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...There was rain in the night, and in the morning the scent of warm cypress and fallen pine needles mingled with that of lavender and rosemary....
...Helleborus Argutifolius blooms from January until April, while Helleborus Anna’s Red and Walberton’s Rosemary are in flower from December to March....
...It’s a hot, spicy scent that opens with cypress, rosemary and peppermint and settles into a musky, dry mix of cedarwood, patchouli and leather....
...If you flashed back to Rosemary’s Baby, you may be on to something; the name of the child happens to be Rose....
...We wend past thatched cottages, stern medieval castles atop rocky hills, and along the 78km length of Lake Balaton, which sits on a volcanic soil bed....
...Just two days before her death, Queen Elizabeth II was photographed at Balmoral Castle in what would be her last official engagement....
...It was just after 3pm when the Queen’s coffin, topped with her crown and a wreath composed of lavender, rosemary and pine taken from her castles at Windsor and Balmoral, was laid on the catafalque at Westminster...
...He was describing a Tuscan noblewoman murdered at her husband’s castle in a part of the world where, for centuries, violence and disease prevailed....
...Later on, braised lamb shoulder from the nearby Goodwood estate is rich and succulent, while figs from the garden, steeped in honey and rosemary, are intensely sweet....
...Barbara Castle’s ministerial car was caught in traffic from London....
...“One pot is sea salt, rosemary and pine nut, and the other is strawberry salad.”...
...We’re talking at the cottage she shares with Oldham in the grounds of Highclere Castle in Hampshire. Her laboratory sits across a muddy track in a repurposed barn....
...After throwing on a few sprigs of rosemary and urging me to listen to the “song of the fire” — just as his grandmother taught him to do as a small boy — he leaves the potatoes to cook....
...Build a stone hearth and surround it with beds of rosemary and lavender. (It would keep guests warm on chilly evenings, too.)...
...The current group includes historians Rosemary Hill and Professor David Olusoga, novelist Alan Hollinghurst and art historian Philip Mould....
...In the early 1980s, Rosemary Verey designed new plantings for the current owners, Galen and Hilary Weston....
...Inside the castle grounds, I inspect the mint and rosemary that will one day go into that award-winning gin, clinging to my umbrella like the mint leaves to their stems....
...But even as the silhouette of Ibiza town, topped by its castle and cathedral, receded behind me another appeared ahead — the flattish, grey-green shape of a Mediterranean island whose simple beauty befits...
...Set to music by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, the free “Deep Time” show, which seeks to tell the story of 350m years of geological history, will be projected on 7,000 sq m of Edinburgh Castle and Castle...
...The vegetation is a mixture of classic Mediterranean scrub (juniper, rosemary, mastic, wild olive) and unfamiliar endemic plants such as Balearic buckthorn....
...When first laid out, her parterre was executed in sage and rosemary. As at the Villa Lante, the use of evergreen box only came in later....
...Rainton, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire DG7 2DR; creamogalloway.co.uk La Gelatiera This Covent Garden gelato shop offers a unique range of flavours made fresh on the premises from...
...In the bottom half was a concentrated lamb consommé, in the top an amalgam of star anise, tarragon, rosemary and lamb jelly....
...Think of the most influential gardens of the time – among them Rosemary Verey’s Barnsley House, which I was lucky to photograph almost every week for several years; Penelope Hobhouse’s Tintinhull; Miriam...
...At Sissinghurst Castle she planted the White Garden which remains such a heavenly sight on a June evening....
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