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'Water as clear as this, flashing turquoise and azure, tends to overwhelm normal survival instincts'

... and azure, tends to overwhelm normal survival instincts' oddly like walking through a deserted Gothic church and the Chelsea Flower Show at one and the same time-colours of stained glass were thrown onto a mass of herbaceous borders, giant cabbages and ...

Published: Thursday 10 March 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 109 | Tags: none

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... opinionated, highly amusing and, generally, right. Leslie Geddes-Brown's newly updated history of the Chelsea Flower Show, Chelsea: The Greatest Flower Show on Earth, is published on April 6 by Darling ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: 149 | Tags: none

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... summer, the Grosvenor House Fair starts this week. HuoN M AHAI./EU presents a personal selection CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW REVIEW Britain's best-loved flower show is in danger of losing its integrity to tea towels and trays, says RoY STRONG FRENCH ...

Published: Thursday 07 June 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 422 | Page: 148 | Tags: none

A hard life in the market garden

... Amenities Officer Technical for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea spent many years creating award-winning horticultural plant exhibits both at the Chelsea Flower Show and other shows held by the Royal Horticultural Society in its ...

Published: Friday 28 December 2001
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 420 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

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... uk/5093 ~,~?,~~~~. ~~';>,L,~ · sanctuarv gardertl offices t 01363 772061 www.sanctuarygardenoffices.com See us at the Chelsea Flower Show. Stand No. PW2B GRIFFIN GLASSHOUSES LTD A family run business specialising in the manufacturer of bespoke aluminium ...

Published: Thursday 18 May 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 484 | Page: 214 | Tags: none

(Above) 3- Magic Urn at Saltram, Devon, by Ranulf and Giles Rayner. (Right) 4-Giles Rayner's Topiary in the ..

... where he won the sculpture prize, before moving on to Kingston University. The weeping tree caused a sensation at Chelsea Flower Show and became the central feature of a ptivate aviary in Blackpool. often Classical or figurative (Fig 5), reflecting the ...

Published: Thursday 08 April 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 501 | Page: 101 | Tags: none

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... than agate) for a rather more affordable £ 225. Indeed, when Mr Strongwater comes over to London this summer to attend Chelsea Flower Show, I look forward to introducing him to the proprietor of Halcyon Days over a plate of Haddock Parker Bowles at Green's ...

Published: Thursday 22 April 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 525 | Page: 188 | Tags: none

AND NOW?

... glasshouses and automatic watering systems to appear. In 1959, Webb's robotic radio-controlled mower was unveiled at Chelsea Flower Show. A new houseplant industry was emerging, and David H essayon published Be Your 011'11 Houseplant Expert, the first of ...

Published: Thursday 07 July 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 511 | Page: 95 | Tags: none

178 PERFORMING ARTS

... 178 PERFORMING ARTS 158 CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW PREVIEW Bring on the excitement, says KATHRYN BRADLEY-HOLE 162 LONDON PORTFOLIO CAROLINE fETHERSTONHAUGH on an idyllic Queen Anne-style house overlooking a cricket green 164 EXHIBITION:THE SILK ROAD jASON GooDWIN ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 487 | Page: 134 | Tags: none

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... specification as standard. Lights, walk-in steps and highly reliable fi ltration/heating systems. Dyer Gold Medal Chelsea Flower Show Travel AA*** RAC*** GABRIEL COURT HOTEL Stoke Gabriel, South Devon TQ9 6SF Tel: 01803 782206 Fax: 01803 782333 www. ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1141 | Page: 149 | Tags: none

A thoroughly superior boot sale

... Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, organised by the Suffolk Group National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens. Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medallists Fernatix and Harvey's Garden Plants are among the nurseries selling plants (01449 736358; www.helmingham ...

Published: Thursday 14 September 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1249 | Page: 131 | Tags: none

Learning miracles by heart

... down the Mll in a rainstorm without windscreen wlpers. All this came back to me this week at the Chelsea Flower Show where I had long stretches of the show gardens to myself as the rains fell in tropical torrents. I could see the stems of hydrangeas emerging ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1332 | Page: 168 | Tags: none