Hints and tips:
...A vermi-compost bed, it is fed by manure collected from his aunt Ann’s neighbouring alpacas, leftover cardboard and flower offcuts. “This stuff is amazing!”...
...When Ann Lowe showed up for her first day of fashion school in New York in 1917, she was already an accomplished designer....
...Bright orange poppies, California’s protected state flower, dotted the verges....
...And stop by the wall light installation of artist and designer Gunilla Zamboni of Gupica – the lights with brushed stainless steel petals appear as wall flowers....
...When I made a show garden with Ann-Marie Powell back in 2010 we had two people on leaf-polishing duty who would have passed out if they’d seen the state of some of Massey’s leaves....
...She won a gold medal at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show in 2016. I marvel at the agglutinated English of their book’s first two parts....
...At Old House Gardens, a specialist heritage-bulb supplier in Ann Arbor, Michigan, sales of favourite tulip varieties such as Columbine ($12.50) – a delicious swirl of raspberry pink and mauve – are limited...
...Thankfully, her writing is now being reintroduced to English-language readers with a new translation by Ann Goldstein of Forbidden Notebook....
...This velvety, bright orange indulgence is layered above a bed of pearl couscous, and topped with smoked paprika foam, Kaffir lime and mustard flowers to balance the richness....
...May 26; further information and tickets here RHS Chelsea Flower Show “Chelsea”, as it is simply known, is a fixture in the London social diary....
...The renowned biodynamic winemaker Julie-Ann Hoch was working in her vineyard in Kremstal, Austria, when she hit upon the idea for Pure Joy Botanicals....
...A lush close-up of ripening bananas, still on the tree, was painted in Jamaica in 1953, when he stayed at Goldeneye as a guest of Ian Fleming and his wife Ann....
...Ann C of Darwent=Waters.” Radclyffe’s wife Anna Maria, Countess of Derwentwater, took charge of her husband’s remains, including his severed head....
...All the same, she and the Queen were regular visitors to the Chelsea Flower Show....
...She’s speaking of her gloriously bizarre art films, which reveal enigmatic female figures in symbol-laden worlds morphing into animals, trees and flowers, floating in and out of painted and digital mediums...
...The exhibition includes “Nasturtiums with the Painting ‘Dance’ (I)” (1912), in which a table and vase of flowers straddle the two- and three-dimensional worlds....
...Jane Owen is an FT Weekend contributing editor and winner of a Chelsea Flower Show gold medal for a garden to raise awareness about indigenous people in sub-Saharan Africa, designed with Ann-Marie Powell...
...I like black Ann Demeulemeester, Dior and shoes by JM Weston. Adidas often does something fun too....
...Instead of flower-bearing locals, Russia faced a strong, freedom-loving nation that refused to surrender....
...That designer was Ann Lowe, the couturier who had also created Olivia de Havilland’s flower-painted 1947 Oscars gown....
...Carax makes the lineage clear in montage, Ann consumptive in La bohème, tormented in Madame Butterfly, her role in life to play tragic women....
...To the rear of the building are two gardens designed by the landscape gardener Ann-Marie Powell. The Wildlife Garden features a large pond and planting to attract beneficial garden fauna....
...Next on my list is Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, about a pair of siblings over the course of half a century who live in the shadow of their childhood home....
...As garden designer Ann-Marie Powell puts it, “Start thinking about what’s going to make you happy next year; do the jobs that please you because it will give you something to look forward to....
...Chelsea is not the oldest flower show on earth (that credit goes to the Philadelphia Flower Show in the US)....
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