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...Grown on vigorous rootstocks and planted at low densities, orchards benefit from an understorey of grassland or meadow....
...Why Nearly 22 acres of grounds include a tennis court, a stable yard, an arboretum, a duck pond, various gardens, woods, a summer house and an orchard....
...We see the virtuoso at leisure, painting meadows and gardens in total freedom....
...The grounds include a walled garden, meadow, lake, tennis court and moat — plus a second world war air-raid shelter....
...In last year’s late frosts Wisley’s gardeners lit fires at night, like vineyard owners in France or the orchard farmers in Chekhov’s great short story “The Black Monk”: the Wisley gardeners too wanted to...
...What A four-bedroom, two-bathroom house set on 12 acres of meadow and woodland, with outbuildings that provide additional accommodation space....
...Apple orchards replace vineyards in this temperate northern region and, though a small wine industry exists, the region’s drink of choice is cider....
...Inbox: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Stoner Cats 2 LLC (SC2) with conducting an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities in the form of purported non-fungible tokens (NFTs...
...In among the primroses, narcissi, cow parsley and fruit trees in the meadow there’s a fair bit of grass that needs nimble mowing....
...You haven’t lived until you’ve had a sunset nostril wax in an orchard. The crew are masters of understatement....
...Today, many architects are creating wild flower meadows on tops of buildings. One example is Ashraya, another RIBA Award-winning house, located in a rural village in Hertfordshire....
...The Trie Cloister is planted with a flowering meadow in summer that’s reminiscent of a tapestry brimming with bright colours and dancing with beneficial insects....
...It’s set in lovely grounds with orchards, meadows, a pond and a pool. You can cook for yourself or Tom will cook for you. And he hires out bikes as well, which is a great way to explore Burgundy....
...This is a pleasant valley of meadows, pastures and dinky Swiss villages....
...and meat from craft butcher Gerard King of Salter & King, who works with farms to produce slow-grown meat that’s totally unique to the area, such as the grass-fed Lincoln Red cattle that graze on lush meadows...
...Howard and Hugh Miller’s Alder Hey Urban Foraging Station is a stylised riff on orchards and meadows filled with cow parsley, wild carrot and meadow buttercups among edible herbs....
...At Roots in the Sky, office floors will be topped by a community terrace with an orchard, a productive growing space, a meadow and a small forest....
...Its botanical skin product range, Bertioli, is also inspired by what grows in the water meadows lying just beyond the blackcurrant canes....
...“Landscape near Pontoise” is a natural harmony: bands of grey-blue sky, muted yellow meadow, green foreground with haycart, rickety fence and a path inviting us to amble into the painting....
...Putting mind, body and spirit in balance underpins the Thyme ethos; it’s why there is not just the eight-suite Meadow Spa, but also the gardens and orchards, the long woodland walks, the courses in flower...
...Five years ago, in his mid-forties, he gave up a career in TV production and bought a farmhouse near where he grew up in Brittany, with four hectares of meadow sloping down to a trout stream....
...As we drove along avenues of poplars, rolling meadows full of poppies flanked apple, mulberry, apricot and almond orchards....
...“In that peak, when the meadows are flourishing, everything is reaching for the solstice, and you can feel the energy pouring from it....
...Under well-chosen flowering crab trees there are drifts of blue-flowered camassias, much as in an enlightened orchard in Sussex. In 2008 alone, 35,000 plants were needed for the meadow....
...Thirty years in cask has built up a very distinguished patina of flavour, but Rosebank’s signature elegant notes of orchard fruit and meadow flowers still shine through. €2,300, worldwinewhisky.com, or join...
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