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Say it with flowers: the blooms you buy on St Valentine's Day are likely to have been cultivated overseas, by women working in harsh, often illegal conditions
The language of flowers may once have been about horticulture and romance. Today, it has become a dialect of industrialism. Flowers, which once grew ......(Continue Reading) Gardening; DIRT-CHEAP GARDENER; Plant peonies now, dig those flowers
There's a leap of faith involved in planting herbaceous peonies in the fall. A clump of roots is all you see, so there's no way to view the flowers ......(Continue Reading)Juicy living: she may not take exotic vacations or drive a sports car, but she still manages to enjoy the nectar of life
It's fitting that my friend Gina had just indulged in a luxurious massage when she spotted the phrase she would adopt as the motto for her life. The ......(Continue Reading)shed with style
This cottage-like shed looks right at home mingling with flowers and foliage. Is your garage so full of garden tools that you can't even park a car inside?...(Continue Reading)Impressions of despair: Richard Cork discovers a darker Monet in the painter's long lament for his wife - art
Despair is not an emotion we associate with Monet. His irrepressible optimism nourishes most of the work he produced, but on one occasion even Monet ......(Continue Reading)
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