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...She favours a deep pink lily-flowered tulip called Jacqueline, because it flowers for a long while, another useful tip, but I doubt if it will persist for years in most of Britain....
...If you opt to use a cupboard, remember that you must take the germinated seedlings out into frost-free daylight as soon as their green tips show....
...As for pollinators, they head for foreign beauties, tended in a garden, and wriggle into them busily....
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...Robin’s recommendations (all FT links get you past the paywall): –Robin’s public gardens, ‘the kissing fields’, are the gardens he runs at New College, Oxford....
...The swimming pool, for example, is plopped right at the heart of the hotel, in a courtyard garden with rich foliage and an all-day café, El Patio de Atocha, which is open-air in summer and surrounded by...
...There are several lovely towns on the north coast you could visit: Valldemossa or Sóller, or Port de Pollença on the north-east tip....
...He has plenty of simple, practical tips for sustainable gardening such as: “A tray under a pot outside can save 10 litres of water a year.”...
...I dot these around the garden, in beds and along paths, and the effect is atmospheric. I might also bring out some battery-powered lamps for the dining table. My final tips? Keep the menu simple....
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...That socio-economic tip is still being redressed, but meanwhile Forte remains one of Tuscany’s finest, broadest stretches of sand, with endless beach clubs – most with restaurants, some with boutiques, all...
...On sunny Lisbon mornings, breakfast in the garden is sublime. The magnificent garden has a generous-sized swimming pool that is actually usable for swimmers....
...In contrast to its narrow, busy, streets, the hotel’s palm grove and garden, complete with tennis court and five pools, is a haven....
...The manor has prissily landscaped gardens — always a sign of sinister vanity — and there are, literally, skeletons in closets. (In lighter moments, characters enjoy saffron buns.)...
...Two of the houses have private half-walled gardens; all enjoy shady terraces and fully equipped open-plan kitchens....
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...Benevolence could tip over into restrictive paternalism. Protest, as in some iPhone factory towns, was not far from the surface....
...This is my best tip. And if you can, find named hybrids, either the Ashwood varieties or I like best of all the Harvington hybrids....
...I have passed this tip on and acted on it myself, but I do not find that the clematis in the combo is very long-lived....
...Further afield among the many top tips are High Glanau in Monmouthshire, open on April 23 and especially interesting for being one of the NGS’s founder gardens back in 1927....
...A life of: “Japanese lampshades, House and Garden, French baby cars, white paint, asparagus tips, Earl Grey tea and stripped pine stereo systems — the reward of success is the freedom to choose a style of...
...Directions Via dei Fori Imperiali Mussolini’s hat-tip to imperial Rome, this sweeping avenue leading from Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum is fringed with towering pines on either side....
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