Hints and tips:
...On impulse I added their Marigold Colossus (French), a long-flowering variety, bi-coloured in red and orange and “the largest French marigold,” with flowers “larger than a golf ball”....
...My two most accelerated surprises are calendulas, or orange pot marigolds, in flower three months early beside London’s Little Venice canal, and rounded heads of scented white flower on Viburnum burkwoodii...
...Later this month, amidst the transportive gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show, there will be an altogether different proposition – a garden designed by children, for children....
...“Marigolds were my grandfather’s favourite flowers, and after he died, I used to plant the seeds he gave me on my balcony every year for 20 years,” she says....
...Petersham Nurseries sells an edible flower seed collection including cornflowers, marigolds and heartsease (£15, in store only)....
...A flower of mourning, its potent colour often symbolises death and love lost....
...So are French marigolds and fuchsias. Salvias are having a third rush of flowers. There are roses, not just on long-flowering China roses....
...Armed Taliban opponents threatened outside, but Shaista diverted water to his flowers and vegetables, sowing marigolds and other annuals, spinach, spring onions and okra....
...Alongside the cabinet, Laposse has crafted a 40m-long narrative tapestry — dyed using natural pigments from avocado pits and marigold flowers — that depicts the story of what happened in Cherán, as well...
...Light pink dahlias cost about 80p each, individually potted and in flower, and double marigolds, likewise, cost 25p each....
...In Pakistan I have been admiring dahlias and marigolds in flower under cloudless blue skies. In Britain there has been frost on the lawn and cloud: dahlias are a distant prospect....
...Set to be the largest exhibition ever staged at the palace, the show juxtaposes late 17th- and 18th-century pieces, including a white silk brocade mantua embroidered with flowers from the early 1750s and...
...Scores of men are bathing in their underwear, while volunteers and priests hang garlands of marigolds and light oil lamps for prayers....
...The show week was followed by perfect bedding weather, a chance to plant dahlias and mix in summer’s essential cosmos, daisies, marigolds and zinnias....
...And Susanne Kaufmann’s Marigold Body Oil (£30) has a scent so pretty you won’t want to add perfume....
...It was Smith who introduced me to the weed-killing Mexican marigold Tagetes minuta, also sharing his recipes for homemade plant stimulants, repellents and sprays....
...So are calendulas, the pot marigolds. Do not bury the seed deeply: if you have a rake, use it to make a shallow drill and then to rake the soil back over it to cover it....
...I will not, however, pay £12.99 for a mere five plugs, jumbo or not, of a calendula, or pot marigold, called Power Daisy....
...My prize marigolds are an Afro-French cross, Konstance, which was still smothered in red-orange double flowers on November 9. The crowning glories have been dahlias....
...There are also flowers on half-hardy French marigolds. I never remember a Christmas week like this one. What might gardeners like for Christmas Day?...
...Think Basteeya at Aziza (chicken confit, spiced almond, caramelised onion and sultana raisins) or halibut with squash, vadouvan, sultana, lobster curry and marigold at Mourad. mouradsf.com Nomad, Sydney...
...Then in his poem to Fancy itself, he urges us to conjure up the flowers of other seasons at one and the same moment, daisies, marigolds, primroses and hyacinths, the “sapphire queen of the mid-May”....
...Built in 1844, Berrima Vault House has been restored by a team of culinary and hospitality consultants led by sometime Soho House Group creative director, Dan Flower; Ali Hillman, who oversaw Paul Allen’...
...In a particularly visually arresting example, a profusion of daisies and marigolds will pop up at one of New York’s construction sites....
...I had superb marigolds, Tagetes Konstanz to the fore, and excellent antirrhinums. On dry soil the sweet peas were poor and in a single night slugs ate too many of my young tobacco plants....
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