...I will treasure the sight of pink nerines among red and white-flowered Salvia Hot Lips, below the climbing white potato vine, Solanum jasminoides album....
...Low, undulating countryside unfurls in every direction, covered in quilts of alternating vineyard and woodland stitched together by meandering two-lane roads....
...Hidden behind a façade of Victorian shopfronts on one of Spitalfields’s labyrinthine lanes, their home is a 6,000sq ft urban wonderland that seduces with sensorial charm and bizarre mystique....
...The Company keeps it in bottles, not on vines in their garden. It puts such a shine on a twice-jabbed consumer’s day. In my personal herbal, it is the best City treatment for pro-lunch wimps....
...In claret country, desperate owners of vineyards have resorted to night-time fires as a defence against ruin of their vines’ flowers....
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