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Flower Power: cut-flower garden tips by Hendy Curzon

3:32pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

Adrienne Curzon has been integrating cut-flower gardens into clients’ designs for many years. This is an area of a garden designated purely for the purpose of growing flowers to cut and display.

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Homes & Gardens: Alex Moss is forging ahead

3:03pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

As far as dream sequences go, Alex Moss found himself being asked to create a fairly nightmarish one.

Win tickets to Grand Designs Live, May 4-12

2:47pm Wednesday 24th April 2013

Grand Designs Live London (May 4-12, ExCel, Docklands) is the UK’s leading contemporary home show, and is hosted by Kevin McCloud.

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Try this bio hotel for a healthy holiday

6:01pm Thursday 18th April 2013

Jon Murray experiences the delights of a bio hotel with a very special ambience in the Alps

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The height of ski-ing luxury

10:25am Thursday 20th December 2012

Anyone looking for the height of luxury — and style — on a ski-ing holiday will be hard pressed to find anything above Altapura in Val Thorens.

Gallop through the years

3:32pm Friday 9th November 2012

Five years ago Oxfordshire celebrated its 1,000th birthday, but I remember thinking at the time —and I hate to carp — that surely counties, like languages, came into existence gradually, rather than with a single event.

How Norman was Edward the Confessor?

2:02pm Wednesday 29th August 2012

How Norman was the saint and king, Edward the Confessor, born in Islip in about 1005, and now regarded as one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings? Answer: very. He left England for Normandy when he was only eight years old, and did not return for 28 years — apart from a short visit in 1036, following the death of his step-father King Canute of Denmark and England. Then he reappeared here in 1041, the year before he became King of England.

Early advocate of a federal Europe

2:59pm Wednesday 22nd August 2012

I suppose many of us cannot cross Folly Bridge without a nod and a smile towards the sign proclaiming the Salters company.

Lambert Simnel, a counterfeit king

1:00pm Wednesday 15th August 2012

Once upon a time a good-looking Oxford youth, the son of a carpenter, was taken away from his home city and crowned King of England by an archbishop.