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...The berries are orange- red and extremely pretty in autumn....
...The great classical poets used to compare the shortlived beauty of girls and boys to the transient beauty of flowers and berries....
...The writer is Robin Herbert’s son-in-law...
...Look at the tasteful designs for any Christmas interior, the style inspirations and the chichi magazine spreads, and you’ll find foraged twigs, swags of green, berries, candles, logs and lanterns....
...He’s become Little John to the hunters’ Robin Hood. Access to hunting or a fishing spot, for Semerad, is merely one piece of a much larger American picture....
...Smooth-leaved Photinia Red Robin turns out to be ineffective: this sort of evidence-based research has a future....
...“They are all these beautiful intarsia knits, with little emblems on including a Christmas tree with ornaments, a wreath with berries and bells....
...Its eventual spread is wider, up to 12ft, but it too stops at about 20ft in height and has masses of excellent yellow berries in early autumn....
...Desire is a female, which will only berry in future years if a male is nearby to fertilise it, skimmia Kew Green or Rubella being widely available male options....
...I like my old friends, whose berries are a paler pink turning even paler if the birds do not strip them first....
...Such difficult decisions are very much in evidence now, says Robin Chatwin, head of south-west London at Savills, the estate agents....
...When trimmed it should never produce berries, let alone enough to poison visitors, so disregard scare stories about its “danger” as a hedge....
...The Green Tapestry has just been updated too and reissued as Green Tapestry Revisited (Berry & Co, £30)....
...The struggling rowan has however fulfilled its traditional Scottish role of keeping witches away, while producing enough orange berries to attract redwings. Trees lift the spirits....
...If you felt like turning to booze during the lockdowns, you weren’t alone as wine merchant Berry Bros attests....
...Since 2016, the president of the gardens scheme has been Mary Berry, famous for her role in that national television obsession, The Great British Bake Off....
...Most of them come from leaves but some of them are from berries. The best berries this year are those on thorny evergreen pyracanthas. I have never seen them so good, so I will start with them....
...Gin is botanically rooted in juniper berries, picked off the common juniper tree....
...Simply mix the berries with lemon juice, freshly squeezed, and white caster sugar. Nothing from the fridge can match it. Even I, a chef malgré soi, cannot spoil it....
...“You could get the recipe from Mary Berry for the loveliest cake you can imagine. But if you try to replicate that cake, good luck,” he added....
...Red berries have never been so spectacular since November, partly because birds have had many other options to eat in the mild season....
...Our 1.25-acre garden still has a few berries but most of the seed heads have gone, which is why we are feeding our nuthatches, dunnocks, woodpeckers, wrens, thrushes, tits, sparrows, blackbirds and robins...
...This article was amended to correct Robin Li’s name...
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...Meanwhile, even the wettest November has not blunted the autumn colours on beech trees or the quantity of berries on cotoneasters....
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