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...Branson has had a long association with the island....
...patrolling village greens, and everywhere carpets of wild flowers uncontaminated by pesticides....
...Knight Frank is selling an 11-bedroom house with a pool on Grove Park Gardens, a tree-lined road between Strand-on-the-Green and Chiswick bridge, for £8m....
...“There’s enough noise in Rye Lane without us having the salons right at the bottom of our gardens,” remarks Shirley Nield, treasurer of the Atwell Estate tenants and residents association, whose home will...
...Today, the gardens include a cactus grove and a spectacular display of South African proteas, such as Leucospermum cordifolium Scarlet Ribbon....
...For the remainder of weather-beaten homeowners, the torrential rain and winter storms left a significant high-water mark....
...But now I have found a new reason to enjoy being a homeowner. The winter flowering cherry that my mum helped me plant in the front a decade ago is now big and in full bloom....
...These are likely to be houses with gardens, priced at £400,000 ($630,000) or more....
...To make matters worse, its winters are among the harshest in the lower 48 states....
...Baroque towns brim with sites of architectural and historic interest, fishing villages maintain a centuries-old rhythm of life and small beach resorts have a level of service that is rough-edged yet hospitable...
...Philip Nixon’s, inspired by the Tate Modern gallery, contains beds of mixed perennial flowers seen through box-hedge frames while Tom Stuart-Smith’s garden will include a hornbeam grove with pruned foliage...
...“Speightstown is a town that is going to happen,” says Altman, who is converting the local car park into a commercial village of traditional wooden chattel houses selling crafts....
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