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...They helped to build the house on it, a bungalow, named, so their Norfolk builder told them, because it is “low and you ‘bung’ a low roof on it”....
...In small spaces in yards, on balconies or flat roofs, possibilities have recently multiplied. Look especially for low-growing beans....
...In special sections of the book, she discusses bulbs on balconies in spring and in summer and bulbs for green roofs, those plantings in shallow layers of soil on sheds or garages....
...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...
...Under the garden’s main wall d’Ursel took me into a rare survivor, an original vegetable cellar, a cave à légumes, cool and airy beneath a roof of 18th-century brick....
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...“Welcome to Sumatra,” O’Brien announced, after taking me up a private staircase to the very top of the Palm House’s roof-span....
...a seedling of the rampant white Kiftsgate, was covered in cream-apricot clusters above my primary viewing point, a garden seat; the little-known Mrs Honey Dyson had rambled over half of the vicarage’s roof...
...There were snowmen skiing, snowy roofs, footsteps in the snow and snowy boughs. I think it snowed once at Christmas in my entire childhood....
...Described by Gray as “a bona fide folk hero”, Paleokostas has long styled himself as a crusader against corruption and been nicknamed Robin Hood for his habit of handing out the spoils of his heists to those...
...“Multistrats” basically combine a lot of different hedge fund strategies under one roof, and manage risk centrally....
...There are prickly pears and lizards, but also roses and robins. Some of the gentler clifftops suggest Cornwall with cactuses....
...Perriand filled her apartments with her own creations: her ’20s shock sensation, the Bar Sous Le Toit (Bar Under the Roof) – an aluminium cocktail bar surrounded by nickel-plated copper stools, a chrome-plated...
...“It should be everyone under the same roof. ” Humair says he would love nothing more....
...Haslett Letters in response to this article: Defining democracy as ‘western’ is problematic / From Sebastian Woller, Bern, Switzerland Liberals need to show good grace of conservative rivals / From Robin...
...April 25; further information here May Event The Big Design Market, Royal Exhibition Building Find 200 of Australia’s leading designers under one roof, selling everything from homewares and ceramics...
...It will soon include a shelter with an edible green roof of alpine strawberries, thyme and nasturtiums, whose peppery leaves are good in salads....
...Hibbert was home alone with three young children, all terrified by the ghost stories they’d been told by the gardener, when the roof sprang a major leak. As she recalls, “We hadn’t done a survey.”...
...The booming secondary market in watches is often seen as a Wild West, where speculators push prices through the roof in search of big profits....
...Such difficult decisions are very much in evidence now, says Robin Chatwin, head of south-west London at Savills, the estate agents....
...Unlike his better-known contemporaries — such as Robin Day or Sir Terence Conran — Clendinning was not a household name....
...I suppose all those clean lines and the lack of furniture makes one appreciate a building’s structure more — the beams, the shape of a roof, the brickwork. Beautiful, yes, thoroughly sublime....
...Founded by a trio of tech guys based in Slovenia, it’s available to pre-order now — in blue or canary yellow and with an optional solar-powered roof — and will ship in September. Bird Buddy, from $199...
...“If anything is described by an architectural plan,” wrote historian Robin Evans in his influential 1978 essay “Figures, doors and passages”, “it is the nature of human relationships.”...
...Robin Gilmore, who owns the Civic Hotel, where floodwaters reached the second floor, estimated his losses at A$2.5mn....
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