Hints and tips:
...Blues named after members of the Ballard family are quite a good bet, but I follow on with the healthy Aster amellus King George, a fine lavender blue to a height of about 2ft....
...After all, the so-called New Wave that swept over SF in the 1960s and ’70s arose in opposition to the genre’s prevailing conservative orthodoxy, with the likes of JG Ballard and Michael Moorcock using experimental...
...Hugh Nunn, who trained at Kew, lived almost on Ballard’s back doorstep and with her generosity, was able to breed from the best of her well-selected colours....
...For more information on the Clipper Round The World Race, go to clipperroundtheworld.com Photographs: Murray Ballard; Hulton Archive/Getty Images...
...Tech dystopias and utopias have long been staples of science fiction, in such writers as Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov and JG Ballard....
...Fellowship is mildew-resistant, perhaps because of its ancestry, and along with Algars Pride, Sarah Ballard and various ones called Climax it is still an excellent choice....
...The success of last year’s film adaptation of JG Ballard’s High-Riseshows how Brutalism has become a cipher for social breakdown....
...Ballard-style) of nature’s revenge on civilisation, but it is a nature horribly transformed by the human intervention to which it reacts....
...I also have to have the superb double blue Ada Ballard, though mildew is a risk in the later stages of her season....
...“It will be a huge litmus test for the market,” said Simon Ballard, senior credit strategist at RBC Capital Markets. “The European high-yield market has been effectively broken over the summer.”...
...“This is an increasingly difficult time for corporate bonds,” says Simon Ballard, a strategist at RBC Capital Markets....
...Their answer to Ballard’s hybrid is hepatica x media “Harvington Beauty” from the Vale of Evesham, where it even grows on dry sandy soil....
...I exempt the true blue-flowered Ada Ballard from my general ban on novi-belgii asters as victims of bad mildew. Ada Ballard is less prone to this disease and its flowers are magnificent....
...Michaelmas daisy is the great beneficiary and I am eagerly waiting for the big burst of colour from favourites like pinkish Kylie, electric blue Little Carlow, the greatest of all, and classic double blue Ada Ballard...
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