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...They grow well in pots in a shady urban courtyard or balcony where they can be moved out of the limelight when their season of flower is over in May....
...Cunningham’s writing is careful and stately: were it not for its setting, we might well be in Wharton’s Old New York or in a novel by Henry James....
...I added violets and Queen Anne’s jonquil, to my mind the richest, headiest of the daffodils....
...Queen Fab holds clustered heads of pale violet flowers on stems about a foot and half high. She is not hardy, but if planted in late April she will usually survive a mid-May frost....
...Her piece “Sweet Violet” draws links between the human heart and a seed, while also reflecting on ideas of birth and nurturing....
...Moore expertly catches the long tail of childhood in adulthood, and the furious internal drama of children’s day-to-day lives (Isabel’s daughter Violet is a brilliantly daunting creation)....
...These use its extreme ultra-violet (EUV) technology. Controls announced in June apply to sophisticated versions of an older technology, deep ultra-violet (DUV) equipment....
...“I absolutely dress as my house,” says Violet Dent, the brand’s creative director. “There isn’t much distinction between the two.” As a trend, is interiors-matching fashion over the top?...
...It is loved by well-schooled Arabic speakers, but is challenging, even for them, with its old vocabulary and range of compressed allusions....
...Kudzanai-Violet Hwami has created a vibrant print (edition of 35, £3,573) with Avant Arte in support of LGBTQ+-led arts, health and social action charity Queercircle....
...And if you’re going there, you may as well also go up to Hackney for the best cake and coffee at Violet. Claire Ptak made the wedding cake for Harry and Meghan....
...I was met with traditional Italian hospitality, which fits in well with a city as welcoming as this....
...This is a well-trodden path to the red carpet of the Academy Awards....
...Matisse favoured more nuanced hues, with touches of lavender, violet, crimson, yellow-gold and sienna....
...These are not designs for shrinking violets, but the collection’s warm brown tones sit nicely with classic colours such as navy, grey and taupe....
...In a rare interview with the Guardian in 2012, Coates said that she was no “shrinking violet” but that she did not enjoy public attention. “I’ve been bossy all my life....
...The company drew inspiration from Net-a-Porter as well as from Asos, one of the first online fast-fashion platforms....
...“Ah well, really we can only make our paintings speak,” Van Gogh wrote in a note found at his death on July 29 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village on the outskirts of Paris....
...If looking at Judy Chicago’s art makes you uncomfortable, well, good....
...The most striking, and accessible, of the Rocha da Fajã cascades is the Poço do Bacalhau (in English the Cod’s Well)....
...‘‘Fungi are good at reminding us that there are so many ways to be . . . this diversity is useful to remind us as humans that we can do the same as well’, says Lee Davies, fungarium collections manager at...
...Scarlet and white, deep violet-purple and pale yellow, anything which minimises rose carmine and excludes the gruesome ones with veins and streaks of violet on their flowers: do not under or overwater, as...
...“He’s not an artist or designer, and has an altogether different type of sensibility, which ultimately is why we work so well together.”...
...Combining with vitamin C works exceptionally well on areas with redness, post-inflammatory hyper-pigmentation, and brown patches related to melasma....
...Their leaves, he well observes, have a very different shape and texture to a clematis’s, which will sprawl over them....
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