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...In a warming world it will have an important agricultural future, but it looks too brown and dreary for my garden’s main sightline....
...In cities the damage has been less: in my daughter’s warm London garden the myrtles are enviably alive. In my cold country acres, forget myrtles. The death toll has been its highest ever....
...Bero’s version is spiced with natural ginger and native pepperberries redolent of Sichuan pepper and cloves, balanced by a lemon myrtle labneh....
...Some menu favourites include the potted shrimp croquettes, sea trout tartare (served with a punchy Bloody Mary jelly) and brown crab pissaladière (a smearing of brown crabmeat dotted with a herb aioli on...
...One appears in the form of a brown paper bag filled with her delicious soda-and-treacle bread alongside a pat of freshly churned butter on a small piece of marble....
...Soft rain on the cheek, the waft of bog myrtle in the air – the senses awaken to the elements, so that to be truly present here is almost unavoidable....
...Buly 1803’s fragrant rocks — which resemble lumps of sugar you might put in tea — come bagged in little brown paper envelopes decorated with hand-calligraphed stickers....
...It was created by the matriarchs of the Allen clan: the late, legendary Myrtle established the restaurant and hotel at the big house, and her daughter-in-law Darina runs the cookery school down the road,...
...a counter, a man called Alex Williams and the Hurdle Creek Still: it turns out Alex’s family make gin for some of Melbourne’s smartest bars, using botanicals foraged from their property including lemon myrtle...
...Curator Bastian Eclercy explores how Arcadian verse influenced voluptuous Renaissance nudes in verdant landscapes: the goddess outstretched on a pink cloth under a myrtle tree in Paris Bordone’s “Venus and...
...It’s the smoked salmon on brown soda bread that you order as your pint of stout settles on the bar....
...Currently there’s little sign of a gin trail en route; instead, dozens of brown tourist signs instruct me to turn off for whisky distilleries....
...Heathers can run out of steam after just a few years, even with regeneration pruning, becoming leggy, dusty masses of brown twigs topped with the odd tassel of foliage....
...“We had been at the Alhambra,” Helen explains, “and I had the idea of a similar central canal to the one in the palace’s Court of Myrtles.”...
...They are inspired by the brown cookies of Myrtle Allen of Ballymaloe in Ireland, but I have added more wholemeal and made them a little less sweet....
...Driving at 30kph, we pass many of the 40 apple varieties growing in the 150 acres of orchard, including Chisel Jersey and Brown Snout....
...The scent fuses those plant essences with indigenous flora such as myrtle and vetivert. The dinner guests were then sprung forward five centuries....
...Connolly, followed by his dog Bindi, an orange and white cocker spaniel with a bindi-like brown smudge on her forehead, leads the way....
...It seems to have been common practice in the south and Myrtle noted that they were used as far north as Tipperary....
...Together, brother, sister and pony are enriching the “deep brown earth”. www.botanicgardens.ie...
...When you pull out of Myrtle Grove, a boat landing 40km miles south of New Orleans, it is hard to believe the BP oil spill ever happened....
...The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, by Beryl Bainbridge, Little, Brown, RRP£16.99, 208 pages Beryl Bainbridge struggled to write this, her final novel. She died last July before completing it....
...The first thing we spotted was a roe deer with her fawn, a dark brown infant with a white scut that flagged their retreat into the trees....
...The poplar hawk looks remarkably like a crisp, dried-out poplar leaf, grey-brown and with a strange “back-to-front” appearance with the smaller hindwings pushed forward where you’d expect to see the large...
...On the valley floor, a fragrant and complex ground cover flourishes: bog myrtle, bog asphodel, juniper, creeping azalea and dwarf pine trees only a few inches in height....
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