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...I’ve been following the career of British wine merchant Robin Davis ever since he ran the nearest wine shop to me when I lived in Belsize Park....
...I am a Robin, last Wednesday was Valentine’s Day, but I am not a bird. I was in my garden, pondering, not tweeting....
...Robin Lane Fox travelled as a guest of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on X or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...Blossom was everywhere, and the ubiquitous cover crops between the vines were also in full bloom, knee-high and above, ready to be mown down by the sheep that many growers hire or raise themselves....
...And now in Britain, the very merchant who first championed those South African wines, Robin Davis of Swig, is going crazy about Italy, specifically, “an exciting new wave of young talent and new ideas that...
...Interesting, topical article on lessons on Mediterranean planting by Robin Lane Fox (House & Home, July 29)....
...Prune them off too, keeping in mind the image of a well-pruned or spurred vine in a vineyard, cut back to its hard older growth and checked from becoming too green and sprawly....
...He was previously an investor at Vine Ventures....
...Even the once dazzling yellows, blues and reds on the flower-and-vine detailing on gate catches, chairs and pillars had faded or been washed away by rain....
...There are prickly pears and lizards, but also roses and robins. Some of the gentler clifftops suggest Cornwall with cactuses....
...Brown Advisory, the investment management firm, has made three senior hires to its international advisory board: ex-Chatham House CEO Sir Robin Niblett, Rothschild & Co senior adviser Sian Westerman, and...
...They grew “vines, fruits, herbs and flowers so glistening and so well kept that I have not seen anything more fruitful or elegant anywhere else”, More wrote....
...On sunny walls, facing west or south, town gardeners, especially in warm London, should grow the white climbing potato vine, Solanum jasminoides album, and on high walls, some mimosa, Acacia baileyana, as...
...I will treasure the sight of pink nerines among red and white-flowered Salvia Hot Lips, below the climbing white potato vine, Solanum jasminoides album....
...Sitting at a high table, surrounded by leggy crystal glasses, we are having a private blending session – just the two of us and guide Celine Robin....
...Hercules wears the Dionysian crown of vines, meaning that he’s had a couple of rounds too many. Omphale has borrowed the bleary hero’s lionskin and club....
...The Company keeps it in bottles, not on vines in their garden. It puts such a shine on a twice-jabbed consumer’s day. In my personal herbal, it is the best City treatment for pro-lunch wimps....
...Indulgences include Chateaubriand to share (£70) with truffle mushrooms, hand-cut chips, roasted vine tomatoes and Madeira jus, teamed with cocktails, created alongside fragrance house Miller Harris and...
...In claret country, desperate owners of vineyards have resorted to night-time fires as a defence against ruin of their vines’ flowers....
...“Robin” is their name for a rubber plant. What will happen to the trade after Brexit? My guess is that more paperwork and hassle over transport will put up prices....
...Silly price for a four-year-old wine. £13.95 The Wine Society Ch Les Anguilleys 2015 Médoc, Bordeaux 13%Les Anguilleys is a label of Ch Vieux Robin in Bégadan in the northern Médoc....
...Peaseblossom takes human form but he’s made of vines and foliage. So I have arms and legs and a head....
...The climbers in the garden are superb, from the pale blue Sky Vine to the many epiphytic orchids and plants that cling to the big tree trunks....
...Behind them were staved-in huts, plumeria trees strangled in weedy vines, the odd rat scuttling in the undergrowth....
...Today, he has 15 hectares of low-yielding vines up to 100 years old and capable of producing some compelling wines. A French base is useful for anyone selling barrels....
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