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...Otherwise, restrain the urge to prune almost everything else, except long thin stems waving free of the older growth on a wisteria. Redirect your energy to weeding....
...Annabel’s daughter got married in the gardens there....
...Wisteria clings to the walls of the garden, where Bonheur’s beloved animals — sheep, horses, birds, lions and monkeys — once roamed freely, and the woods beyond loom deep and dark....
...Inspiration for training vines can be found by strolling under the extensive vine archway in the Edwardian Formal Garden at Powis Castle in Wales....
...From the 1880s onwards he lavished money on his paradise of a garden at Giverny, site of the lily pond, wisteria bridge and nasturtium avenue which have become globally famous through his paintings....
...Since June, wisterias have sent out thin, green stems that wave free of a wall or arch....
...Evoking Shinkai’s lucid palette, Cindy Lin’s shape-shifting set design is a cut-out silhouette of the city skyline that transforms fluidly into a packed commuter train or the lush wisteria blossom of the...
...And so gardeners need to plant appropriately: wisteria, agave; allium, fig and agapanthus are among the drought-tolerant plants suggested by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew....
...The smaller your garden, the higher the chance that you will give your wishes the attention they appreciate. In my bigger garden they must take whatever they happen to get....
...He escaped to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and became a senior propagator there of great skill and then a curator of London’s Chelsea Physic Garden. He was modest and exceptionally talented....
...The romantic route curls and meanders in and out of camellia woods, down to Jellicoe’s musical creation, where wisteria and the great paddles of monkshood reflect in the water as it settles in pools between...
...More than 20 years later, on summer days the steel walls vanish behind wisteria, clematis and roses (there are about 100 plant species in all)....
...Another spell followed in late January and left us with dead bedding, dead hebes, dead cistuses and, in my case, dead daphnes and a dead wisteria on an arch in open ground. Replacements are not cheap....
...Uppingham is the nicer of the two towns, with its wisteria-clad houses, Friday market and a butcher, baker and hardware store....
...After an aperitivo in the garden, it’s finally time to eat....
...The space was originally the head gardener’s cottage, accessed through a garden planted with wisteria, lavender and English roses....
...Wisteria leaves, on the other hand, of which we have an immense number, are thin and small and rot down easily....
...“Recently, we were here in the country and it was the most beautiful sunny day,” recalls Richardson. “ I put rugs out in the garden and made Mum a cup of tea....
...Beyond the terracotta-tiled terraces and wisteria-covered pergolas, you will find a saltwater pool screened by olive trees....
...In the Japanese bridge paintings of 1918-24, the wisteria-laden arch is hardly discernible beneath ragged clumps of paint....
...for hay after the wisteria and hornbeams have flowered....
...Close to Campo de’ Fiori, Galleria Spada is worth a visit: its Giardino Segreto (secret garden) features one of the most spectacular Baroque artifices in Rome, the illusionistic Colonnata (or Prospettiva...
...Six years later, its bay windows face out over Hyde Park Corner and Buckingham Palace Garden; its rooftop commands a view that on a clear day reaches from Canary Wharf to White City....
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