Hints and tips:
...The major suppliers on display include Thompson & Morgan, Johnsons and Mr Fothergills, but each has much fuller catalogues online....
...Thompson and Morgan (thompson-morgan.com) leads the field and now owns Suttons (suttons.co.uk) and Dobies (dobies.co.uk). Suttons and Dobies still maintain separate lists and are worth tracking too....
...Two of the best sources of pre-germinated bedding plants are Suttons (suttons.co.uk) and Thompson & Morgan (thompson-morgan.com)....
...Sarah Raven offers it too, at £2.95 for 20 seeds, via sarahraven.com. So do Thompson and Morgan, assuring us that the plants are “all female”....
...The species to buy is Phacelia campanularia, available from Johnsons Seeds with Sarah Raven on the packet to cheer you on....
...Usual reader favourites Chiltern Seeds, Sarah Raven, Mr Fothergill’s and Plant World all announced interruptions within a week of the start of lockdown....
...Sarah Raven, apostle of cut flowers, has a sharp eye for a good annual and a keen marketing sense, in evidence at sarahraven.com....
...Rabenmutter, or “raven mother”, is a derogatory term for anyone deemed a neglectful mother in Germany....
...“The biggest disrupter of deals at the top of the market has been a lack of paperwork,” says Edward de Mallet Morgan, an agent at Knight Frank....
...The fund management group has resisted calls to cut fees from Nicky Morgan MP, the head of the influential Treasury select committee....
...“When I looked at her life and the times she lived in, it jumped out at me,” says Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, writer of Emilia, which opens next week....
...Even now in June, it is worth checking out the bedding on the Thompson & Morgan website....
...One investor who is short Tesla, Christopher Irons of Quoth the Raven Research, said he was willing to lose money on his conviction....
...You’d definitely want to book a stay in the Raven Hotel, “an establishment of peerless repute and timeless quality”....
...This year, seeds from Johnsons of Newmarket are being packaged under the stylist and columnist Sarah Raven’s name....
...China’s relative lack of such facilities means its logistics costs, according to Morgan Stanley, are currently twice those of the EU or US, relative to GDP....
...Josh Green, a former in-house asset-based lender at Merrill Lynch, is starting up Raven Capital in New York....
...The Raven Russia preference share (ticker RUSP) has a reliably competitive spread, which means that you get very close to the indicated 8.96 per cent yield....
...In a small studio in London’s Bethnal Green, Polly Morgan throws open her freezers to reveal an eclectic collection of dead animals. There are stoats, ravens, pigeons, canaries....
...Stephen Raven, who managed BMLIS operations in London, falls into the same category, since “no one in London had a clue,” says Madoff. “Stephen Raven is a typical English person, a bit of an old woman....
...Those comments were echoed by Morgan Stanley’s Teun Draaisma: “A growth cycle is starting, we intend to buy on weakness....
...Big fundraisings by Aim property companies have been under the spotlight after Raven Russia carried out an ambitious rights issue last year but was slow to invest the cash....
...That changed when Raven Russia, a group set up by entrepreneur Anton Bilton, came to market successfully nearly two years ago....
...Meanwhile, developers Yoo and Raven Group are at work on The Lakes, a similarly well-equipped group of rural retreats near Lechlade....
...The offer, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley, is at a 136 premium to historic net asset value, an almost unheard-of price....
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