Hints and tips:
...v=Ae1lCrnsm3k Robin’s outdoor winter suggestions for the UK are: the winter flowering cherry tree (Prunus subhirtella autumnalis)....
...Its new owners “act as sparring partners, helping us to set the right processes and organisation [for us] to grow up”, he explains, while “letting us stand strong on who we are, in a market where it’s easy...
...I wish we’d had the magic carpet to float us from the cool, damp roadside to sunnier, warmer San Luis Potosí state....
...May 26; further information and tickets here RHS Chelsea Flower Show “Chelsea”, as it is simply known, is a fixture in the London social diary....
...Serena Gamberoni, Daniela Pini and Joel Prieto headline....
...Sported by Wilde’s predominantly gay male circle, the flower rapidly became a coded emblem of homosexuality....
...Every article began with her “holding court” at the Chelsea Flower Show. One day a tall poppy, the next — mulch....
...Some stripped off their clothes and lay against the cool of the grass, others wandered through the flowers....
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...The now defunct label’s black Lycra Amorphous disco dress is in the V&A museum’s collection....
...Magnolia grandiflora scrambling up the front of houses beats its thick, glossy leaves as if counting the days until its vast, scented flowers appear....
...Deakin says his company had customers from Europe and the US “queueing up” for coronation cufflinks before their launch....
...The US Postal Service has also released five new stamps honouring Lichtenstein’s work....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...Flowers moulded from glass, leather, crystal and tulle frothed from the décolleté of a black velvet jumpsuit....
...Take her Self Evident series of eight portraits of black Britons, taken in 1995 and now part of the V&A collection....
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...The result is a hypnotic, hanging ossuary that begs us to fight for our freedom before we die....
...“I hope you’re going to be kinder about us than you were about that poor Mr X,” Her Majesty observed....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...become one with the flowers....
...From Julian Fellowes to Nicholas Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum, they are full of interest....
...A ring of LEDs shaped like LV’s signature flowers lights up in a kaleidoscope of shades in time to the music, and a further circle of lights flashes “L-O-U-I-S-V-U-I-T-T-O-N.”...
...“I clearly remember my first experience of being wheeled out into the sunshine, to hear the birds singing and to smell flowers,” he says....
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