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...Here, the hillside is dressed in dry grasses of amber and tan and orange, wildflowers of creamy white, fragrant herbs bleached yellow....
...The garden is high with salvias and grasses, the house is wreathed in climbing roses....
...Plus, the terms on which they will trade with Europe and the world remain unknown — export tariffs or new trade deals may make British farm products from beef to butter uncompetitive....
...The secret is barely advertised: Khaudum is a huge park on the Namibia-Botswana border that is all but unknown to outsiders....
...Even the true extent of the degradation is unknown, he said, because there is no standardised way to measure grassland quality across the plateau....
...Those ubiquitous shrubs chosen to provide bulk rather than texture and subtlety are now supplemented, or even replaced, by grasses and perennials and a far wider palette of plants....
...Deep in the interior of Sutherland and Caithness, “the Flows” form a widescreen panorama of silvery pools, scrubby grasses and muted colours, framed by low dark hills and enormous skies – nature’s version...
...“Emilia, our cook, makes the most wonderful ice cream from fruits that are unknown outside this area,” Frewen says....
...Angola is in large part an unknown land of bad roads, crowded cities, indifferent food, and – unusual for Africa – a country with no large wild animals....
...Large, lonely-hearted concierge Renée (jolie grasse Josiane Balasko) looks after a Paris apartment block....
...Private collections have yielded unknown masterpieces – Caillebotte’s massively frontal view of his country estate, with red and yellow flowers bursting from the foreground, “The Dahlias”, “Garden at Petit...
...Painted in 1718, its importance has remained unknown since it was bequeathed to the owner’s family....
...No one captured the feathery lightness of new leaves and grasses as well as Renoir, who to me is the painter of May, nature’s gayest (in the old sense) month....
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