My Top Tips for Buying a Real Christmas Tree
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Part of my day job is buying Christmas trees for British department store John Lewis & Partners. It’s a task I particularly enjoy since […]
Pine
Chi Lin Nunnery 志蓮淨苑, Hong Kong
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Three cheers for British Airways! Why? Because without them charging £1000 more to travel on a Friday night versus a Saturday night, I […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016 Preview: Royal Bank of Canada Garden
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This will be my final post before the lucky few (who include HM The Queen, but not me this year) are granted early admittance […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016 Preview: The Cloudy Bay Garden
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In just 11 days the Chelsea Flower Show will fling open its gates to an expectant crowd of RHS members and their guests. Until […]
Top Tips for Choosing and Dressing Your Christmas Tree
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Every year my team and I dress a hundred or more Christmas trees for product reviews, press shows, store displays and special customers, but when […]
Wreath 3 Kings
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As Christmas approaches, I find myself rapidly running out of time to do all the wholesome, festive projects I promised myself I would tackle. […]
Paradise Found – Bumthang to Punakha
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First off, meet these cheeky grey langurs we met steeling bags of salt near the pass at Pele La. They’re not rare, but they […]
Pinus communicata
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With its smooth grey bark and short spreading branches, Pinus communicata very much lives up to its common name, the bottle brush pine. Common […]