Hints and tips:
...At Alubali, an old-town restaurant, the courtyard is lined with jasmine, orange, lemon and pomegranate trees; there’s a wood- burning stove for winter....
.... €75, astierdevillatte.com DS & DURGA Big Sur After Rain What does Big Sur, central California’s mountainous section of misty coastline, smell like after a thunderstorm?...
...Villa Medicis is a favourite for summer: I love its Mediterranean feeling — all lemon leaves, oregano and lavender....
...It has beautiful tea terraces on misty mountains that have been there for thousands of years. There are bamboo forests and the green on green everywhere is so beautiful....
...As late as early July, their show co-ordinator, Martyn Flint, gave me a rooted cutting of one of their winners, Misty Lemon, promising that it was not too late in the year to see it at its best....
...It is a cold and misty November morning in the Lake District, and I am standing in a 17th-century farmhouse in a low-beamed room in front of what looks like a medieval instrument of torture....
...We walked in his garden through a lemon grove, passing palms shrouded to protect them against the cold....
...Distilling primrose yellows, leaf greens and misty blues and greys to a watery translucence, he never compromised his faith in the power of colour....
...my father’s 12 siblings were still stuck in the East End and when we went to see them it was like a trip to some sort of mournful immigrant antiquity: their dreaded sponge cake, and the tall glasses of lemon...
...Incurving Misty Lemon is just what I always dream of bagging at a flower show. There are dozens of matching Mistys waiting there for you to pounce on through the website....
...Looking back along the coast, you no longer see the ugliness, just range after range of misty mountains and capes, made more magical by the heat haze....
...Its wide, flat single flowers of a good orange-yellow fade to lemon yellow at their tips and are held on strong 2ft-high stems. It is an invaluable new arrival....
...I always ask myself what their misty photographs of harebells or rudbeckias will look like if retaken when the flowers are over. The answer, to my eye, is an ugly mess....
...In “Early Spring/High Water”, a frozen stretch of water beginning to melt flows out of a misty hinterland of light and shadow, fringed with ice-coated reeds, each delineated with photo-realist precision....
...When the city stands too squarely for decline, I tend to lose patience: it’s hard to feel misty-eyed for a place that, whatever its misfortunes, still has something Los Angeles lacks: a professional NFL...
...His recipe for grilling pheasants over fruit tree prunings in a misty, late autumn garden encapsulates his romantic side....
...After a long winter, plants such as lemon-flowered varieties of anthemis tend to have died away in the centre, leaving a few healthy shoots on their perimeter....
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