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...The “Willow Wand”, with its plaited stems forming a trunk, can be grown as a standalone tree, or in a line to form a pleached hedge....
...Half the farms went bankrupt,” says Laura Schoeman, the owner of Berluda ostrich farm....
...People were eking out 2021’s last rays lakeside as I got tipsy on sunshine at Panholzer, a chichi, almost Californian farm-to-table restaurant nearby....
...Anoraks on, shovels in ground, the team was at work bordering and studding what had been an old dairy farm — a monoculture of sweet grass for the cows — with willow, maple and dogwood saplings....
...Legend has it that in the 18th century a young woman named Kitty Jay found work on a farm....
...trades larger structures for topiary and espalier fruit-tree arches....
...Grayson has brought me to Fern Verrow, a biodynamic fruit, vegetable and flower farm near the border with Wales at the foot of the Black Mountains....
...It would be high summer and I would be dressed as a Watteau shepherd, picnicking beneath a willow tree on a West Country riverbank....
...What’s more, cutting the types of tree he was interested in such as ash, willow and hazel at ground level doesn’t kill the plant but equates to coppicing, the ancient technique of annually removing multiple...
...There is also the recent publication of Tree’s book, Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm....
...There is a pool, a gym and decking with views over the tree line. Why The interior and exterior are constructed out of local, natural materials, mostly cypress wood and stone....
...I continue to regard the cut-leaved alder, Alnus glutinosa Laciniata, as an underused big tree for farms and parks....
...There are elk — we can sense them but not see them — and the occasional willow grouse or ptarmigan, but no sight nor sound of life beyond these....
...In 1987 Holt founded the Owl Research Institute, a covey of farm buildings sheltered by willow and cottonwood trees 15 minutes from Ninepipes Lodge, near the village of Charlo....
...He was sent to a preparatory school at the age of nine — he referred to it as a “boy farm” — and to Marlborough College at the age of 14 where he was desperately unhappy but stoical....
...The prize in the Bend the Rules category in the 2015 Source Code Poetry contest went to Daniel Holden, who used the Piet programming language to create a poem that visually looks like a cortex of a tree,...
...The tree’s roots are at home in rough stones and 100 years of industrial effluent had warmed the river into a temperate microclimate....
...Take your pick of the pitches, with pine-tree shade or full-on sunshine....
...They clear-felled the Sitka, creating a wildlife corridor with native trees such as hawthorn, silver and downy birch, willow, sessile and pedunculate oak, blackthorn....
...Sipping tea and nibbling a hunk of cheese, I feel like a character from The Wind in the Willows....
...Tree-planting was “of questionable quality”, ENDS said....
...So what if Camilla, dancing naked under a willow tree, is only pretending to be a hippy for three days of the year? Why shouldn’t the poor woman be allowed a shot at an alternative lifestyle?...
...An enchanting story set in a well-drawn fantasy world. (7+) LUCY WILLOW by Sally Gardner illustrated by Peter Bailey Orion ₤8.99, 224 pages Eight-year-old Lucy Willow lives in a railway carriage and...
...After all, the New York mayor had just presided over a Christmas tree lighting ceremony outside City Hall....
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