Two hundred years ago, a Philadelphia gardener imported the Chinese tree of heaven, and Chinese immigrants later introduced it on the West Coast. |
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Here John McPhail, the gardener, was at work trenching in 1828 to create beds for the already burgeoning plant collection. |
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Just inside the gates, an overalled gardener with a gentle face is poking insincerely at the dripping rhododendrons with a pair of secateurs. |
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In a previous era he'd have been a gardener on a large estate, and still retains all of his deference to people he considers his betters. |
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Mother was a very keen gardener and under her supervision we grew all our own vegetables and looked after the flower garden and shrubbery. |
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For any gardener who isn't yet convinced about the need to garden organically, here are some statistics that may change your mind. |
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Now, he is a proud gardener with rows of Chinese cabbages, spinach, carrots and turnips growing from those trenches. |
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It's odd how often Mother Nature has the final say when it comes to gardening, despite the best efforts of the gardener. |
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The gardener who misses a ride on the crest of this weather system risks a whole season of catch-up. |
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One day I was sent as a gardener to a Mrs Milligan of 127 Holden Road, Finchley. |
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It's a handsome house carefully attended by a mindful gardener who simply underscores its unfussy character. |
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Stipends in kind were paid to 4 harrowers, 2 oxherds, a carter, cowman, gardener, beadle, and reeve. |
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An unexploded bomb from the Second World War was uncovered by a gardener as he fixed a pensioner's fence. |
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A beneficial insect is usually defined by the gardener as one that preys on insects that can damage plants of value to that very same gardener. |
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The gardener had had to spray gasoline on them to facilitate combustion, and the smell was unpleasant. |
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He then found job as a gardener in a Capuchin monastery, a job he held for the rest of his life. |
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He was an avid golfer and gardener and swam every day, in good weather in a pond at his rural home, otherwise in the University natatorium. |
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Or again, he was an amazingly neat gardener, one might almost say a perfectionist. |
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The gardener got quite snippy and started lecturing me about the law and asserting that she had a legal right to cut back the trees in her yard. |
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As caretaker and gardener of Geraldton War Memorial he leaves no weeds unturned, stone unraked or bush untrimmed. |
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My current gardener is a lazy so-and-so and I'm sorely tempted to give him his marching orders. |
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The gardener is always lurking about between brew-ups in his dreadful shed. |
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If we employed a cleaner, gardener or shirt presser, we could not afford the house. |
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I call myself a gardener, but I just let the whole vegie patch go completely to seed. |
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What does this mean for an aspiring fuchsia gardener who wants to grow some in a hanging basket? |
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Leila had known it was a good idea to get a gardener, in spite of what others said. |
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For Ben the Bucket, the Dale's demon gardener, the summer has been both a triumph and a tragedy. |
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The college bursar, Graham has a note on file on the day in question, based on information from Carol, gardener at the school. |
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He is also noted as a gardener who has grown, among other things, 100 varieties of day lilies. |
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As I work in the field of analysis and policy formulation, my focus is to make sure I am more like a gardener than an engineer. |
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Just before slipping into the back seat of the car, gardener Tom would pick a flower for his boss' buttonhole. |
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Persistent weeds are a common problem for both the novice gardener and the professional farmer. |
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At the foot of the garden path she found her eldest sister, picking some of the flowers their gardener had allowed to grow wild there. |
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Mr Waite, who lives in Salisbury with his partner, Linda, is a keen gardener and likes walking with his Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Poppy. |
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An accomplished woodsman, hunter, arborist, and gardener, he was also a highly skilled archer and sharpshooter. |
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And he was well served by his staff, who included a gardener, a water-carrier, a dhobi, and a watchman. |
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During the Regency period the landscape gardener Humphrey Repton re-established the flower garden around the house. |
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And if their blues, purples and soft whites began to pall, the gardener could add the hot yellows of the woundworts. |
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He masqueraded as the gardener and cook, under the alias of David Motsamayi. |
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She was a keen gardener and an experienced yachtswoman, both round the British coast and abroad. |
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He's a fellah I was at school with who was a gardener, but he got religion so keep away from him. |
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Like the fabulously deceptive creations of the great landscape gardener Capability Brown, it will speak of wild, untrammelled nature. |
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He was also a keen gardener and kept the station looking its best with plants and flowers. |
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The scheme includes the restoration of the parkland to the designs of the renowned early 19th century landscape gardener, Humphrey Repton. |
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The association has employed a gardener who uses water from the park's borewell. |
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The genus Celosia, of the amaranth family, offers blooms that satisfy the florist or gardener who's looking for a more unusual plant. |
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Lorne Fitts, master gardener, adjusts the irrigation system for his Delicata and Hubbard squashes at the community garden. |
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Head gardener Andy Jesson's choreographed colour show brings American-style leaf-peeping to Britain. |
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He obtained employment with the Parke family of Dunally House as a gardener circa 1840 and had to anglicise his family name to Foley. |
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The typical suburban gardener won't sustain any real harm from these creatures and may benefit from their presence. |
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Then rent a fully staffed luxury villa in Mallorca that comes with a butler, chef, housekeeper, maid and gardener. |
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He was married to Judy, an apple-cheeked gardener in a straw hat who used to produce awful movies right alongside us. |
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Basically it's the true story of a suburbanite gardener who began to notice that as she gardened on her property, nature began to leave. |
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He is a former auto worker, master gardener, and passionate environmentalist. |
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He is a bachelor so he might want to employ a housekeeper and a gardener, but that's up to him. |
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Instead, the rooftop gardener can putter around doing a little staking and tying here, a little dead-heading of flowers there. |
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A keen gardener got the shock of her life when a freak storm rained 20 crabs down on her. |
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Hom is very fond of English horticulture and commissioned an English landscape gardener to design his garden. |
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His love of animals preceded his love of gardening, and he says a good gardener is automatically a naturalist. |
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Mature specimens develop a thick trunk and stems with leaves and flowers at the top of the plant, often too high for the gardener to enjoy. |
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It is the rare gardener who is not smitten by their array of brilliant colors and graceful forms. |
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Living on top of a hill presents a particular kind of challenge to the home gardener. |
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The first was a bi-polar gardener who often had extended periods of lucidness then relatively short lapses in memory and purpose. |
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I once gardened on a city terrace where my next door neighbour was a superb gardener by the name of Miss Jean Harvey. |
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Even this season that represents the death of the garden is a vital one for our Japanese gardener, while our western gardener sulks until spring. |
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Best of all, picking the flowers prolongs the flowering period, so both the inner gardener and the interior decorator in you will be happy. |
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Tony had been mad keen on archaeology since boyhood and, as his granddad was a market gardener, was already skilled at digging. |
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A York gardener was caught red-handed with a hoard of stolen statues, gnomes and ornaments, magistrates heard. |
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She was a very keen gardener and flowers and plants feature in the Elizabethan needlework and tapestries in the house. |
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She was an inspired gardener who wrote like an angel, but she was elitist to her fingernails. |
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As I approached the gate by man I assumed was the gardener with an old Irish setter trotting at his heels. |
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How can one gardener grow perfect plumerias year after year, while a close neighbor invariably fails? |
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Last year we featured a gardener who was enjoying summer fruit from a mango tree in his garden. |
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Veteran gardener, plantswoman, and native plant enthusiast, she has been growing her collection of more than 21 fern varieties for many years. |
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The gardener is like an early form of a terraformer, as he restores the landscape back to land suited for habitation. |
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They ate bread and margarine and vegetables grown by their unpaid gardener. |
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My grandfather was a very good plantsman and gardener and very knowledgable about trees. |
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Outside, a landscape gardener has retained the original character of this part of the walled garden. |
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The latter-day St. George yearns to rescue the daughter of an absent-minded aristocrat who lives in a castle but who fancies himself a gardener. |
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Baloyi works as a gardener at 84 Dundalk Avenue, the house abutting the intersection. |
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The worms looked good and healthy, and the compost they produced would gladden the heart of any gardener. |
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I heard of one gardener in North Carolina who protected his banana plant in his front yard by surrounding the plant with bags and bags of leaves. |
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If a farmer or gardener starts using mass-marketed seeds, the abandoned heirlooms are likely to become extinct. |
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He was a gardener of note and relished planning the gardens of his acquaintances. |
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In the meantime, Cathy finds solace with her gardener, a widower with a young daughter. |
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As an adventurous gardener, you're probably quite familiar with a number of the beardtongues, a popular group of garden perennials. |
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Penstemons, sometimes called beardtongues, are a fascinating group of plants, little known to the average gardener. |
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If you are a gardener and want to extend your group of friends, why not come to the next meeting? |
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And like the apple or most any fruit, the hip can be used in several ways by the successful gardener. |
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Mr Williams, now a self-employed relief milker and gardener, who lives at Fishguard, expressed his delight at the result. |
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It is where the former snooker superstar, cocaine addict, failed car salesman and landscape gardener, now whiles away his hours. |
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Fortunately ladybirds love to eat greenfly and they can help the gardener to control them without having to use chemical sprays which can also kill helpful insects. |
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Betty is a keen gardener, and she collects clowns, thimbles and candles. |
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He was an active and knowledgeable gardener and he remained a highly competitive bridge player and an excellent raconteur of amusing medical reminiscences. |
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The areas round the house, where the borders are filled with herbaceous plants, were the territory of his wife, Elisabeth, an equally keen gardener, who died last year. |
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As well as being a keen rambler, Mrs Kirby, who lived on her own following the death of her husband, liked to stay fit and was also a keen gardener. |
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She is a keen gardener, bird watcher, photographer and swimmer. |
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He was an ardent fisherman, a keen gardener, and an active naturalist. |
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The keen gardener, who has had an allotment for nearly seven years, said his plot had vegetables ripped up, tools thrown around and specialist plant frames smashed. |
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In that film, McCormack is a devilish child who begins knocking off fellow classmates and even the family gardener when they dare to get in her way. |
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He is a landscape gardener and replanted the gardens and lawns. |
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The former Lakes School pupil, who trained as a landscape gardener, decided on his return from the Antipodes that it was time for a career change. |
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All were killed in the ensuing gun battle, along with a gardener and eight security staffers. |
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A Better Life is about an undocumented Mexican gardener in Los Angeles and his 14-year-old son. |
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He had spent several years as a gravedigger and gardener at a cemetery in Germany before returning to Puglia. |
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I know I'm rushing the season a bit, but what gardener can help it? |
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Chelsea has always been the place for the mad keen gardener to see, try and even buy all the newest and most desirable plants, pots and accessories. |
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An avid gardener, he resides in the hough neighborhood of Cleveland with his wife, Brenda, and their two dogs, Gypsy and Ginger. |
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An avid gardener, he resides in the hough neighborhood of Cleveland with his wife Brenda and their two dogs, Gypsy and Ginger. |
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I'm not the best person, then, to answer a question from a gardener who wants to know what kind of manures and fertilisers I would recommend to the serious organic gardener. |
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I remember we used to buy our fruit and vegetables from a market gardener called Leo, who had a market garden on the south side of what's now right under King's Avenue Bridge. |
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Whether you're a market gardener wanting to extend your season or a family looking to grow more of your own food year-round, a hoophouse is the answer. |
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The allegations go back 30 years or more to the days when he'd not long arrived in the Northern Territory and worked as a market gardener and wildlife officer in Arnhem Land. |
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If you are a market gardener or if you sell products directly to consumers, keep daily or weekly sales totals, along with accurate input and production records. |
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Savier was by far the best market gardener I had visited, ever. |
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To sharpen our vision, Jesus tells a parable about an orchard owner who was frustrated by a barren fig tree and ordered the gardener to cut the tree down. |
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This versatile plant serves the gardener well in beds and borders. |
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At a pitch I could be a tolerable road-sweeper or an inefficient gardener or even a tenth-rate farm hand. |
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He had shown no false modesty about his ability to avoid the gardener. |
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Though my father was an avid gardener, he left that backyard unplanted. |
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Even if what you see is an unwelcome glimpse of grey, if you're a professional gardener, you simply have no choice but to get out of bed and get your sou'wester on. |
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I wondered what on earth a self-proclaimed organic gardener was doing with a stock of resource-squandering, non-returnable containers in the first place. |
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To these votaries, he is variously the perennial storyteller, the kindly sage, the gentle teacher, the maker of auspicious symbols, and the peripatetic gardener of images. |
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A quirky gift for a young gardener might be a carnivorous plant. |
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He has painted churches, received acclaim for his skills as a gardener and groundsman, and has worked as a bus driver, cook, messenger and home help to the needy. |
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Among the six women employed in wage jobs who were not working as domestic servants there was a cleaner, a clerk, a salesperson, a packer, a tea person, and a gardener. |
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We had a big house, and we had a cook, a houseboy and a gardener. |
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The humpbacked gardener emptied the saucepan onto the roots of the flame trees, his favorites, and doused them with water drawn from the river several miles away. |
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That night, on a hunch, he returns with a flashlight, and, proving once again why he was made head gardener, manages to startle a gorging gray horde of sweet-toothed woodmice. |
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The dusty surface of our home wouldn't support any plantlife initially, but biochemistry has helped the gardener grow topsoil over the years, and fertilised the land. |
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With his trademark single flaxen plait snaking lazily down his jumper, Britain's leading organic gardener certainly appears to practise what he preaches. |
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The gardeners wanted to plant a tree to commemorate my time as head gardener there, and the senior forester had said I might choose any tree I liked from the tree nursery. |
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As any gardener will tell you, a primary objective when cultivating the light soil which occurs at this location is to increase its water-retaining properties. |
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The gardener knew the fruiterer very well, for it was to him that he sold, on the proprietor's account, the surplus of the fruit which was grown in the gardens of the estate. |
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A Louisiana slave gardener also built birdhouses from hollowed gourds to attract nesting birds that protected vegetables from insects and other pests. |
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The truth was that Valentino had come to tinseltown via casual employment as a taxi-dancer and gardener although he was authentically Italian. |
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The former gardener has been charged with arson causing death and intentionally lighting a bushfire. |
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Bulbed plants are a good place to start for the virgin gardener and will give flower each year. |
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Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough. |
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The horrified Rabbit orders his gardener, Bill the Lizard, to climb on the roof and go down the chimney. |
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He is older, a gardener by trade, and intends to cross into Texas. |
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A gardener was arrested for cultivating cannabis plants and a rollerblader banned from a shopping precinct. |
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Joseph Paxton was first and foremost a gardener, and his layout of gardens, fountains, terraces and cascades left no doubt as to his ability. |
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Diocletian, the emperor, was so much affected with it that he gave over his sceptre and turned gardener. |
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Cindy Buck got her start as a gardener when a friend gave her and her husband, Rob, a whole gardenful of divided perennials as a wedding present. |
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More unusual plants such as Streptocarpus or Kalanchoes could be the special gift for the special gardener in your life. |
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Frodo fled at this and went ahead, accompanied only by his gardener Samwise Gamgee. |
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Lady Lindsay was a landscape gardener and wife of lifelong British diplomat Sir Ronald Lindsay. |
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A slightly warm breeze came in the window from behind the chick-blinds which the gardener sprayed with water from the hose every fifteen minutes. |
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Sir Cyril Fred Fox was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and his first job, at the age of 16, was as a gardener. |
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After not picking up a shovel for twenty years, she finally saw the beauty in flowers and declared herself a born-again gardener. |
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Heuchera are becoming an increasingly popular choice for the modern gardener. |
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A gardener allegedly ran over another green-fingered worker outside a villa on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah because the man took his job. |
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He hides in a nunnery, pretending to be a gardener, while happily deflowering most of the impressively-bodied holy order. |
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Cheerful shades, stylized renderings and blossoms ranging from demure to exuberant are a lot that would make any gardener smile. |
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Bumbling gardener Mr Growbag, US game-show host Buz Lighthouse and crazy cook Pierre the Chef provided Redcar pupils with a wacky way of learning science. |
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Percy Thrower, the gardener and broadcaster lived in Shrewsbury, where he set up the garden centre near Meole Brace and just down the road from the football club. |
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I don't want to know the intimate details of the latest thing pulled by your boyfriend, trainer, gardener, neighbor, car detailer or stock broker. |
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The garden for Brierley's final project, Goddards in York, was the work of George Dillistone, a gardener who worked with Lutyens and Jekyll at Castle Drogo. |
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At the turn of the 20th century, these were selected and reselected by Silas Cole, the head gardener at Althorp House, to give even bigger and frillier flowers. |
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Whether you're an experienced gardener or just getting started, there are some medicinals that are so easy to grow that they are almost guaranteed to be a success. |
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He also worked briefly as a gardener at Kew in the King's garden. |
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In the summer of 1920, Wittgenstein worked as a gardener for a monastery. |
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And head gardener Roy Simkins said items also grown on the site include salsify, scorzonera, sprouts, calabrese, purple sprouting broccoli, kale and leaf beet. |
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In addition to her love of art and architecture, Peters is a certified yoga and Gyrotonic exercise instructor and an avid outdoorswoman and gardener. |
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He's a big, burly rugby player who works as a landscape gardener. |
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If you're a beginning gardener and have never grown a vegetable in your life before, try greens. You'll find no easier group of vegetables to grow than greens. |
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One of the best is Astrantia 'Roma', it is a sterile form of astrantia so no seed is produced, which benefits the gardener because it keeps on flowering for ages. |
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As the Neils got older, Claudia Pottier became full-time gardener. |
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This entitled him to claim some ofthe running costs of the Fife property,including a gardener and acleaner, and carry out repairsand redecorations paid forby the taxpayer. |
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Crane flies dress in leather jackets As every gardener knows. |
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That is quite the reverse for the gardener who churns under his failed crops in August. In dust, there is no sillion, and that work in hot summer sun is the sheerest of plod. |
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One of his most vehement dissenters was Stephen Switzer, a contemporary landscape gardener and leader of the Private Society of Husbandmen and Planters. |
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A YOUNG gardener who put down roots in Northumberland after working as a horticultural instructor in Sussex has fulfilled his ambition of opening his own plant nursery. |
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