Hints and tips:
...The estate extends to a lake and grounds designed by Capability Brown, as well as cottages, tennis courts, boathouse and spa....
...For roses that go on forever, you must visit Kiftsgate Court Gardens, created by three generations of female gardeners....
...The roadside pool has been joined by a bocce ball court and a dry sauna....
...brand’s 11th property is one they’re calling a “base camp”‚ a gateway to the Atacama’s multitude of wilderness attractions: geysers and hot springs, mysterious salt flats, volcanoes to scale and outrageous wildflower...
...There are baskets overflowing with rolls of Bertioli wallpaper, fabric samples draped over sofas and vases filled with wildflowers, set alongside her latest subject – a simple jar of lovage....
...Queen Camilla’s gown, designed by occasionwear designer Bruce Oldfield and made of a silk fabric called peau de soie, featured garlands of wildflowers cascading down from the shoulders....
...They travelled south and saw the inspiring nursery at Bury Court, run by John Coke and Marina Christopher in Hampshire....
...First flourishing in ancient Egypt and China, permanent botanicals also propagated in the royal courts of Europe, from Italy to Versailles, where they found favour during the time of Louis XIV and Marie...
...Why The property’s nine-acre grounds include informal and formal gardens with cedar of Lebanon trees, as well as oak and cherry, magnolias, topiaried yew bushes, herbaceous borders and wildflower meadows...
...It is a favourite with planters of big wildflower landscapes as it is tall and easy to please....
...Skylight, Tobacco Dock There is something for both the armchair and active sports fan at this Tobacco Dock rooftop, with croquet and pétanque courts — as well as World Cup and Wimbledon screenings, naturally...
...A five-bedroom house with garden studio in the busy village of East Knoyle £5m A 409-acre arable farm on the Somerset/Dorset border Shows on the road The picturesque Hauser & Wirth Somerset, set in wildflower...
...My kids were a little disappointed by the heaps of snow piled along the unusable tennis courts (they were thrilled, of course, by the snow itself — the first time they’d seen it in India)....
...There’s the hillside golf course, with cowbells, wildflowers and birdsong, and three new Davis-Cup-ready tennis courts (two indoors and one outside), which hope to attract the likes of Stan Wawrinka and...
...The key to the Gherkin’s very public implosion lies among the wildflower meadows and placid lakes of Switzerland....
...The room was once the “bawdy court” where, as the name suggests, those accused of unruly behaviour were summoned....
...We scurried along wildflower-rich shorelines, glimpsing church towers and diving shags as we pointed Eve’s bowsprit this way and that. In the end, we didn’t end up among the medals, I’m afraid to say....
...Instead, he celebrates some of the humbler wildflowers, native plants, fruit and vegetables that are an important part of the organic ethos of his estate....
...Tickets for this year’s Chelsea have sold out but Hampton Court Palace Flower Show tickets are now on sale....
...Slumbering quietly, Frampton Court was the place where publishers hit on the Frampton Flora – a collection of 19th-century watercolours of the wildflowers of Frampton and the surrounding area – in the 1980s...
...Lady Bird Johnson, former first lady, established a wildflower centre near Austin and made city authorities stop cutting highway verges willy-nilly....
...Now, after years of hacking away, Tavenner has rediscovered boulders, natural pools and riverbanks blessed with wildflowers and rare lichens....
...Before a barn on your right, look left for a glimpse of Stokesay Court....
...But I do not think, either, that a wildflower meadow is “essentially a lawn that has been allowed to grow wild”....
International Edition